Author: T W Rhys Davids
Translator: T W Rhys Davids
Publisher: LP Publications
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 334
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8175362448
Description
The Dialogues of the Buddha, constituting, in the Pali text, the Digha and Magghima Nikayas, contain a full exposition of what the early Buddhists considered the teaching of the Buddha to have been.
The Dialogues of the Buddha, constituting, in the Pali text, the Digha and Magghima Nikayas, contain a full exposition of what the early Buddhists considered the teaching of the Buddha to have been. Incidentally they contain a large number of references to the social, political, and religious condition of India at the social, political, and religious condition of India at the time when they were put together. We do not know for certain what that time exactly was. But every day is adding to the number of the date may be based. And the ascertained facts are already sufficient to give us a fair working hypothesis.
The Buddha, like other Indian teachers of his time, taught by conversation. A highly educated man, speaking constantly to men of similar education, he followed the literary habit of his time by embodying his doctrines in set phrases, sutras, on which he enlarged on different occasions in different ways. These particulars ones were not in Sanskrit, but in the ordinary conversational idiom of the day, that is to say, in a sort of Pali.
When the Buddha died these sayings were collected together by his disciples into the Four Great Nikayas.
Contents
Preface
Note on the probable age of the Dialogues
Note on this Version
Abbreviations
CHAPTER 1
BRAHMA-GALA SUTTANTA
Introduction
Text (The Silas)
CHAPTER 2
SAMANNA-PHALA SUTTANTA
Introduction (Index to the paragraphs repeated in the other Suttantas)
Text
CHAPTER 3
AMBATTA SUTTANTA
Introduction (Caste)
Text
CHAPTER 4
SONADANDA SUTTANTA
Introduction (The Arahat the true Brahman)
Text
CHAPTER 5
KUTADANTA SUTTANTA
Introduction
(The irony in the text, Doctrine of sacrifice, Lokayata )
Text
CHAPTER 6
MAHALI SUTTANTA
Introduction
(The Indeterminates; Buddhist Agnosticism, The Sambodhi; Names in the texts)
Text
CHAPTER 7
GALIYA SUTTANTA
CHAPTER 8
KASSAPA-SIHANADA SUTTANTA
Introduction
(Method of the Dialogues, Tapasa and Bhikshu, ascetic and wandering mendicant, Indian ‘religieux’ in the Buddha’s time)
Text
CHAPTER 9
POTTHAPADA SUTTANTA
Introduction (The Soul)
Text
CHAPTER 10
SUBHA SUTTANTA
Introduction
Text
CHAPTER 11
KEVADDHA SUTTANTA
Introduction
(Iddhi, Buddhist Idealism)
Text
CHAPTER 12
LOHIKKA SUTTANTA
Introduction (Ethics of Teaching)
Text
CHAPTER 13
TEVIGGA SUTTANTA
Introduction (Union with God)
Text
Index of Subjects and Proper Names
Index of Pali Words
Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets adopted for the Translations of the Sacred Book of the Buddhists
Vol. 2
CHAPTER 14
MAHAPADANA SUTTANTA
Introduction (Buddhas, Bodhiasts, and Arahants)
Texts
CHAPTER 15
MAHA NIDANA SUTANTA
Introduction (The doctrine of natural causation)
Text
CHAPTER 16
MAHA PARINIBBANA SUTTANTA
Introduction (Passages in this Suttanta compared with others)
Text
CHAPTER 17
MAHA SUDASSANA SUTTANTA
Introcution (Comparison with other versions)
Text
CHAPTER 18
JANA-VASABHA SUTTANTA
Introducion (Buddhist irony. Two expressions discussed)
Text
CHAPTER 19
MAHA-GOVINDA SUTTANTA
Introduction (More irony. Other versions compared)
Text
CHAPTER 20
MAHA-SAMAYA SUTTANTA
Introduction (A glimpse of the evolution of gods)
Text
CHAPTER 21
SAKKA-PANHA SUTTANTA
Introduction (The conversion of a god. The Sakka myth)
Text
CHAPTER 22
MAHA SATIPATHANA SUTTANTA
Introduction (Discussion of the title)
Text
CHAPTER 23
PAYASI SUTTANTA
Introducion (Teaching of the community after the Buddha’s death. Doctrine of Dana)
Text
Index of Principal subjects and proper Names
Index of Pali Words
Vol 3
CHAPTER 24
PATIKA SUTTANTA
Introduction: Iddhi, Arahants
Suttanta (Mystic Wonders and the Origin of Things)
CHAPTER 25
UDUMBARIKA-SIHANADA SUTTANTA (On Asceticism)
CHAPTER 26
CAKKAVATTI-SIHANADA SUTTANTA
Introduction: Normalism
Suttanta (War, Wickedness, and Wealth)
CHAPTER 27
AGGANNA SUTTANTA (A Book of Genesis)
CHAPTER 28
SAMPASADANIYA SUTTANTA (The Faith that Satisfied)
CHAPTER 29
PASADIKA SUTTANTA (The Delectable Discourse)
CHAPTER 30
LAKKHANA SUTTANTA
Introduction: Myths of the World-Man
Suttanta (The Marks of the Superman)
CHAPTER 31
SIGALOVADA SUTTANTA
Introduction: Quarter-worship; The Layman’s Social Ethics
Suttanta (The Sigala Homily)
CHAPTER 32
ATANATIYA SUTTANTA
Introduction : Adjuration and Prayer
Suttanta (The Ward Rune of Atanata)
CHAPTER 33
SANGITI SUTTANTA
Introduction : Sariputta; Sutta and Abhidhamma
Suttanta (The Recital)
CHAPTER 34
DASUTTARA SUTTANTA (The Tenfold Series)
Appendix: Names in Atanatiya Suttanta
Indexes
Names and Subjects
Pali Words Discusse