The Buddhist Tradition

Table of Contents

PREFACE

EXPLANATORY NOTE

INTRODUCTION

BUDDHISM IN INDIA

1 EARLY BUDDHISM [ALB]

Historical Setting. The Rise of Buddhism - Essentials of Theravada Buddhism - The Four Noble Truths - The Na-ture of Consciousness and the Chain of Causation- False Doctrines About the Soul - The Simile of the Chariot -Change and Identity - The Process of Rebirth – Karma - -Right Mindfulness - The Last Instructions of the Bud-dha - The Buddha in Nirvana - The City of Righteousness. The Practice of Theravada Buddhism - The Morals of the Monk - Care of the Body - Meritorious Action - The Virtue of Friendliness - Hatred and Love - Buddhism and Everyday Life. The Social and Political Order - Conditions of the Welfare Societies - Class and Caste in Buddhism - Ashoka: The Buddhist Emperor.

2 THE LIFE OF BUDDHA AS A WAY OF SALVATION [YH, WTdB]

Introduction. The Life of the Buddha - His Birth and the Sages' Prophecies - His Excursions from the Palace - His First Meditation - His Departure from Home and Family- The Failure of Asceticism – Enlightenment - His Compassion on the World.

3 "THE GREATER VEHICLE" OF MAHAYANA BUDDHISM [ALB]

Introduction. The Bodhisattva - The Mahayana Ideal Is Higher Than That of the Theravada - The Suffering Savior - The Lost Son - Joy in All Things - The Good Deeds of the Bodhisattva - The Evils of Meat-Eating - The Gift of Food - The Three Bodies of the Buddha - Emptiness- Faith in Emptiness - Karma and Rebirth – Suchness - All Depends on the Mind - Nirvana Is Here and Now - Praise of Dharma - Perfect Wisdom Personified - The Blessings of Peace - The Divine Right (and Duty) of Kings - Magical Utterances.

4 TANTRICISM AND THE DECLINE OF BUDDHISM IN INDIA [ALB]

Introduction. Passion As a Means of Salvation - Everything Is Buddha.

5 THE COMING OF BUDDHISM TO CHINA [WTdBo, LH]

Introduction. Buddhism and the Chinese Tradition. The Introduction of Buddhism. Is Buddhism Un-Chinese?  -Why Is Buddhism Not Mentioned in the Chinese Classics? -Why Do Buddhist Monks Do Injury to Their Bodies? - Why Do Monks Not Marry? Death and Rebirth - Why Should a Chinese Allow Himself to Be Influenced by Indian Ways? -Why Must a Monk Renounce Worldly Pleasures? - Why Does Mou Tzu Support His Contentions from Secular Rather Than Buddhist Literature? -Does Buddhism Have No Recipe for Immortality?

6 THE SCHOOLS OF CHINESE BUDDHISM I [LHo, WTCo, YHo, WTdBjo]

Introduction. The Three-Treatise School - The Twofold Truth. The School of Consciousness-Only - Confirmation of the Consciousness-Only System. The Lotus School: T'ien-t'ai Syncretism - All Things Have the Buddha-Nature - The Method of Concentration and Insight in the Mahayana Emptiness, Temporariness and the Mean -One Mind Comprises All Dharmas. The Flower Garland School - Principle and Fact -The Vow to Live the Life of Samanta bhadra - -On the Original Nature of Man.

7 SCHOOLS OF CHINESE BUDDHISM II [LHo, PYo, WTdB]

Pure Land Buddhism-Rebirth in the Pure Land – The Orthodoxy of the Pure Land Faith. The Parable of the White Path. The Meditation School-Introduction – The Platform Scripture of the Sixth Patriarch - Seeing into One's Own Nature - Anecdotes of the Master Ts'ao-shan. Con-clusion: The Fate of Buddhism.

BUDDHISM IN JAPAN

8 THE INTRODUCTION OF BUDDHISM TO JAPAN [WTdB]

Introduction. The Vision of Prince Shotoku. Buddhism in the Nara Period (Eighth Century). Buddhism and the State - The Ideal of the Buddhist Layman.

9 SAICHO AND THE LOTUS TEACHING [RT]

 Introduction - Vow of the Uninterrupted Study of the Lotus Sutra-Regulations for Students of the Mountain School.

10 KUKAI AND ESOTERIC BUDDHISM [RT, Yho WTdB]

Introduction - Indications to the Three Teachings - Kukai and His Master - The Transmission of the Law - The Ten Stages of Religious Consciousness - A School of Arts and Sciences.

11 AMIDA AND THE PURE LAND [RT, WTdB, YH]

Introduction. Pioneers of Pure Land Buddhism - The Es-sentials of Salvation. Honen - Invocation of Amida - The One-Page Testament. Shinran and the True Pure Land Sect - Hymn to the True Faith in the Nembutsu - Shinran's Humble Faith. Rennyo - All Gods and Buddhas Are Wor-shiped in Amida.

12 NICHIREN'S FAITH IN THE LOTUS [RT, WTdB]

Introduction - Dedication to the Lotus - Condemnation of Honen - Nichiren As Prophet -The Value of Suffering- Nichiren As the Bodhisattva of Superb Action - Japan As the Center of Buddhism's Regeneration.

13 ZEN [RT, WTdB, YH]

Introduction. Zen Pioneers in Japan - Propagation of Zen for the Protection of the Country - Drink Tea and Prolong Life - Conversations of Dogen – Exertion - Realizing the Solution - Sitting and the Koan - The Importance of Sitting - Body and Mind - Sermon of Muso Kokushi at the Open-ing of Tenryil Monastery - Letter of Takuan to the Shogun's Fencing Master - Night Thoughts of Takuan-The Autobiography of Hakuin -The Dynamic Practice of Zen.  Zen and the Arts.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Key to Initials in the Table (contributors, collaborators)
ALB A.L.Basham
LHo Leon Hurvitz
PYo Philip Yampolsky
RT Ryusaku Tsunoda
YH Yoshito Hakeda
WTdB Wm. Theodore de Bary

Capitalization and spellings are as they appear in the text.

Thanks to the contributors:
Benjamin L. Clark (ToC), Bob Riedel (Initials key), Barry Neavill ( (Initials key)

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