Editor Affiliations: Former Director, Public Instruction, Bihār and Orissa; Vice-chancellor, Patna University, India.
A collection of historical texts translated from the original Pāli.
目次
GENERAL INTRODUCTION ........... xxi
INTRODUCTORY NOTES ........... xxxvi
Note 1. Rebirth or Transmigration, and the First Sermon; Recurrence or Collective Karma (the word pono-bbhavikā) ........... xxxvi
Note 2. Rebirth and (a) the Conversion Sermons; (b) the Instructions to the First Missioners ........... xxxix a. The Conversion sermons; 'heaven' (the word sagga) ........... xxxix b. The Instructions to the First Missioners; the spirits or gods (the word devatā) ........... xli
Note 3. Rebirth and (a) the 'Three Characteristics'; (b) the Buddha’s Last Words ........... xliii a. The Three Characteristics of Individuality; the word an-attā ........... xliii b. The Last Words of the Buddha; Effort and Free Will ........... xlv
Note 4. Rebirth and the Discourse to Sīha the Jain. The words kiriya-vāda and a-kiriya-vāda; Jainism ........... xlvi
Note 5. Rebirth and (a) The Edicts of Asoka; (b) the Essentials of the Dhamma ........... xlix a. The Edicts of Asoka; the Mauryan Stūpas at Bharhut and Sāñchī ........... xlix b. The Essentials of the Dhamma ........... lii
Note 6. The Buddhist Councils and the Development of the Canon; early Schisms; Hinduization ........... lv
Note 7. Hinduization during Buddha’s lifetime; Devadatta’s Schism ........... lviii
Note 8. Hinduization after Buddha ........... lx a. The Return of the Gods; Spirits ........... lx b. Miracles ........... lxiv c . Māyā, illusion, idealism. Gotama’s teachers; Paticca-samuppāda (Dependent Origination); Hīna-yāna and Mahā-yāna ........... lxvi
Note 9. Hinduizing passages omitted from the texts ........... lxx a. Passages regarding Rebirth ........... lxxi b. Passages regarding Gods and Spirits ........... lxxii i. Sakka ........... lxxii ii. Brahmā Sahampati ........... lxxii iii. Indra and other Gods ........... lxxii iv. Māra ........... lxxii v. The Four Kings, or Guardians, of the Four Regions .......... lxxii vi. Spirits of the earth, the air, the Brahmā-world .......... lxxii vii. Tree-spirits, Nāgas (Serpents), &c. .......... lxxiii c. Passages regarding miracles .......... lxxiii i. By the gods .......... lxxiii ii. By lesser spirits .......... lxxiii iii. By the Buddha .......... lxxiii iv. By the Disciples .......... lxxiii v. By the Buddha's opponents .......... lxxiii d. Passages regarding supernatural knowledge .......... lxxiii e. Passages regarding Māyā (Illusion) .......... lxxiii
Note 10. Parallelism of the Dhamma and Stoicism; two early systems of self-control and mutual service, based upon rationalism and natural law .......... lxxiv
Note 11. Gotama’s Journeys .......... lxxxiii a. The great routes .......... lxxxiii b. Topography of the chief cities .......... lxxxvi 1. Rājagaha .......... lxxxvi 2. Vesāli .......... lxxxix 3. Kapilavatthu .......... xci 4. Sāvatthi .......... xci 5. Kosambi .......... xciii c. Minor towns and villages visited by the Buddha .......... xciv In the kingdom of Magadha .......... xciv In the Angan country .......... xcv Under the Vajjian Confederacy .......... xcvi Among the Mallas .......... xcvi Among the Sakkas .......... xcvi Among the Kolis .......... xcvi Among the Bhaggans .......... xcvii In the Himālayan country north of Kosala .......... xcvii In the Kosalan kingdom .......... xcvii In the Vaṃsa kingdom of Kosambi .......... xcviii In the sub-kingdom of Kāsi .......... xcviii In the lands of the Kuru clan .......... xcviii Among the Sumbhans .......... xcviii Among the Cetis: visits of Elders .......... xcix West of the Jamna: the Matsya and Sūrasena clans, and the kingdom of Avanti .......... xcix
