RLST/HIST 307 - Buddhism

The Buddhist monk Ashvaghosha composed Life of the Buddha in the first or second century CE. This is the earliest surviving text of the Sanskrit literary genre called kavya and probably provided models for more famous works.

This book offers a complete translation of the Majjhima Nikaya, or Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, one of the major collections of texts in the Pali Canon, the authorized scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. This collection--among the oldest records of the historical Buddha's original teachings--consists of 152 suttas or discourses of middle length, distinguished as such from the longer and shorter suttas of the other collections. Winner of the 1995 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book Award, and the Tricycle Prize for Excellence in Buddhist Publishing for Dharma Discourse.

This book offers a complete translation of the Digha Nikaya, the long discourses of the Buddha, one of the major collections of texts in the Pali Canon, the authorized scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. This collection--among the oldest records of the historical Buddha's original teachings, given in India two and a half thousand years ago--consists of thirty-four longer-length suttas, or discourses. Included are Buddha's teachings on mindfulness, morality, concentration, and wisdom.

This volume offers a complete translation of the Samyutta Nikaya, The Connected Discourses of the Buddha, the third of the four great collections in the Sutta Pitaka of the Pali Canon. The Samyutta Nikaya consists of fifty-six chapters, each governed by a unifying theme that binds together the Buddha's suttas or discourses. The chapters are organized into five major parts. The first, The Book with Verses, is a compilation of suttas composed largely in verse. The other four books deal in depth with the philosophical principles and meditative structures of early Buddhism. This collection was directed mainly at those disciples who were capable of grasping the deepest dimensions of wisdom.

Buddha's disciples compiled records of the Buddha's teachings soon after his passing. Preserved in Pali, an ancient Indian language closely related to the language that the Buddha spoke, this full compilation of texts is known as the Pali Canon. If we want to find out what the Buddha himself actually said, these are the most ancient sources available to us. The suttas were compiled into collections called "Nikayas," of which there are four, each organized according to a different principle. This is the Anguttara Nikaya, of numerically patterned discourses to promote retention and easy comprehension.

Includes tales of the Buddha's past lives, a discussion of the qualities and qualifications of a monk and an exploration of the many meanings of Enlightenment.

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This volume delves into the socio religious milieu of the authors, editors, and propagators of the 'Raaosotrapaalapariporcchaa-sautra' ('Questions of Rastrapala'), a Buddhist text circulating in India during the first half of the first millennium CE.

The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra, one of the Five Treatises said to have been dictated to Asanga by the Bodhisattva Maitreya, presents the Buddha's definitive teachings and clarifies the nature and qualities of buddhahood. Called The Unassailable Lion's Roar, it presents Maitreya's text as a background for the Mahamudra teachings in a way that is especially clear and easy.

Leading scholars in the field have translated selections from the writings of more than a hundred philosophical thinkers from all eras and schools of thought, many of them available in English for the first time.The Sourcebook editors have set out to represent the entire Japanese philosophical tradition—not only the broad spectrum of academic philosophy dating from the introduction of Western philosophy in the latter part of the nineteenth century, but also the philosophical ideas of major Japanese traditions of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Shinto.

EngagingBuddhism: Why it Matters to Philosophy articulates the basic metaphysical framework common to Buddhist traditions. It then explores questions in metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, phenomenology, epistemology, the philosophy of language and ethics as they are raised and addressed in a variety of Asian Buddhist traditions.

A comprehensive introduction to the development of the Buddhist tradition in both Asia and the West, drawing on recent scholarship in the field to explore the tensions and continuities between the different forms of Buddhism. The volume includes detailed references to scriptures and secondary literature, an updated bibliography, and a section on web resources

Presents the life and teachings of the Buddha in graphic form, explains the practices of meditation, and describes the role of Buddhism in modern Asia and its growing influence on Western thought.

Details the development of Buddhism from the life of the historical Buddha to the present. By organizing the text according to the structure of Buddhist thought and teaching, Olson avoids imposing a Western perspective that traditional texts commonly bring to the subject.

The author surveys the key texts and philosophical systems of Chinese thinkers in a completely original and illuminating way. Ranging from the Han dynasty to the present, he discusses the six classical schools of Chinese philosophy (Yin-Yang, Ru, Mo, Ming, Fa and Dao-De); the arrival of Buddhism in China and its distinctive development; the central figures and movements from the end of the Tang dynasty to the introduction into China of Western thought; and the impact of Chinese philosophers--ranging from Confucius and Laozi to Tu Weiming -- on their equivalents in the West.