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Author : Kakmuk (Bhikkhu)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 8991743374
Author : Frank Hoffman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 0615639208
SUMMARY OF INTRODUCTION TO EARLY BUDDHISM Introduction to Early Buddhism by Frank J. Hoffman is a work designed for introducing students to the central philosophical themes and issues in early Buddhism. The book is divided topically into chapters that give an overview of the life of the Buddha, Buddhism and Buddhist texts, Logic, Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics. Each of the chapters focus on a selection of Pali sutta (discourses) that explain the Buddhist position on the topic of that chapter. Buddhism is explained in its own terms through the text summaries themselves. The chapter on Logic, Truth, and Method focuses on a discussion of right communication giving attention to discourses that explain non-contradiction, the importance of dhamma or truth, and the method of non-contention. The chapter on Epistemology introduces the Buddhist views on what constitutes right knowledge by focusing on the noble way to enlightenment as opposed to ignoble living, threefold knowledge, speculative questions, mastering fear, and achieving freedom of mind through meditation. The chapter on Buddhist Ethics focuses on skillful and unskillful actions affecting rebirth rather than caste, methods of arriving at perfect view, and social equality. The chapter on Metaphysics includes summaries of discourses summarized that involve a discussion of rebirth, the middle way, impermanence and destruction of defilements, the parable of the raft, knowledge of marvelous rebirths, impermanence and release from suffering, and the conversion of a murderer. Each chapter concludes with a series of discussion questions to help the student better understand the contents of the book and promote their own philosophical journey. A glossary of important Pali Buddhist terms is provided, along with an index.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603840026
Twenty discourses from the Pali Canon--including those most essential to the study and teaching of early Buddhism--are provided in fresh translations, accompanied by introductions that highlight the main themes and set the ideas presented in the context of wider philosophical and religious issues. Taken together, these fascinating works give an account of Buddhist teachings directly from the earliest primary sources. In his General Introduction, John J. Holder discusses the structure and language of the Pali Canon--its importance within the Buddhist tradition and the historical context in which it developed--and gives an overview of the basic doctrines of early Buddhism.
Author : Bhikkhu Kakmuk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0578623064
Early Buddhism, which contains theBuddha's direct teaching, is the rootand the beginning of Buddhism.This introductory book contains asystematic and clear explanation ofthe core teaching of Early Buddhism.It is based on P?li Nik?yas of Southern Theravada Buddhism,which has transmitted the Buddha's authentic teaching for2,600 years.Bhikkhu Kakmuk, a faculty member of Center for EarlyBuddhist Studies explains that to understand Buddhism,one must know the five aggregates, the 12 sense bases,the 18 elements, the Four Noble Truths, the 12 links ofdependent origination, the 37 requisites of enlightenment,samatha, vipassan?, and the threefold training of morality,concentration, and wisdom. Here these subjects areorganized into a useful guide in learning Early Buddhism.
Author : Frank J. Hoffman
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8120819276
Corrected Edition
Author : Peter Harvey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521859424
Extensively revised and updated, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of Buddhism in Asia and the West.
Author : Chris Pauling
Publisher : Windhorse Publications
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781907314193
Introducing Buddhism is a lively and engaging guide for Westerners who want to learn more about Buddhism as a path of spiritual growth. Written in a clear, informal style, it explains the essential teachings and practices on which all mainstream Buddhists can agree, and shows how this ancient wisdom is more than ever relevant to the psychological, social, and spiritual issues concerning men and women in the modern West.
Author : G. A. Somaratne
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789811919145
The book offers a comprehensive discussion on the Buddhist liberation and meditation concepts based on the original Pāli scriptures of Theravāda Buddhism. It interprets the early Buddhist soteriology critically and sympathetically by interweaving the Buddhological and the Buddhistic debates on understanding the Buddha’s original teaching on bondage, liberation, liberated ones, and meditation. It showcases the liberal and pluralistic character of early Buddhist soteriology by interpreting it psychologically through the lens of the Buddha's recognition of two sets of psychosomatic and epistemic mental configurations active in the human mind. It shows how this dualism pervades the early Buddhist soteriology by pointing out its recognition of craving and ignorance as two causes of suffering; the emancipation of mind and the emancipation by wisdom as two constituents of liberation; and the meditative appeasing and the meditative watching as two methods to attain that liberation. It demonstrates how the Buddha structures a gradual path to liberation enabling individuals to experience many temporary and irreversible secondary goals along the way and allowing them to join the path at any stage appropriate to their temperaments and advancement at a given time and space. The book therefore serves the students and scholars of Buddhism, religion, and psychology to obtain a comprehensive and insightful introduction to Buddhist soteriology.
Author : Sue Hamilton-Blyth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136843006
New interpretations of the central teachings of early Buddhism, mainly the relationship between identity and perception in early Buddhism.
Author : Y. Karunadasa
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781614294689
A clear, elegant clarification of the basic teachings of early Buddhism, ideal for both general readers and scholars. Discover the birth of Buddhism and the essentials of Buddhist teachings with this clear, comprehensive explanation of early Buddhism’s key doctrines. You’ll come away with: insight into the beginning of Buddhism and the significance of its core beliefs—dependent arising, non-self, moral life, the diagnosis of the human condition, the critique of theoretical views, and the nature of Nibbana; a lucid understanding of the Buddha’s challenge to the concept of the subject as a self-entity and the reality of both the subject and object, perceiver and perceived, as a dynamic process; a grasp of early Buddhist teachings as representing a middle position (equally aloof from spiritual eternalism and materialist annihilation) and a middle path (equally aloof from self-mortification and sensual indulgence); and the experience of the Buddha’s teachings on attaining liberation as comprehensible, sensible, and something we can make part of our own practice.
Author : Arthur Lillie
Publisher : Trübner & Company
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Buddha (The concept).
ISBN : OXFORD:600018912
Author : Eugène Burnouf
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226081250
The most influential work on Buddhism to be published in the nineteenth century, Introduction à l’histoire du Buddhisme indien, by the great French scholar of Sanskrit Eugène Burnouf, set the course for the academic study of Buddhism—and Indian Buddhism in particular—for the next hundred years. First published in 1844, the masterwork was read by some of the most important thinkers of the time, including Schopenhauer and Nietzsche in Germany and Emerson and Thoreau in America. Katia Buffetrille and Donald S. Lopez Jr.’s expert English translation, Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism, provides a clear view of how the religion was understood in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Burnouf was an impeccable scholar, and his vision, especially of the Buddha, continues to profoundly shape our modern understanding of Buddhism. In reintroducing Burnouf to a new generation of Buddhologists, Buffetrille and Lopez have revived a seminal text in the history of Orientalism.
Author : Mun-keat Choong
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 8120816498
This book investingates the teachings of emptiness in early Buddhism, as recorded in the Pali and Chinese version of the early Buddhist canon. In general, the findig is that these two version,although differently worded, record in common that the teaching of the historical Buddha as connected with emptiness. The general reader, with little or no prior knowledge of Buddhism, can discover in this book how early Buddhism provides a vision and a method to help in overcoming the ills of the mind.
Author : Madura Venkata Ram Kumar Ratnam
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 8171416535
This book on Dukkha: Suffering in Early Buddhism gives an introduction to the concept of suffering, deals with the analysis of suffering in non-Buddhist system, examples the components of suffering in early Buddhism, identifies the origin of suffering and discusses about deliverance. Contents: Introduction, Duhkha in Indian Philosophy, Conception of Dukkha in Early Buddhism, Origin of Dukkha, Means of Deliverance from Dukkha, Nibbana, Conclusions.
Author : Paul Williams
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 0415332281
This eight-volume set brings together seminal papers in Buddhist studies from a vast range of academic disciplines published over the last forty years. With a new introduction by the editor, this collection is a unique and unrivalled research resource for both student and scholar. Coverage includes: - Buddhist origins; early history of Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia - early Buddhist Schools and Doctrinal History; Theravada Doctrine - the Origins and nature of Mahayana Buddhism; some Mahayana religious topics - Abhidharma and Madhyamaka - Yogacara, the Epistemological tradition, and Tathagatagarbha - Tantric Buddhism (Including China and Japan); Buddhism in Nepal and Tibet - Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia, and - Buddhism in China, East Asia, and Japan.
