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# Buddhist Philosophy in India and Ceylon

Canon and its doctrines, the Buddha, Abhidharma, Theravāda in Ceylon, Sarvāstivāda, Mahāyāna origins, Mādhyamika and Yogācāra.

- **Language:** English
- **Date:** 1879–1944 CE
- **Author:** [Arthur Berriedale Keith](https://indike.org/pramana/person/keith)
- **Extent:** 1,456 passages, 121,363 words
- **Text:** complete digital text
- **Source:** archive.org · Oxford: Clarendon Press 1923; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and sections by Gemini… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (Arthur Berriedale Keith †1944); published before 1931:…

## Contents

- [c1 Front matter](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1923.c1) — 20 parts
- [c2 Preface](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1923.c2) — 7 parts
- [c3 Contents](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1923.c3) — 16 parts
- [c4 Abbreviations](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1923.c4) — 46 parts
- [c5 Part I. Buddhism in the Pali Canon](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1923.c5)
- [c6 Chapter I. The Personality and Doctrines of the Buddha](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1923.c6) — 2 parts
- [c7 Chapter II. The Sources and Limits of Knowledge](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1923.c7) — 2 parts
- [c8 Chapter III. The Fundamental Character of Being](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1923.c8) — 4 parts
- [c9 Chapter IV. The Philosophy of Spirit and Nature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1923.c9) — 4 parts
- [c10 Chapter V. The Doctrine of Causation and the Act](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1923.c10) — 8 parts
- [c11 Chapter VI. The Path of Salvation, the Saint, and the Buddha](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1923.c11) — 4 parts
- [c12 Chapter VII. The Place of Buddhism in Early Indian Thought](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1923.c12) — 4 parts
- [c13 Part II. Developments in the Hīnayāna](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1923.c13)
- [c14 Chapter VIII. The Schools of the Hīnayāna](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1923.c14) — 4 parts
- [c15 Chapter IX. The Doctrine of Reality](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1923.c15) — 6 parts
- [c16 Chapter X. The Psychology of Consciousness](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1923.c16) — 4 parts
- [c17 Chapter XI. The Theory of Action and Buddhology](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1923.c17) — 5 parts
- [c18 Part III. The Philosophy of the Mahāyāna](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1923.c18)
- [c19 Chapter XII. Mahāyāna Origins and Authorities](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1923.c19) — 2 parts
- [c20 Chapter XIII. The Negativism of the Madhyamaka](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1923.c20) — 2 parts
- [c21 Chapter XIV. The Idealistic Negativism of the Vijñānavāda](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1923.c21) — 2 parts
- [c22 Chapter XV. The Doctrine of the Absolute in Buddhism and the Vedānta](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1923.c22) — 5 parts
- [c23 Chapter XVI. The Buddhist Trikāya](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1923.c23) — 3 parts
- [c24 Chapter XVII. The Doctrine of Salvation, Bodhisattvas, and Buddhas](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1923.c24) — 9 parts
- [c25 Part IV. Buddhist Logic](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1923.c25)
- [c26 Chapter XVIII. The Origin and Development of Buddhist Logic](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1923.c26) — 4 parts
- [c27 English Index](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1923.c27) — 45 parts
- [c28 Sanskrit Index](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1923.c28) — 48 parts

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