Author: Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: LP Publications
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 454
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187533150
Description
The History of the Buddhist faith begins with a band of mendicant monks who gathered round the person of Gotama, the Buddha, in the country bordering on the Ganges, about two thousand and five hundred years before the commencement of the Christian era.
What bound them together and gave a stamp to their simple and earnest world of thought, was the deeply felt and clearly and sternly expressed consciousness, that all earthly existence is full of sorrow, and that the only deliverance form sorrow is in renunciation of the world and eternal rest.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I
India and Buddhism
CHAPTER II
Indian Pantheism and Pessimism before Buddha
CHAPTER III
Asceticism, Monastic Orders
PART I: BUDDHA'S LIFE
CHAPTER I
The Character of Tradition, Legend and Myth
CHAPTER II
Buddha's Youth
CHAPTER III
Beginning of the Teacher's Career
CHAPTER IV
Buddha's Work
CHAPTER V
Buddha's Death
PART II: THE DOCTRINES OF BUDDHISM
CHAPTER I
The Tenet of Suffering
CHAPTER II
The Tenet of the Origin and of the Extinction of Suffering
CHAPTER III
The Tenet of the Path to the Extinction of Suffering
PART III: THE ORDER OF BUDDHA'S DISCIPLES
CHAPTER I
The Constitution of the Order and its Codes of Laws
EXCURSUS
FIRST EXCURSUS
On the relative geographical location of Vedic and Buddhist Culture
SECOND EXCURSUS
Notes and Authorities on the History of Buddha's Youth
THIRD EXCURSUS
Appendices and Authorities on Some matters of Buddhist Dogmatic