| Description |
322 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Teaching of the Elders / I. B. Horner -- Samgha -- Order of Monks and Nuns -- Skill in Means -- Arahants -- Buddhist Apocalypse -- Dhamma -- Five Faculties Collectively -- Five Faculties Separately -- Conditioned Genesis Collectively -- Conditioned Genesis Separately -- Object of Wisdom -- Buddha and Tathagata -- Pt. 2. Mahayana / Edward Conze -- Basic Notions -- Criticism of the Hinayana Position -- Bodhisattva -- Six Perfections -- Buddha -- New Wisdom School -- Perfection of Wisdom -- Rahulabhadra -- Elusiveness of Perfect Wisdom -- Doctrine of Perfect Wisdom -- Emptiness -- Buddhism of Faith -- Five Cardinal Virtues and the Definition of Faith -- Acts and Rewards of Devotion -- Objects of Devotion -- Pure Land -- Yogacarins -- Mind-Only -- Twofold Egolessness and Emptiness -- Irreality of the World -- Buddha as the Basis of All -- Pt. 3. Tantras / David Snellgrove -- Tantras -- Cleansing of Thought -- Supreme Enlightenment -- Saraha's Treasury of Songs -- Attainment of the Realization of Wisdom and Means -- Fivefold Manifestation -- Evocation of Prajnaparamita -- Mandala Conceived Within -- Story of Tanti -- Mila Repa and the Novices. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 307-310. |
| Subject |
Buddhism -- Sacred books.
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| Indexed Term |
Buddhism Scriptures |
| Added Author |
Conze, Edward, 1904-1979.
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| ISBN |
1851681078 paperback £9.95 : Formerly CIP |
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