Buddhist Philosophy in India and Ceylon c3.2

c3.2

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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 |