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Buddha and the Gospel of Buddhism (Classic Reprint)
Buddha and the Gospel of Buddhism - Classic Reprint Author:Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy PART I : THE LIFE OF THE BUDDHA I-lis EiY!lt THE name Buddha, ' the Knower,' 'the Enlightened,' 'the Vake,' is the appellation by which the wandering preaching friar Gautama became best known to his disciples. Of this man we are able to say with some certainty that he was born in the year 563 B.C. and died in 483 B.C. He was the heir of a ruling... more » house of the Sakyas, vhose little kingdom, a rich irrigated plain between the Nepalese foot. hills and the river Rapti, lay to the north.east of the present province of Oudh. To the south.west lay the larger and more powerful kingdom of the Kosalas, to whom the Sakyas owed a nominal allegiance. The Buddha's personal name was Siddhattha, his family name Gautama, his father's name Suddhodana, his mother's Maya. It is only in later legend that Suddhodana is represented as a great king; most likely he was in fact a vealthy knight and land. owner. Siddhattha's mother died seven days after his birth, and her sister l
Table of Contents
CONTENTS; PART I : THE LIFE OF THE BUDDHA; PART II : THE GOSPEL OF EARLY; BUDDHISM; I DHAMMA 90; II SAMSARA AND KAMMA (KARMA) 104-; III BUDDH 1ST HEAVENS AND HOW TO REACH; THEM 110; IV NIBBANA 115; V ETHICS 126; VI CONSCIENCE 137; VII SPIRITUAL EXERCISES 14-1; VIII CONSOLATION 148; IX THE ORDER 151; X TOLERANCE 155; XI WOMEN 159; XII EARLY BUDDHISM AND NATURE 166"'"; XIII BUDDHIST PESSIMISM 176; XIV A BUDDHIST EMPEROR 180; PART III : CONTEMPORARY SYSTEMS; I VEDANTA; II SAMKHYA; III YOGA; IV BUDDHISM AND BRAHMANISM
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