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Lecture I. Religious Theories in India Before Buddhism Religion, the meaning of the word 1 Value, from the comparative point of view, of the history of the Buddhist religion 6 Theories of God and the Soul, generally 10 The same in India; the Vedas 14 Rise of monotheism, especially in India 19 The Lokāyatas and Jains 24 The Sānkhya system 24 The Sixty-two Heresies 30 Summary of this chapter 36 Importance attached by Buddhist writers to the question of the soul-theory 39 Lecture II. Authorities on which our Knwoledge of Buddhism is Based Interest of the discovery of new literatures 44 First discovery of Pali 46 Prof. Fausböll's Dhammapada 48 The Dictionary 49 The Three Piṭakas 52 The Vinaya, Rules of the Order 54 The Great Nikāyas 58 The Abhidhamma 62 The Miscellaneous Books 65 Quatations from the Songs of the Sisters 73 The Pali Text Society 80 List of the Piṭakas 83 Lecture III. Notes on the Life of the Buddha No ancient biography extant 87 The Pali and Sanskrit poems 88 The Sākya clan 91 The Buddha not a king's son 92 The legends of his birth and childhood 93 The Great Renunciation 96 King Bimbisāra's offer 99 The Teachers 102 Attainment of Nirvana 104 First Sermon 105 Daily life 108 The Buddha and the Brahmins 113 Lecture IV. The Secret of Buddhism Part I. The Signs, the Path, and the Fetters The Ajanta cave fresco of the Wheel 118 Wonders of the Wheel 120 Impermanence 123 Sorrow and individuality 124 Delusions about self or soul 125 Karma 129 Future life 131 The Noble Eightfold Path 135 The Four Noble Truths 136 Modern parallels 140 The Ten Fetters 141 Nirvana 151 Lecture V. The Secret of Buddhism Part II. The Wheel of Life and Arahatship (or Nirvana) Salvation, from what? 153 The Twelve Causes 155 Grasping the cause of rebirth 159 Western parallels 160 Nirvana 162 Poems on 166 The bliss of 171 The longing for it 172 Where it can be got 175 The ideal Recluse 176 Intellectual activity part of ideal Arahatship 181 Suppression of desire not a part of it 182 The Freedom in Arahatship 184 Real basis of the importance of the study of this ideal 186 Lecture VI. Some Notes on the History of Buddhism The various Buddhisms 187 Council of Vesāli 190 Kathā Vatthu 195 The seventeen schools 197 Bodhisatship 199 The Greater Vehicle 204 The Tantra books 207 Theosophy 209 Schopenhauer and Huxley on Buddhism 220 Index 223
