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BURMESE FRESCO REPRESENTING THE BUDDHA WORSHIPED BY A FOREST SATYR AND HIS ATTENDANT.
BUDDHISM IN TRANSLATIONS.
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HARVARD
ORIENTAL SERIES
EDITED
WITH THE CO-OPERATION OF VARIOUS SCHOLARS
BY
CHARLES ROCKWELL LANMAN
Professor of Sanskrit in Harvard University
VOLUME III.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
PUBLISHED BY HARVARD UNIVERSITY
1896
BUDDHISM
IN TRANSLATIONS
BY
HENRY CLARKE WARREN
Of Cambridge, Massachusetts
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
PUBLISHED BY HARVARD UNIVERSITY
1896
Copyright, 1896,
By Harvard University.
University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.
TO
My Friend and Teacher,
CHARLES R. LANMAN,
THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED.
CONTENTS.
Page :
| Abbreviations | Abbreviations | xiii |
| General Introduction | General Introduction | xv |
| CHAPTER I. |||
| THE BUDDHA. |||
| | Introductory Discourse | 1 |
| § 1. | The Story of Sumedha | 5 |
| 2. | A List of former Buddhas | 32 |
| 3. | The Characteristics of a Future Buddha | 33 |
| 4. | The Birth of The Buddha | 38 |
| 5. | The young Gotamid Prince | 48 |
| 6. | The Great Retirement | 56 |
| 7. | The Great Struggle | 67 |
| 8. | The Attainment of Buddhaship | 71 |
| 9. | First Events after the Attainment of Buddhaskip | 83 |
| 10. | The Conversion of Sāriputta and Moggallāna | 87 |
| 11. | The Buddha’s daily Habits | 91 |
| 12. | The Death of The Buddha | 95 |
| CHAPTER II. |||
| SENTIENT EXISTENCE. |||
| | Introductory Discourse | 111 |
| § 13. | Questions which tend not to Edification | 117 |
| 14. | King Milinda and Nāgasena come to an Understanding | 128 |
| 15. | There is no Ego | 129 |
| 16. | All Signs of an Ego are Absent | 146 |
| 17. | No continuous Personal Identity | 148 |
| 18. | The Mind less permanent than the Body | 150 |
| 19. | What is Unity or One? | 153 |
| 20. | Analysis of the Human Being | 155 ​ |
| § 21. | The Composition of the Body | 157 |
| 22. | On getting Angry | 159 |
| 23. | The Origin and Cessation of the Human Being | 159 |
| 24. | Inanimate Nature | 164 |
| 25. | The Middle Doctrine | 165 |
| 26. | Ignorance | 170 |
| 27. | Karma | 179 |
| 28. | Consciousness | 182 |
| 29. | Name and Form | 184 |
| 30. | The Six Organs of Sense | 186 |
| 31. | Contact | 186 |
| 32. | Sensation | 187 |
| 33. | Desire | 187 |
| 34. | Attachment | 189 |
| 35. | Existence | 194 |
| 36. | Birth etc. | 201 |
| 37. | Discussion of Dependent Origination | 202 |
| CHAPTER III. |||
| KARMA AND REBIRTH. |||
| | Introductory Discourse | 209 |
| § 38. | Be a Friend to Yourself | 213 |
| 39. | The cause of Inequality in the World | 214 |
| 40. | Fruitful and barren Karma | 215 |
| 41. | The Death of Moggallāna | 221 |
| 42. | Good and bad Karma | 226 |
| 43. | How to obtain Wealth, Beauty, and Social Position | 228 |
| 44. | The Round of Existence | 232 |
| 45. | Cause of Rebirth | 232 |
| 46. | Is this to be my Last Existence? | 233 |
| 47. | Rebirth is not Transmigration | 234 |
| 48. | Reflections on Existence | 242 |
| 49. | Different kinds of Death | 252 |
| 50. | How Existence in Hell is Possible | 253 |
| 51. | Death’s Messengers | 255 |
| | “The Three Warnings” | 259 |
| 52. | The Ass in the Lion’s Skin | 262 |
| 53. | The devoted Wife | 264 |
| 54. | Friendship | 267 |
| 55. | Virtue is its own Reward | 269 |
| 56. | The Hare-mark in the Moon | 274 ​ |
| CHAPTER IV. |||
| MEDITATION AND NIRVANA. |||
| | Introductory Discourse | 280 |
| § 57. | The Way of Purity | 285 |
| 58. | Concentration | 288 |
| 59. | The Thirty-one Grades of Being | 289 |
| 60. | The Forty Subjects of Meditation | 291 |
| 61. | The Earth-kasina | 293 |
| 62. | Beauty is but Skin-deep | 297 |
| 63. | The Conversion of Animals | 301 |
| 64. | Love for Animals | 302 |
| 65. | The Six High Powers | 303 |
| 66. | Spiritual Law in the Natural World | 306 |
| 67. | Going Further and Faring Worse | 308 |
| 68. | Sāriputta and the Two Demons | 313 |
| 69. | World-cycles | 315 |
| 70. | Wisdom | 330 |
| 71. | The Summum Bonum | 331 |
| 72. | Māra as Plowman | 349 |
| 73. | The Fire-sermon | 351 |
| 74. | The Four Intent Contemplations | 353 |
| 75. | The Attainment of the Paths | 376 |
| 76. | Nirvana to be attained at Death | 380 |
| 77. | The Attainment of Nirvana by Godhika | 380 |
| 78. | The Trance of Cessation | 383 |
| 79. | The Attainment of Nirvana | 389 |
| CHAPTER V. |||
| THE ORDER. |||
| | Introductory Discourse | 392 |
| § 80. | Conduct | 393 |
| 81. | The Admission and Ordination Ceremonies | 393 |
| 82. | The Serpent who wanted to be a Priest | 401 |
| 83. | The Buddhist Confession of Priests | 402 |
| 84. | The Order receive leave to dwell in Houses | 411 |
| 85. | Residence during the Rainy Season | 414 |
| 86. | The Mendicant Ideal | 417 |
| 87. | The Value of Training in Religion | 420 |
| 88. | The colorless Life | 421 |
| 89. | Can the Saint suffer? | 429 |
| 90. | The Body is an open Sore | 423 ​ |
| § 91. | Heaven not the Highest Good | 424 |
| 92. | The Saints Superior to the Gods | 424 |
| 93. | The Anger-eating Demon | 426 |
| 94. | Contentment is Riches | 428 |
| 95. | The Story of a Priest | 430 |
| 96. | The young Stone-Thrower | 432 |
| 97. | “And hate not his father and mother” | 434 |
| 98. | No Buddhist should commit Suicide | 436 |
| 99. | The Admission of Women to the Order | 441 |
| 100. | A Family of Magicians | 448 |
| 101. | The Story of Visākhā | 451 |
| 102. | The Buddhist Apocalypse | 481 |
| APPENDIX. |||
| § 103. | The Five Groups | 487 |
| INDEX | INDEX | 497 |
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