The Experience of Buddhism – Sources and Interpretations – [Religious Life in History, Religious Studies Texts from Wadsworth] – Third Edition

av Strong, John S.

Häftad bok. Wadsworth Publishing Company. 2008.

Nära nyskick. "Table of contents
1. The Life Story of the Buddha and Its Ramifications.
The Eight Commemorative Shrines. A Royal Pilgrim Retraces the Life of the Buddha. Ananda Recounts the Birth of The Buddha. Signs of Suffering. The Great Departure: Two Versions. Awakening Achieved. Remembering Past Lives. Viewing the Cosmos. Realizing the Four Noble Truths. The Death and Parinirvana of The Buddha. The Distribution of the Relics. A Story of a Buddha Image. The Future Buddha Maitreya.
2. The Experience of the Sangha.
Tales of Conversion. Rites of Passage. The Regulation of the Sangha. Sangha Situations. Buddhism and the State: The King and the Community.
3. The Dharma: Some Perspectives of Mainstream Buddhism.
Preliminaries: The Loss and Preservation of the Dharma. Suffering, Impermanence, and No-Self. The Arising of Suffering. The Cessation of Suffering. The Path. Doctrinal Issues.
4. The Dharma: Some Mahayana Perspectives.
Preliminary: The Parable of the Burning House. Basic Perspectives: The Perfection of Wisdom. Philosophical Formulations. The Bodhisattva Path.
5. Saviors and Siddhas: The Mahayana Pantheon and Tantric Buddhism.
The Life Span of the Tathagata. Savior Bodhisattvas. Savior Texts. Savior Buddhas and Pure Lands. Tantric Buddhism or the Vajrayana.
Part Two: The Development of Buddhism Outside India.
6. Buddhists and the Practice of Buddhism: Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia.
Mythic Histories. Divisional Issues. Regulation and Reform: The Efforts of King Parakramabahu. Rituals and Festivals. Meditational Endeavors: Visualizing the Victor''s Cage. Women and the Sangha: A Twentieth-Century Case. Sangha and Society.
7. Buddhists and the Practice of Buddhism: The Tibetan Cultural Area.
Mythic History: Subduing the Demons of Tibet. Divisional Issues: Sudden versus Gradual Enlightenment. Regulation and Reform: The Efforts of AtYssa. Rituals and Festivals. Meditational Endeavors: Milarepa''s Quest. Women and the Sangha: The Abbess of Samding and Ani Lochen. Sangha and Society.
8. Buddhists and the Practice of Buddhism: China.
Mythic History: Chinese and Japanese Legends. Divisional Issues: Do All Being Have the Buddha-Nature? Regulation and Reform: An Apocryphal Monastic Code. Rituals and Festivals: Ordination at Pao-hua Shan. Meditational Endeavors. Women and the Sangha. Sangha and Society: The Commercialization of Services. [....]"