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ISBN 10:    0191606715
ISBN 13: 978-0191606717
Author: Rupert Gethin

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) that exist in the world today. From the narrative of the story of the Buddha, through discussions of aspects such as textual traditions, the framework of the Four Noble Truths, the interaction between the monastic and lay ways of life, the cosmology of karma and rebirth, and the path of the bodhisattva, this book provides a stimulating introduction to Buddhism as a religion and way of life.
 

The Foundations of Buddhism 1st  Table of contents:

I. THE BUDDHA: THE STORY OF THE AWAKENED ONE

The historical Buddha

The legend of the Buddha

The nature of a buddha

2. THE WORD OF THE BUDDHA: BUDDHIST SCRIPTURES AND SCHOOLS

Dharma: texts, practice, and realization

The first recitation of scriptures

Sutra and Abhidharma

The origin of the ancient Buddhist schools

The Mahāyāna sūtras

3. FOUR TRUTHS: THE DISEASE, THE CAUSE, THE CURE, THE MEDICINE

The orientation of the Buddha’s teaching

The disease of suffering

The origin of suffering: attachment, aversion, and delusion

The cessation of suffering: nirvāṇa

The way leading to the cessation of suffering

4. THE BUDDHIST COMMUNITY: MONKS, NUNS, AND LAY FOLLOWERS

The Buddha’s followers and the origin of the Buddhist order

Ordination and the Buddhist monastic ideal

The underlying concerns of the Vinaya

From wandering to settled life

The spiritual life

The lay community

Spiro’s schema: apotropaic, kammatic, and nibbānic Buddhism

5. THE 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

The Buddhist critique of self as unchanging

The problem of personal continuity

Ignorance, attachment, and views of the self

The elaboration of the teaching of dependent arising

Did the Buddha deny the existence of the self?

7. THE BUDDHISM PATH: THE WAY OF CALM AND INSIGHT

Introductory remarks

The role of faith

Good conduct

The practice of calm meditation

The stages of insight meditation

The relationship of calm and insight

8. THE ABHIDHARMA: THE HIGHER TEACHING

Stories, legends, texts, and authors

The Abhidharma as a system of Buddhist thought

The consciousness process, karma, and rebirth

Some Abhidharma problems

9. THE MAHĀYĀNA: THE GREAT VEHICLE

The beginnings of the Mahāyāna

The vehicle of the bodhisattva

Transcendent buddhas

Emptiness and the ‘perfection of wisdom’

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

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