Buddhism in TranslationsSaid 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" Though published more than a century ago, in 1896, this beautiful translation of the fundamental teachings of the Buddha is still a worthy introduction-few of the numerous subsequent translations are as lucid, as well balanced, or as well organized as this one. 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. Namaste. HENRY CLARK WARREN (1854) was an American scholar of Buddhism. |
Contents
1 | |
21 | |
The Great Retirement | 56 |
8 | 69 |
First Events after the Attainment of Buddhaship | 83 |
The Conversion of Sariputta and Moggallāna | 91 |
CHAPTER II | 111 |
Questions which tend not to Edification | 117 |
Going Further and Faring Worse | 308 |
Sariputta and the Two Demons | 315 |
Wisdom | 330 |
The Summum Bonum | 331 |
Māra as Plowman | 349 |
The Firesermon | 351 |
The Four Intent Contemplations | 353 |
The Attainment of the Paths | 376 |
There is no | 129 |
What is Unity or One? | 153 |
CHAPTER III | 209 |
CHAPTER IV | 212 |
41 | 221 |
46 | 233 |
Deaths Messengers | 255 |
The Ass in the Lions Skin | 262 |
Virtue is its own Reward | 269 |
MEDITATION AND NIRVANA PAGE Introductory Discourse | 280 |
57 The Way of Purity | 285 |
Concentration | 288 |
The Thirtyone Grades of Being | 289 |
The Forty Subjects of Meditation | 291 |
The Earthkasiņa | 293 |
Beauty is but Skindeep | 297 |
The Conversion of Animals | 301 |
Love for Animals | 302 |
The Six High Powers | 303 |
Spiritual Law in the Natural World | 306 |
Nirvana to be attained at Death | 380 |
The Trance of Cessation | 383 |
CHAPTER V | 392 |
Conduct | 393 |
The Serpent who wanted to be a Priest | 401 |
The Buddhist Confession of Priests | 402 |
The Order receive leave to dwell in Houses | 411 |
Residence during the Rainy Season | 414 |
The Mendicant Ideal | 417 |
The Value of Training in Religion | 420 |
The colorless Life | 421 |
Can the Saint suffer? | 422 |
The Body is an open Sore | 423 |
Heaven not the Highest Good | 424 |
95 | 430 |
98 | 436 |
100 | 448 |
102 | 481 |
APPENDIX | 487 |
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