TABLE OF CONTENS Introduction First Part THE TEACHINH OF THE ELDERS By I.B. Horner THE SAMGHA 17 THE ORDER OF MONKS AND NUNS Conversion of Anathapidika 17 Conversion of General Sika 20 Ordination of Pajapati the Great 23 Visakha, the Laywoman Supporter 26 Schism 28 SKLL IN MEANS 33 AHARANTS 42 THE BUDDHIT APOCALYPSE 45 THE DHAMMA 51 THE FIVE FACULTIES The Five Faculties collectively 51 The Five Faculties separately 52 Faith 52 Vigour 54 Mindfulness 56 Concentration 60 Wisdom 64 CONDITIONED GENESIS Conditioned Genesis collectively 65 Conditioned Genesis separately 70 Ignorance 70 Consciousness 70 Feeling 72 Craving 73 Grasping 74 Birth, Agering and Dying 76 THE OBJECT OR WISDOM Crossing Over 82 Emptiness 90 Nirvana 92 THE BUDDHA AND TATHAGATA 103 Second Part THE MAHAYANA By Edward Conze BASIC NOTIONS 119 CRITICISM OF THE HYNAYANA POSITION Bodhisattvas and Disciples 119 The Conversion of Sariputra 120 The two Nirvanas 124 THE BODHISATTVA Descriptions 127 His infinite Compassion 131 The Dedication of Merit 132 THE SIX PERFECTIONS Definition 135 The six Perfections and the Body 136 The Perfection of Giving 136 The Perfection of Patience 137 The Perfection of Meditation 138 THE BUDDHA The Tathagata as a Rain-cloud 139 The real Buddha 140 The tathagatas’ Coming and Going 143 The Dharma-body 143 Tathagata and Suchness 144 The 18 special Dharmas of a Buddha 145 NEW WISDOM SCHOOL 146 THE PERFECTION OF WISDOM 146 THE ELUSIVENESS OF PERFECT WISDM 149 THE DOCTRINE OF PERFECT WISDOM 152 EMPTINESS Preliminary Meditations 158 Definitions and Synonyms of Emptiness 163 Negations 172 Contradictions 175 Unreality of the World 177 Emptiness and Salvation 179 The Germ of Buddhahood in all Beings 181 THE BUDDHISM OF FAITH 185 FAITH 185 THE ACTS AND REWARDS OF THE DEVOTION 186 THE OBJECTS OF DEVOTION The Buddha 190 Avalokitesvara 194 Tara 196 THE PURE LAND 202 YOGACARINS 207 MIND ONLY 207 TWOFOLD EGOLESSNESS 211 IRREALITY OF THE WORLD 212 THE BUDDHA AS THE BASIC OF ALL 216 Third Part THE TANTRAS By David Snellgrove The Cleansing of Thought 221 Supreme Enlightenment 221 Saraha’s Treasury of Songs 224 Anangavajra, The Attainment of the Realization of Wisdom and Means 240 Note on the Mandala 246 Advayanajra, the Fivefold Manifestation 249 An Evocation of Prajnaparamita 252 The Mandala conceived within 254 The Story of Tanti 255 Mila Repa and the Novices 257 Fourth Part TEXTS FROM CHINA AND JAPAN By Arthur Waley Introduction TEXTS ORIGINATING IN INDIA 274 The Parable of Me and Mine 274 On the Curing of Illness contracted during Dhyana Practice 274 Meditation upon the Element Water 275 Judging the Character of a Dhyana Pupil 276 The Bracelets 278 All Words are true 278 Buddha’ Doctrine 279 The Negation of Dhyana 280 Po Chü-i. Poem On readinh the Dhyana Sutra 281 Nationality 282 The Intermediate State 283 Devas repeople the Earth 283 Buddha’s Pity 285 TEXTS ORIGINATING IN CHINA AND JAPAN 287 A Hinayana Sect in early China 287 The Truely So 290 From the Lives of the Nuns 291 On Trust in the Heart 295 From the Conversations of Shen-hui 299 A nice Mountain 302 Rain-making 302 BIBLIOGRAHY 307 SOURCES 311 GLOSSARY 313 ABBREVIATIONS 323