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Tables of Contents for The Foundations of Buddhism
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Tables and Figure
xii
1
List of Maps
xiii
4
A Note on Buddhist Languages
xvii
INTRODUCTION
1
6
1. THE BUDDHA: THE STORY OF THE AWAKENED ONE
7
28
The historical Buddha
7
9
The legend of the Buddha
16
11
The nature of a buddha
27
8
2. THE WORD OF THE BUDDHA: BUDDHIST SCRIPTURES AND SCHOOLS
35
24
Dharma: texts, practice, and realization
35
4
The first recitation of scriptures
39
6
Sutra and Abhidharma
45
4
The origin of the ancient Buddhist schools
49
7
The Mahayana sutras
56
3
3. FOUR TRUTHS: THE DISEASE, THE CAUSE, THE CURE, THE MEDICINE
59
26
The orientation of the Buddha's teaching
59
1
The disease of suffering
60
8
The origin of suffering: attachment, aversion, and delusion
68
6
The cessation of suffering: nirvana
74
5
The way leading to the cessation of suffering
79
6
4. THE BUDDHIST COMMUNITY: MONKS, NUNS, AND LAY FOLLOWERS
85
27
The Buddha's followers and the origin of the Buddhist order
85
2
Ordination and the Buddhist monastic ideal
87
4
The underlying concerns of the Vinaya
91
4
From wandering to settled life
95
6
The spiritual life
101
6
The lay community
107
3
Spiro's schema: apotropaic, kammatic, and nibbanic Buddhism
110
2
5. THE BUDDHIST COSMOS: THE THRICE-THOUSANDFOLD WORLD
112
21
Of space and time: world-systems
112
7
Cosmology and psychology: macrocosm and microcosm
119
7
Cosmology, folk religion, and modern science
126
7
6. No SELF: PERSONAL CONTINUITY AND DEPENDENT ARISING
133
30
The Buddhist critique of self as unchanging
133
7
The problem of personal continuity
140
6
Ignorance, attachment, and views of the self
146
3
The elaboration of the teaching of dependent arising
149
10
Did the Buddha deny the existence of the self?
159
4
7. THE BUDDHISM PATH: THE WAY OF CALM AND INSIGHT
163
39
Introductory remarks
163
2
The role of faith
165
4
Good conduct
169
5
The practice of calm meditation
174
13
The stages of insight meditation
187
11
The relationship of calm and insight
198
4
8. THE ABHIDHARMA: THE HIGHER TEACHING
202
22
Stories, legends, texts, and authors
202
5
The Abhidharma as a system of Buddhist thought
207
8
The consciousness process, karma, and rebirth
215
3
Some Abhidharma problems
218
6
9. THE MAHAYANA: THE GREAT VEHICLE
224
29
The beginnings of the Mahayana
224
2
The vehicle of the bodhisattva
226
5
Transcendent buddhas
231
3
Emptiness and the `perfection of wisdom'
234
3
Nagarjuna and the `middle' (Madhyamaka) school
237
7
`Ideas only' (vijnapti-matra) and the Yogacara
244
6
The Tathagatagarbha
250
3
10. EVOLVING TRADITIONS OF BUDDHISM: SOUTH, EAST, NORTH, AND WEST
253
24
Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka and South-East Asia: Southern Buddhism
253
4
China, Korea, and Japan: East Asian Buddhism
257
9
Tibet and Mongolia: Northern Buddhism
266
7
A final note: Buddhism in the West
273
4
Notes
277
25
Select Bibliography
302
17
Glossary
319
4
Index
323