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Author Conze, Edward, 1904-1979, editor and translator.

Title Buddhist scriptures.

Publication Info. [Harmondsworth, Middlesex] ; [Baltimore] : Penguin Books [1959]

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  294.3 C768BS    Check Shelf
Description 250 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Series The Penguin classics ; L88
Penguin classics ; L88.
Contents The teacher: The Buddha's previous lives. Shakyamuni's meeting with Dipankara ; The bodhisattva and the hungry tigress ; The bodhisattva as a preacher of patience ; Outline of a bodhisattva's progress -- The legend of the Buddha Shakyamuni.
Doctrines: Morality. The five precepts, with Buddhaghosa's commentary ; Rules of monastic restraint ; The monk's life ; Verses from the Sanskrit Dharmapada ; Popular moral Buddhism ; Laymen and monks -- Meditation. The advantages of meditation ; The practice of introversion ; The progressive steps of meditation ; The six types of persons ; The five miraculous powers ; Zen -- Wisdom. The questions of King Milinda ; The heart sutra ; from the Diamond sutra ; Hymn to perfect wisdom / Rahulabhadra ; On believing in mind / Seng-ts'an ; from Treasury of songs / Saraha -- Doctrinal formulas. Faith ; Vigour ; Mindfulness ; Concentration ; Wisdom -- Doctrinal disputes. The personalist controversy ; Mahayana polemics against the Hinayana ; Can there be more than one Buddha at a time? ; The quietist controversy.
Other worlds and future times: Other worlds. The bliss of the heavens ; The torments of the hells ; Life after death and the Book of the dead ; Celestial paradigms : the Pure Land of Amitabha -- Maitreya, the future Buddha.
Subject Buddhism -- Sacred books.
Buddha (The concept) -- Sacred books.
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