Buddhism : Pali Text With English Translation (2 Vols-Set) Book

Contents: Preface. Abbreviations. The three characteristics. Introduction. Vol. I. I. The Buddha: Introductory discourse. 1. The story of Sumedha. 2. A list of former Buddhas. 3. The characteristics of a future Buddha. 4. The birth of the Buddha. 5. The young Gotamid Prince. 6. The great retirement. 7. The great struggle. 8. The attainment of Buddhaship. 9. First events after the attainment of Buddhaship. 10. The conversion of Sariputta and Moggallana. 11. The Buddha’s daily habits. 12. The death of the Buddha. II. Sentient existence: Introductory discourse. 13. Questions which tend not to edification. 14. King Milinda and Nagasena come to an understanding. 15. There is no ego. 16. All signs of an ego are absent. 17. No continuous personal identity. 18. The mind less permanent than the body. 19. What is unity or one? 20. Analysis of the human being. 21. The composition of the body. 22. On getting angry. 23. The origin and cessation of the human being. 24. Inanimate nature. 25. The middle doctrine. 26. Ignorance. 27. Karma. 28. Consciousness. 29. Name and form. 30. The six organs of sense. 31. Contact. 32. Sensation. 33. Desire. 34. Attachment. 35. Existence. 36. Birth etc. 37. Discussion of dependent origination. III. Karma and rebirth: Introductory discourse. 38. Be a friend to yourself. 39. The cause of inequality in the world. 40. Fruitful and barren Karma. 41. The death of Moggallana. 42. Good and bad Karma. 43. How to obtain wealth, beauty and social position. 44. The round of existence. 45. Cause of rebirth. 46. Is this to be my last existence? 47. Rebirth is not transmigration. 48. Reflections of existence. 49. Different kinds of death. 50. How existence in hell is possible. 51. Death’s messengers. 52. The ass in the Lion’s skin. 53. The devoted wife. 54. Friendship. 55. Virtue is its own reward. 56. The hare-mark in the moon.

Vol. II. IV. Meditation and Nirvana: Introductory discourse. 57. The way of purity. 58. Concentration. 59. The thirty-one grades of being. 60. The forty subjects of meditation. 61. The earth-kasina. 62. Beauty is but skin-deep. 63. The conversion of animals. 64. Love for animals. 65. The six high powers. 66. Spiritual law in the natural world. 67. Going further and faring worse. 68. Sariputta and the two demons. 69. World-cycles. 70. Wisdom. 71. The Summum Bonum. 72. Mara as Plowman. 73. The fire-sermon. 74. The four intent contemplations. 75. The attainment of the paths. 76. Nirvana to be attained at death. 77. The attainment of Nirvana by Godhika. 78. The trance of cessation. 79. The attainment of nirvana. V. The order: Introductory discourse. 80. Conduct. 81. The admission and ordination ceremonies. 82. The serpent who wanted to be a priest. 83. The Buddhist confession of priests. 84. The order receive leave to dwell in houses. 85. Residence during the rainy season. 86. The mendicant ideal. 87. The value of training in religion. 88. The colorless life. 89. Can the saint suffer? 90. The body is an open sore. 91. Heaven not the highest good. 92. The saints superior to the Gods. 93. The anger-eating demon. 94. Contentment is riches. 95. The story of a priest. 96. The young stone-thrower. 97. "And hate not his father and mother". 98 No Buddhist should commit suicide. 99. The admission of women to the order. 100. A family of magicians. 101. The story of Visakha. 102. The Buddhist apocalypse. Appendix: 103. The five groups. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.

Lord Buddha’s teachings have a great importance today for the common people to live in peace and to maintain brotherhood in the society. The aim of the present work is to take different ideas and conceptions found in Pali writings and present them to the reader in English. The work also contains original Pali texts along with its translations.

The book is divided into five chapters and more than one hundred sections. The selections of the first chapter are on the Buddha; next follow those which deal chiefly with the doctrine; while others concerning the order and secular life constitute the closing chapter of the book. The uniqueness of the work lies in the selective presentation of the materials and their systematic organization.

The book is accompanied by introduction, preface, bibliography and general index. Besides appendices, an addition of glossary of Buddhist technical terms is also a notable feature of this work. Hence, this new and enlarged edition would be immensely useful for the students as well as researchers of Pali and Buddhism. Besides, it will also serve a much larger purpose." (jacket)