| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 333 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
OPUS.
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| Note |
"Opus"--Cover. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-318) and index. |
| Contents |
INTRODUCTION -- 1. BUDDHA: THE STORY OF THE AWAKENED ONE -- Historical Buddha -- Legend of the Buddha -- Nature of a buddha -- 2. WORD OF THE BUDDHA: BUDDHIST SCRIPTURES AND SCHOOLS -- Dharma: texts, practice, and realization -- First recitation of scriptures -- Sūtra and Abhidharma -- Origin of the ancient Buddhist schools -- Mahāyāna sūtras -- 3. FOUR TRUTHS: THE DISEASE, THE CAUSE, THE CURE, THE MEDICINE -- Orientation of the Buddha's teaching -- Disease of suffering -- Origin of suffering: attachment, aversion, and delusion -- Cessation of suffering: nirvāṇa -- Way leading to the cessation of suffering -- 4. BUDDHIST COMMUNITY: MONKS, NUNS, AND LAY FOLLOWERS -- Buddha's followers and the origin of the Buddhist order -- Ordination and the Buddhist monastic ideal -- Underlying concerns of the Vinaya -- From wandering to settled life -- Spiritual life -- Lay community -- Spiro's schema: apotropaic, kammatic, and nibbanic Buddhism -- 5. BUDDHIST COSMOS: THE THRICE-THOUSANDFOLD WORLD -- Of space and time: world-systems -- Cosmology and psychology: macrocosm and microcosm -- Cosmology, folk religion, and modern science -- 6. No SELF: PERSONAL CONTINUITY AND DEPENDENT ARISING -- Buddhist critique of self as unchanging -- Problem of personal continuity -- Ignorance, attachment, and views of the self -- Elaboration of the teaching of dependent arising -- Did the Buddha deny the existence of the self? -- 7. BUDDHISM PATH: THE WAY OF CALM AND INSIGHT -- Introductory remarks -- Role of faith -- Good conduct -- Practice of calm meditation -- Stages of insight meditation -- Relationship of calm and insight -- 8. ABHIDHARMA: THE HIGHER TEACHING -- Stories, legends, texts, and authors -- Abhidharma as a system of Buddhist thought -- Consciousness process, karma, and rebirth -- Some Abhidharma problems -- 9. MAHĀYĀNA: THE GREAT VEHICLE -- Beginnings of the Mahāyāna -- Vehicle of the bodhisattva -- Transcendent buddhas -- Emptiness and the 'perfection of wisdom' -- Nāgārjuna and the 'middle' (Madhyamaka) school -- 'Ideas only' (vijñapti-mātra) and the Yogācāra -- Tathāgatagarbha -- 10. EVOLVING TRADITIONS OF BUDDHISM: SOUTH, EAST, NORTH, AND WEST -- Theravāda Buddhism in Sri Lanka and South-East Asia: Southern Buddhism -- China, Korea, and Japan: East Asian Buddhism -- Tibet and Mongolia: Northern Buddhism -- A final note: Buddhism in the West. |
| Summary |
Buddhism is a vast and complex religious and philosophical tradition with a history that stretches over 2,500 years, and which is now followed by around 115 million people. In this introduction to the foundations of Buddhism, Rupert Gethin concentrates on the ideas and practices which constitute the common heritage of the different traditions of Buddhism (Thervada, Tibetan, and Eastern) which exist in the world today. From the narrative of the story of the Buddha, throughdiscussions of aspects such as textual traditions, the framework of the Four Noble Truths, the interaction between the monas. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Buddhism.
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Buddhism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gethin, Rupert. Foundations of Buddhism. Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998 0192892231 (DLC) 98012246 (OCoLC)38392391 |
| ISBN |
9780191587894 (electronic book) |
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0191587893 (electronic book) |
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9780585111582 (electronic book) |
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0585111588 (electronic book) |
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9780192892232 (print) |
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0192892231 (print) |
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