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Buddha and the Gospel of Buddhism (Classic Reprint)
Author Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish
Date2010.06.09
Pages458
PublisherForgotten Books
Publisher Url http://www.forgottenbooks.org/
LocationCharleston, SC, US [查爾斯頓, 南卡羅來納州, 美國]
Content type工具書=Reference Book
Language英文=English
AbstractPART I : THE LIFE OF THE BUDDHA I-lis EiY!lt THE name Buddha, ' the Knower,' 'the Enlightened,' 'the Vake,' is the appellation by which the wandering preaching friar Gautama became best known to his disciples. Of this man we are able to say with some certainty that he was born in the year 563 B.C. and died in 483 B.C. He was the heir of a ruling house of the Sakyas, vhose little kingdom, a rich irrigated plain between the Nepalese foot. hills and the river Rapti, lay to the north.east of the present province of Oudh. To the south.west lay the larger and more powerful kingdom of the Kosalas, to whom the Sakyas owed a nominal allegiance. The Buddha's personal name was Siddhattha, his family name Gautama, his father's name Suddhodana, his mother's Maya. It is only in later legend that Suddhodana is represented as a great king; most likely he was in fact a vealthy knight and land. owner. Siddhattha's mother died seven days after his birth, and her sister...

Table of contents
PART I : THE LIFE OF THE BUDDHA
PART II : THE GOSPEL OF EARLY; BUDDHISM;
I DHAMMA
II SAMSARA AND KAMMA (KARMA)
III BUDDH 1ST HEAVENS AND HOW TO REACH THEM
IV NIBBANA
V ETHICS
VI CONSCIENCE
VII SPIRITUAL EXERCISES
VIII CONSOLATION
IX THE ORDER
X TOLERANCE
XI WOMEN
XII EARLY BUDDHISM AND NATURE
XIII BUDDHIST PESSIMISM
XIV A BUDDHIST EMPEROR
PART III: CONTEMPORARY SYSTEMS
I CONTEMPORARY SYSTEMS; VEDANTA
II SAMKHYA
III HI YOGA
IV BUDDHISM AND BRAHMANISM
PART IV : THE MAHAYANA
I BEGINNINGS OF THE MAHAYANA
II SYSTEM OF THE MAHAYANA
III CH'AN, OR ZEN BUDDHISM
PART V : BUDDHIST ART
I LITERATURE
II SCULPTURE AND PAINTING; BIBLIOGRAPHY; GLOSSARY
ISBN9781440062599 (pbk); 1440062595 (pbk)
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