Buddhism · One Teacher, Many Traditions by Lama, Dalai -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Contents Foreword by Bhante Gunaratana Prologue by His Holiness the Dalai Lama Preface by Venerable Thubten Chodron Abbreviations Publisher’s Acknowledgment 1. Origin and Spread of the Buddha’s Doctrine

• The Buddha’s Life • Buddhist Canons and the Spread of the Dharma • Pāli Tradition • Buddhism in China • Buddhism in Tibet • Our Commonalities and Diversity

2. Refuge in the Three Jewels

• Existence of the Three Jewels • The Tathāgata’s Qualities • Three Jewels: Pāli Tradition • Three Jewels: Sanskrit Tradition • Buddha’s Awakening, Parinirvāṇa, and Omniscience • Taking Refuge and Maintaining Proper Refuge

3. Sixteen Attributes of the Four Truths

• Sanskrit Tradition • Pāli Tradition

4. The Higher Training in Ethical Conduct

• The Importance of Ethical Conduct • Prātimokṣa Ethical Restraints • Why Celibacy? • The Vinaya Schools • The Value of the Monastic Community • Fulfilling the Purpose of Monastic Life • Monastics, Priests, and Lay Teachers • Tibetan Monastics and Monastic Institutions • Challenges for Western Monastics • Full Ordination for Women • Advice for Monastics • The Joy of Monastic Discipline • Bodhisattva and Tantric Ethical Restraints

5. The Higher Training in Concentration

• The Importance of Concentration • Realms of Existence and Spheres of Consciousness • Pāli Tradition • Five Hindrances and Five Absorption Factors • Four Jhānas • Four Immaterial Absorptions • Eight Meditative Liberations • Superknowledges • Sanskrit Tradition • Meditation Position and Meditation Objects • Five Faults and Eight Antidotes • Nine Stages of Sustained Attention • Serenity and Further Meditative Absorptions • Chinese Buddhism

6. The Higher Training in Wisdom: Thirty-Seven Aids to Awakening

• Four Establishments of Mindfulness • Mindfulness of the Body • Mindfulness of Feelings • Mindfulness of the Mind • Mindfulness of Phenomena • Four Establishments of Mindfulness for Bodhisattvas • Four Supreme Strivings • Four Bases of Supernormal Power • Five Faculties and Five Powers • Seven Awakening Factors • The Noble Eightfold Path • Conventional and Ultimate Natures of the Thirty-Seven Aids

7. Selflessness and Emptiness

• Pāli Tradition: The Self and the Aggregates • Madhyamaka: The Object of Negation • Seven-Point Refutation • Six Elements Are Not the Self • Refutation of Four Extremes of Arising • Selfless and Deceptive • Emptiness • What Carries the Karma?

8. Dependent Arising

• Twelve Links of Dependent Arising • Flow of the Links • Who Circles in Saṃsāra? • Benefits of Meditating on the Twelve Links of Dependent Arising • Sanskrit Tradition: Levels of Dependence • Causal Dependence • Mutual Dependence • Mere Dependent Designation • Emptiness and Dependent Arising Are Compatible • Pāli Tradition: Terms, Concepts, and Conventions

9. Uniting Serenity and Insight

• Pāli Tradition • Sanskrit Tradition • Chinese Buddhism

10. Progressing on the Path

• Pāli Tradition: Purification and Knowledge • Sanskrit Tradition: Five Paths and Ten Bodhisattva Grounds • Differences among the Three Vehicles • Sanskrit Tradition: Nirvāṇa • Pāli Tradition: Nibbāna

11. The Four Immeasurables

• Pāli Tradition • Love • Compassion • Joy • Equanimity • Four Immeasurables and Insight • Near and Far Enemies • Sanskrit Tradition

12. Bodhicitta

• Tibetan Buddhism • Equanimity • Sevenfold Cause-and-Effect Instruction • Equalizing and Exchanging Self and Others • Self-Interest, Self-Confidence, Self-Centered Attitude, and Self-Grasping Ignorance • Integrating the View with Bodhicitta • Chinese Buddhism • Four Great Vows • Aspiring and Engaging Bodhicitta • Pāli Tradition: Bodhicitta and Bodhisattas

13. Bodhisattva Training in the Perfections

• Sanskrit Tradition • Pāli Tradition: Ten Pāramīs • Perfection of Generosity • Perfection of Ethical Conduct • Perfection of Fortitude • Perfection of Joyous Effort • Perfections of Meditative Stability and of Renunciation • Perfection of Wisdom • Perfections of Unshakable Resolve and of Determination • Perfections of Skillful Means, Power, and Exalted Wisdom • Pāramīs of Truthfulness, Love, and Equanimity • The Four Ways of Gathering Disciples

14. The Possibility of Awakening and Buddha Nature

• Is Liberation Possible? • Pāli Tradition: Luminous Mind • Yogācāra School: Buddha Nature • Madhyamaka School: Buddha Nature • Tantrayāna: Buddha Nature • Chan: Buddha Nature, Bodhicitta, and True Suchness • Understanding Tathāgatagarbha

15. Tantra

• Tantric Deities • Entering Vajrayāna • Excellent Features of Highest Yoga Tantra

16. Conclusion Notes Index About the Authors Also by the Dalai Lama Additional Material About Wisdom Publications Copyright