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Tables of Contents for The Vision of the Buddha
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
6
2
The Early Days of the Buddha
8
10
The birth of the future Buddha
10
2
The Four Sights
12
2
Homeless wandering
14
2
Karma and samsara
16
2
The Enlightenment
18
14
The struggle for enlightenment
20
2
Recollection of past lives
22
2
The Buddha's enlightenment
24
2
The Middle Way
26
2
The Three Characteristics of Existence
28
2
The Law of Causality
30
2
From Enlightenment to Death
32
20
After the enlightenment
34
2
The social and religious context
36
2
Jains and Buddhists
38
2
The beginnings of the religious community
40
2
Accounts of the Buddha's lifetime
42
2
Buddhist meditation
44
4
The Buddha and the supernatural
48
2
The last days of the Buddha
50
2
Early Indian and Mahayana Buddhism
52
14
After the Buddha's parinirvana
54
2
Buddhism in society
56
2
The emperor Ashoka
58
2
The growth of Mahayana
60
4
The perfection of wisdom
64
2
Theravada or Southern Buddhism
66
12
Buddhism is established in Sri Lanka
68
2
Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka
70
2
The spread of Theravada
72
2
Monks and laity in Theravada Buddhism
74
2
Buddhist monuments of southeast Asia
76
2
Buddhism in China
78
20
The eastward spread of Buddhism
80
2
Confucianism
82
2
Taoism
84
2
The beginnings of Chinese Buddhism
86
2
The period of domestication in China
88
2
The T'ien-t'ai and Flower Garland schools
90
2
The Pure Land sect
92
2
Ch'an: the school of meditation
94
4
Buddhism in Japan
98
26
Shinto: the way of the gods
100
2
Chinese influence in the Nara period
102
2
Tendai Buddhism
104
2
Kukai's Shingon school
106
2
Pure Land in Japan
108
2
Nichiren
110
2
The beginnings of Zen
112
2
Rinzai Zen: the study of koans
114
2
Soto Zen: Dogen
116
2
Soto Zen: Dogen's practice
118
2
Zen and the arts
120
4
Buddhism in Tibet
124
24
Pre-Buddhist Tibet and the Bon religion
126
2
Monks and lamas
128
2
Tibetan monastic schools
130
2
The Buddhist cosmos
132
2
Tantric Buddhism
134
4
Vajrayana
138
2
Tantric deities
140
2
Mandalas and yantras
142
4
Symbols of the mandala
146
2
Buddhism Comes to the West
148
12
The early European linguists
150
2
Nineteenth-century Orientalism
152
2
Buddhism in modern Europe
154
2
North American mystics
156
2
Buddhism in modern North America
158
2
Documentary Reference
160
10
Selected Buddhist sites
161
5
Four great modern masters
166
2
Map of Asia
168
2
Useful addresses
170
2
Glossary
172
2
Further reading
174
1
Index
175
8
Picture credits
183