Buddhist Philosophy in India and Ceylon c3: Contents

Buddhist Philosophy in India and Ceylon c3

Language: English

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| I. THE PERSONALITY AND DOCTRINES OF THE BUDDHA | 13 |
| 1. The Problem and the Sources | 13 |
| 2. The Conclusions attainable | 25 |
| II. THE SOURCES AND LIMITS OF KNOWLEDGE | 33 |
| 1. Authority, Intuition, and Reason | 33 |
| 2. Agnosticism | 39 |
| III. THE FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTER OF BEING | 47 |
| 1. Idealism, Negativism, or Realism | 47 |
| 2. The Impermanence and Misery of Existence | 56 |
| 3. The Absolute and Nirvāṇa | 61 |
| 4. The Conception of Dhamma or the Norm | 68 |
| IV. THE PHILOSOPHY OF SPIRIT AND NATURE | 75 |
| 1. The Negation of the Self | 75 |
| 2. Personalist Doctrines | 81 |
| 3. The Empirical Self and the Process of Consciousness | 84 |
| 4. Matter and Spirit in the Universe | 92 |
| V. THE DOCTRINE OF CAUSATION AND THE ACT | 96 |
| 1. Causation | 96 |
| 2. The Development of the Chain of Causation | 97 |
| 3. The Links of the Chain | 99 |
| 4. The Interpretation of the Chain | 105 |
| 5. The Significance of the Chain | 109 |
| 6. The Breaking of the Chain | 111 |
| 7. Causation in Nature | 112 |
| 8. The Doctrine of the Act | 113 |
| VI. THE PATH OF SALVATION, THE SAINT, AND THE BUDDHA | 115 |
| 1. The Path of Salvation | 115 |
| 2. The Forms of Meditation | 122 |
| 3. Intuition and Nirvāṇa | 128 |
| 4. The Saint and the Buddha | 130 |
| VII. THE PLACE OF BUDDHISM IN EARLY INDIAN THOUGHT | 135 |
| 1. Early Indian Materialism, Fatalism, and Agnosticism | 135 |
| 2. Buddhism and the Beginnings of the Sāṃkhya | 138 |
| 3. Buddhism and Yoga | 143 |
| 4. The Original Element in Buddhism | 146 |

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PART II. DEVELOPMENTS IN THE HĪNAYĀNA

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1. The Traditional Lists . . . . . . . . 148
2. The Vibhajyavādins . . . . . . . . 152
3. Sarvāstivādins, Vaibhāṣikas, and Sautrāntikas . . . 153
4. Precursors of the Mahāyāna . . . . . . 156

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IX. THE DOCTRINE OF REALITY . . . . . . . 160
1. Realism . . . . . . . . . . . 160
2. The Nature of Time and Space . . . . . . 163
3. The Ego as a Series . . . . . . . . 169
4. The Doctrine of Causation . . . . . . . 176
5. The Chain of Causation, Internal and External . . 179
6. The Later Doctrine of Momentariness and Causal Efficiency 181
7. Vedānta Criticisms of Realism . . . . . . 184

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X. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS . . . . 187
1. The Abhidhamma Piṭaka . . . . . . . 187
2. The Milindapañha . . . . . . . . 191
3. Buddhaghosa and the Sarvāstivādin Schools . . . 195
4. The Classifications of Phenomena . . . . . 200

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XI. THE THEORY OF ACTION AND BUDDHOLOGY . . . 203
1. The Mechanism of the Act . . . . . . 203
2. The Mode of Transmigration . . . . . . 207
3. The Nature of the Buddha . . . . . . 208
4. The Perfections of the Saint . . . . . . 212
5. Nirvāṇa as the Unconditioned . . . . . . 214

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PART III. THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE MAHĀYĀNA

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XII. MAHĀYĀNA ORIGINS AND AUTHORITIES . . . . 216
1. The Origin of the Mahāyāna . . . . . . 216
2. The Literature . . . . . . . . . 222

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XIII. THE NEGATIVISM OF THE MADHYAMAKA . . . 235
1. The Doctrine of Knowledge . . . . . . 235
2. The Doctrine of Negativism and the Void . . . 237

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XIV. THE IDEALISTIC NEGATIVISM OF THE VIJÑĀNAVĀDA 242
1. The Doctrine of Knowledge . . . . . . 242
2. Idealism and the Void . . . . . . . 244 1. Suchness as the Absolute . . . . . . . . 252
2. Cosmic and Individual Consciousness . . . . . . 256
3. Nirvāṇa as the Absolute . . . . . . . . 257
4. The Pre-eminence of the Mahāyāna . . . . . . 259
5. Vedānta and Mahāyāna . . . . . . . . . 260

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XVI. THE BUDDHIST TRIKĀYA . . . . . . . . . 267
1. The Dharmakāya, Body of the Law . . . . . . 267
2. The Sambhogakāya, Body of Bliss . . . . . . 269
3. The Nirmāṇakāya, Magic Body . . . . . . . 271

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XVII. THE DOCTRINE OF SALVATION, BODHISATTVAS, AND BUDDHAS . . . 273
1. The Problem of Salvation . . . . . . . . 273
2. The Equipment of Knowledge . . . . . . . 275
3. The Equipment of Merit . . . . . . . . 277
4. The Virtue of Generosity or Compassion . . . . . 279
5. Devotion and the Transfer of Merit . . . . . . 283
6. The Doctrine of the Act and the Causal Series . . . . 286
7. The Career of the Bodhisattva . . . . . . . 287
8. Defects of the New Ideal . . . . . . . . 295
9. The Buddhas . . . . . . . . . . 298

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PART IV. BUDDHIST LOGIC

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XVIII. THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF BUDDHIST LOGIC 303
1. Logic in the Hīnayāna . . . . . . . . 303
2. Dignāga . . . . . . . . . . . 305
3. Dharmakīrti's Doctrine of Perception and Knowledge . . . 308
4. Dharmakīrti's Doctrine of Inference . . . . . . 311
5. Controversies with the Nyāya . . . . . . . 313

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ENGLISH INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . 320