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Imprint: New York : Atheneum, 1976 [c1962, c1896]. Context: Originally published as vol. 3 of the Harvard oriental series by Harvard University Press, 1896. Series: Harvard Oriental Series vol 3. Responsibility: Translated by Henry Clark Warren. OCLC Number: 4176745. Physical: Text : 1 volume : xx, 496 pages ; 19 cm. Features: Includes appendix.
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GT-B-G / Warre
ISBN
0689702000 / 9780689702006
Original publication date
1896
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Description: Extracts from Pāli writings done into English, and so arranged as to give a general idea of Ceylonese Buddhism. cf. Introduction.
Table of Contents: Chapter I. 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 --
Chapter 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 bing --
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 --
37. Discussion of dependant origination --
Chapter III. Karma and rebirth --
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 on existence --
49. Different kinds of death --
50. How existence in hell is possible --
51. Death's messengers, the "three warnings" --
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 --
Chapter IV. Meditation and nirvana --
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 --
Chapter V. The order --
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 deal --
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 and 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.
FY1987 /
Table of Contents: Chapter I. 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 --
Chapter 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 bing --
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 --
37. Discussion of dependant origination --
Chapter III. Karma and rebirth --
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 on existence --
49. Different kinds of death --
50. How existence in hell is possible --
51. Death's messengers, the "three warnings" --
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 --
Chapter IV. Meditation and nirvana --
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 --
Chapter V. The order --
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 deal --
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 and 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.
FY1987 /
Physical description
xx, 496 p.; 19 cm
Description
This much-cited scholarly anthology of key Theravada Buddhist documents originally appeared in 1896 as part of the renowned Harvard Oriental Series. An excellent, accessible presentation of the vast range of Pâli Buddhist literature, it was among the first English translations of the direct words of the Buddha.
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Pali
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This volume is strong particularly for Theravada Buddhism.
4. The Birth of the Buddha, pp. 46-47
Here is the story of how the Buddha, at birth, announced himself.
13. Questions Which Tend Not for Edification, pp. 120-121
This relates how the Buddha answered questions when he did not always provide the
Said the elder, "Your majesty, why are not all trees alike, but some sour, some salt, some bitter, some pungent, some astringent, some sweet?" "I suppose, bhante, because of a difference in the seed." - from "The Cause of Inequality in the World."
Highly readable, this is no dry scholarly text, taken from the original palm-leaf manuscripts in the Pali language-akin to Sanskrit-and featuring simple yet radiant chapters on sentient existence, karma and rebirth, meditation and nirvana, and all the Buddha's wise and compassionate enlightenment. This much-cited scholarly anthology of key Theravada Buddhist documents originally appeared in 1896 as part of the renowned Harvard Oriental Series. An excellent, accessible presentation of the vast range of Pâli Buddhist literature, it was among the first English translations of the direct words of the Buddha. The materials for this book are drawn ultimately from the Pali writings of Ceylon & Burma, that is to say they are to be found in palm leaf manuscripts of those countries, written in the Singhalese or Burmese alphabet, as the case may be, but always in the same Pali language, a tongue very akin to the Sanskrit. These Pali writings furnish the most authoritative account of the Buddha & his doctrine that we have.
4. The Birth of the Buddha, pp. 46-47
Here is the story of how the Buddha, at birth, announced himself.
13. Questions Which Tend Not for Edification, pp. 120-121
This relates how the Buddha answered questions when he did not always provide the
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answers.Said the elder, "Your majesty, why are not all trees alike, but some sour, some salt, some bitter, some pungent, some astringent, some sweet?" "I suppose, bhante, because of a difference in the seed." - from "The Cause of Inequality in the World."
Highly readable, this is no dry scholarly text, taken from the original palm-leaf manuscripts in the Pali language-akin to Sanskrit-and featuring simple yet radiant chapters on sentient existence, karma and rebirth, meditation and nirvana, and all the Buddha's wise and compassionate enlightenment. This much-cited scholarly anthology of key Theravada Buddhist documents originally appeared in 1896 as part of the renowned Harvard Oriental Series. An excellent, accessible presentation of the vast range of Pâli Buddhist literature, it was among the first English translations of the direct words of the Buddha. The materials for this book are drawn ultimately from the Pali writings of Ceylon & Burma, that is to say they are to be found in palm leaf manuscripts of those countries, written in the Singhalese or Burmese alphabet, as the case may be, but always in the same Pali language, a tongue very akin to the Sanskrit. These Pali writings furnish the most authoritative account of the Buddha & his doctrine that we have.
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