The Conception of Buddhist Nirvana (The Conception of Buddhist Nirvāṇa)
Mādhyamika theory of relativity/emptiness and nirvāṇa; translation of Candrakīrti's Prasannapadā chs. 1 and 25 with Sanskrit text of the Madhyamaka-kārikā.
- Language
- English
- Author
- Th. Stcherbatsky
- Extent
- 3,222 passages, 127,266 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · ed. Jaideva Singh, Varanasi: Bharatiya Vidya Prakashan 1968 (orig. Leningrad: Academy of Sciences 1927); scan… · In copyright (Th. Stcherbatsky †1942); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link to that…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 15 parts
- c2 Preface — 10 parts
- c3 Contents — 8 parts
- c4 Introduction — 15 parts
- c5 The Conception of Buddhist Nirvana: Analysis of Contents — 20 parts
- c6 A Treatise on Relativity by Nāgārjuna: Prefatory — 51 parts
- c7 Chapter XXV. Examination of Nirvāna — 11 parts
- c8 II Buddhism and Yoga — 66 parts
- c9 III. Mystic Intuition (Yoga-Pratyakṣa) — 23 parts
- c10 IV. Buddha's Belief in Personal Immortality — 6 parts
- c11 V. Was Buddha an Agnostic? — 11 parts
- c12 VI. The Position of the Later Schools of the Hīnayāna — 12 parts
- c13 VII The Double Character of the Absolute — 8 parts
- c14 VIII. The Vaibhāsikas — 14 parts
- c15 IX The Sautrāntikas — 8 parts
- c16 X. The Yogācāras — 35 parts
- c17 XI The Mādhyamikas — 17 parts
- c18 XII The Doctrine of Causality in the Hinayāna — 7 parts
- c19 XIII This Doctrine Modified in Mahāyāna — 5 parts
- c20 XIV The Doctrine of Relativity — 10 parts
- c21 XV The Real Eternal Buddha Cognised in Mystic Intuition — 22 parts
- c22 XVI The New Conception of Nirvāna — 25 parts
- c23 XVII Is Relativity Itself Relative ? Condemnation of All Logic for the Cognition of the Absolute — 11 parts
- c24 XIX. Parallel Developments in Buddhism and Brahmanism — 1 part
- c25 XIX. European Parallels — 11 parts
- c26 XX. The Position of Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika — 35 parts
- c27 XX Conclusion — 11 parts
- c28 Appendix: A Treatise on Relativity by Nāgārjuna — 6 parts
- c29 The Clearworded (Prasannapadā): A Comment upon Nāgārjuna’s Treatise on Relativity by Candrakīrti — 6 parts
- c30 नागार्जुनोयं मध्यमकशास्त्रम् । — 376 parts
- c31 Index of Samśkrit & Pāli Words — 49 parts
- c32 Index of Proper Names — 12 parts
- c33 Subjects — 85 parts
- c34 Technical Terms — 185 parts