Indo-Tibetan Buddhism: Indian Buddhists and Their Tibetan Successors

Snellgrove, David (著)

作者

Snellgrove, David (著)

出版日期

1987.12.30

頁次

664

出版者

Serindia Publications

出版地

Channel Islands, England

資料類型

書籍=Book

使用語言

英文=English

附註項

1. Distributed by La Haule Books;
2. Author: David is a Doctor of Literature in the University of Cambridge, Professor Emeritus of the University of London and a Fellow of the British Academy

關鍵詞

藏傳佛教=西藏佛教=Tibetan Buddhism; 印度佛教=Indian Buddhism

Abbreviations
List of Plates
Maps
Preface
Notes on Transcription
I. Origins in India
1.The Rediscovery of India Buddhism
2.Sakyamuni：Buddha of The Present World-Age
3.The Concepts of Samsara and Nirvana
a.The Nature of Sakyamuni's Enlightenment
b.The Doctrine of NonSelf and The Dharma Theory
c.The Relativity of Philosophical Explanations
4.The Preemience of Buddhahood
a.Sakyamuni as Buddha and Man
b.The Cult of Relics
5.The Buddhist Community
II. Later Development In India
1.Buddhism Becomes A Pan-Asian Religion
2.The Buddha Image
a.The Earliest Representations in Human Form
b.Can There Be More Than One Buddha At The Same Time?
3.Boddhisattvas
a.Their Function as Quasi-Celestial Beneficent Beings
b.The Career of a Boddhisattva as a Human Aspiration
c.An Evaluation of a Boddhisattva' Skill in Means (upayakausalya)
d.Boddhisattva in Paradise
e.All Buddhas and Boddhisattvas essentially one and the same
4.The Three Turnings of the Wheel of the Doctrine
a.The First Turning
b.The Second Turning
c.The Third Turning
d.The Theory of Buddha-folds
e.The Theory of Buddha-embryo
f.The Theory of Buddha-bodies
III. Tantric Buddhism
1.Connections With The More Conventional Mahayana
2.The Vajrayana as a New and Distinct "Way"
3.Vajrayana (alias Vajradhara) becomes preeminent
4.Magical Formulas
5.The Votaries of Tantras
6.Various Kinds of Tantras
a.Tantras Relatable to Mahayana Sutras
b.Tantras With Non-Buddhist Associations
7.Tantric Feasts
8.The Argument for Implicit Interpretations
9.The Importance of One's Chosen Teacher
10.The later Amalgamation and Promulgation of Tantric Teachings
11.Buddha-Families
12.The Mandala
13.Initiations and Consecrations
a.Initiation As Dictinct From "Orientaion"
b.The "Descent" of Absolute Wisdom
c.The Use of Jars In Consecration Ceremonies
d.The Order of Consecrations in Various Classes of Tantras
e.The Power of Coercion
f.The Process of Self-Consecration
14.Further Consecrations
a.Interpretations of The Higher Consecrations, Scholastic，Lyrical and Ritual
b.Scholastic Equations in Sets of Four
c.The Higher Consecrations according to the Tradition of Hevajra
d.Consecration as a Psychological Process
e.References to Higher Consecrations in Yoga Tantras
f.The Problem of Textual Obscurity
15.Special Concepts of Tantric Yogins
a.Buddhahood as Twofold rather Than Fivefold
b.Wisdom and Means
c.The Cult of Human Body
d.The Coalescence of all concepts through the practice of Tantric Yoga
IV.Buddhist Communities In India And Beyond
1.Traces of Buddhism In India
a.Continuity in Buddhist Monastic Life
b.The Apparent Lateness of Iconographic of Representation in Relationship With The Relevant texts
2.Traces of Buddhism In Central Asia
a.The Historical Background
b.Khotan
c.Other Important Sites
d.The Tibetan Occupation
3.Buddhism in Nepal
a.The Early Period
b.The Later Period
V.The Conversion of Tibet
1.Political and Social Factors
a.The Ruler of Tibet
b.The Cultural Effects of Territorial Expansion
c.Early Situations Leading to The Later Emergence of rNying-ma-pas and Bonpos
d.Royal Inscriptions and Edicts
2. Religious Factors
a.Factions and Disputes
b.Varieties of Teaching
c.Early Tibetan Tantras
d.Freedom from Restraint
3.The Combination of Politics and Religion
a.The Rulers of Western Tibet
b.The Founding of Religious Order
c.Final Reflections

ISBN

0906026148

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