The Fundamental Teachings of Early Buddhism

The Fundamental Teachings of Early Buddhism
Title The Fundamental Teachings of Early Buddhism PDF eBook
Author Mun-keat Choong
Publisher Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Pages 292
Release 2000
Genre Religion
ISBN 9783447042321

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This book is a comparative examination of the main teachings contained in the Sutranga portion of the Pali Samyutta-nikaya (SN) and its counterpart in Chinese canon, a translation of a now lost Sanskrit Samyuktagama (Za-ahan-jing) (SA). The SN and SA are essentially two different versions of the same collection of discourses.This study builds on the work of Yin Shun, which demonstrates the historical importance of SN/SA in the formation of the early Buddhist canon. In particular, it is based on Yin Shun's recognition of the three-anga structure of SN/SA, and of the status of its Sutranga portion as of prime importance in the historical formation of this nikaya/agama, and as containing the most fundamental teachings of Buddha. The aim of this research is to reveal and clarify the similarities and differences between SN and SA, with regard to the principal Buddhist teachings contained in their Sutranga portion.

Early Buddhist Teachings

Early Buddhist Teachings
Title Early Buddhist Teachings PDF eBook
Author Y. Karunadasa
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 255
Release 2018-06-19
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1614294682

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A clear, elegant clarification of the basic teachings of early Buddhism, ideal for both general readers and scholars. Discover the birth of Buddhism and the essentials of Buddhist teachings with this clear, comprehensive explanation of early Buddhism’s key doctrines. You’ll come away with: insight into the beginning of Buddhism and the significance of its core beliefs—dependent arising, non-self, moral life, the diagnosis of the human condition, the critique of theoretical views, and the nature of Nibbana; a lucid understanding of the Buddha’s challenge to the concept of the subject as a self-entity and the reality of both the subject and object, perceiver and perceived, as a dynamic process; a grasp of early Buddhist teachings as representing a middle position (equally aloof from spiritual eternalism and materialist annihilation) and a middle path (equally aloof from self-mortification and sensual indulgence); and the experience of the Buddha’s teachings on attaining liberation as comprehensible, sensible, and something we can make part of our own practice.

Early Buddhism: A New Approach

Early Buddhism: A New Approach
Title Early Buddhism: A New Approach PDF eBook
Author Sue Hamilton-Blyth
Publisher Routledge
Pages 252
Release 2013-10-18
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1136843000

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New interpretations of the central teachings of early Buddhism, mainly the relationship between identity and perception in early Buddhism.

Early Buddhist Discourses

Early Buddhist Discourses
Title Early Buddhist Discourses PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Hackett Publishing
Pages 242
Release 2006-03-15
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1603840028

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Twenty discourses from the Pali Canon--including those most essential to the study and teaching of early Buddhism--are provided in fresh translations, accompanied by introductions that highlight the main themes and set the ideas presented in the context of wider philosophical and religious issues. Taken together, these fascinating works give an account of Buddhist teachings directly from the earliest primary sources. In his General Introduction, John J. Holder discusses the structure and language of the Pali Canon--its importance within the Buddhist tradition and the historical context in which it developed--and gives an overview of the basic doctrines of early Buddhism.

Rethinking the Buddha

Rethinking the Buddha
Title Rethinking the Buddha PDF eBook
Author Eviatar Shulman
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 225
Release 2014-06-23
Genre Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN 110706239X

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Shulman traces the development of the four noble truths, which in fact originated as observations to be cultivated during meditation.

How Buddhism Began

How Buddhism Began
Title How Buddhism Began PDF eBook
Author Richard F. Gombrich
Publisher Routledge
Pages 251
Release 2006-03-07
Genre Religion
ISBN 1134196385

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Written by one of the world's top scholars in the field of Pali Buddhism, this new and updated edition of How Buddhism Began, discusses various important doctrines and themes in early Buddhism. It takes 'early Buddhism' to be that reflected in the Pali canon, and to some extent assumes that these doctrines reflect the teachings of the Buddha himself. Two themes predominate. Firstly, the author argues that we cannot understand the Buddha unless we understand that he was debating with other religious teachers, notably Brahmins. The other main theme concerns metaphor, allegory and literalism. This accessible, well-written book is mandatory reading for all serious students of Buddhism.

Greek Buddha

Greek Buddha
Title Greek Buddha PDF eBook
Author Christopher I. Beckwith
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 299
Release 2017-02-28
Genre History
ISBN 0691176329

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Presents a history of early Buddhism based solely on dateable artefacts and archaeology rather than received tradition, much of which data is provided by studying Pyrrho's history