Dialogues of The Buddha - A Set of 3 Volumes Bound in 2

Dialogues of The Buddha - A Set of 3 Volumes Bound in 2

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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