Buddhist Texts Through the Ages

Buddhist Texts Through the Ages

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Descriptionངོ་སྤྲོད།

Edward Conze presents the premier anthology of Buddhist texts and scriptures in this stunningly ambitious collection. He traces the development of Buddhism through the ages, with translations from the original Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan and Japanese. For those looking for the perfect companion to Conze’s original text, Buddhism, or for those new to Buddhist theology, Buddhist Texts Through the Ages contains a thorough and comprehensive guide to the theology. This edition also includes a glossary of English and foreign terms. (Source: Philosophical Library)

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Conze, Edward, trans. and ed. Buddhist Texts Through the Ages: Newly Translated from the Original Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan, Japanese, and Apabhramsa. In collaboration with I. B. Horner, D. Snellgrove, and A. Waley. New York: Philosophical Library, 1954.

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http://www.philosophicallibrary.com/book/buddhist-texts-through-the-ages/

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See Bibliography pgs 307-311 for details on the translations.

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Akshayamati Sūtra: Selection 170 (Conze, E.)

Edward Conze translates a passage from the Akṣayamatinirdeśasūtra as found in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya.

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Avalokana Sūtra: Selection 172 (Conze, E.)

Edward Conze translates a passage from the Avalokinīsūtra as found in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya.

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Introduction First Part THE TEACHING OF THE ELDERS By I. B. Horner

• THE SAMGHA17
  • THE ORDER OF MONKS AND NUNS
    • Conversion of Anathapindika17
    • Conversion of General Siha20
    • Ordination of Pajapati the Great23
    • Visakha, the Laywoman Supporter26
    • Schism28
  • SKILL IN MEANS33
  • ARAHANTS42
  • THE BUDDHIST APOCALYPSE45

• THE DHAMMA51
  • THE FIVE FACULTIES
    • The Five Faculties collectively51
    • The Five Faculties separately52
    • Faith52
    • Vigour54
    • Mindfulness56
    • Concentration60
    • Wisdom64

• • CONDITIONED GENESIS
    • Conditioned Genesis collectively65
    • Conditioned Genesis separately70
    • Ignorance70
    • Consciousness70
    • Feeling72
    • Craving73
    • Grasping74
    • Birth, Ageing and Dying76

• • THE OBJECT OF WISDOM
    • Crossing Over82
    • Emptiness90
    • Nirvana92

• THE BUDDHA AND TATHAGATA103

Second Part THE MAHAYANA By Edward Conze

• BASIC NOTIONS119
  • CRITICISM OF THE HINAYANA POSITION
    • Bodhisattvas and Disciples119
    • The Conversion of Sariputra120
    • The two Nirvanas124

• • THE BODHISATTVA
    • Descriptions127
    • His Infinite Compassion131
    • The DedicatIon of Merit132

• • THE SIX PERFECTIONS
    • Definition135
    • The six Perfections and the Body136
    • The Perfection of Giving136
    • The Perfection of Patience137
    • The Perfection of Meditation138

• • THE BUDDHA
    • The Tathagata as a Rain-cloud139
    • The real Buddha140
    • The Tathagatas' Coming and Going143
    • The Dharma-body143
    • Tathagata and Suchness144
    • The 18 Special dharmas of a Buddha145

• NEW WISDOM SCHOOL146
  • THE PERFECTION OF WISDOM146
  • THE ELUSIVENESS OF PERFECT WISDOM149
  • THE DOCTRINE OF PERFECT WISDOM152
  • EMPTINESS
    • Preliminary Meditations158
    • Definitions and Synonyms of Emptiness163
    • Negations172
    • Contradictions175
    • Unreality of the World177
    • Emptiness and Salvation179
    • The Germ of Buddhahood in all Beings181

• THE BUDDHISM OF FAITH185
  • FAITH185
  • THE ACTS AND REWARDS OF DEVOTION186
  • THE OBJECTS OF DEVOTION
    • The Buddha190
    • Avalokitesvara194
    • Tara196
  • THE PURE LAND202

• YOGACARINS207
  • MIND ONLY207
  • TWOFOLD EGOLESSNESS211
  • IRREALITY OF THE WORLD212
  • THE BUDDHA AS THE BASIS OF ALL216

Third Part THE TANTRAS By David Snellgrove

• • • The Cleansing of Thought221
    • Supreme Enlightenment221
    • Saraha's Treasury of Songs224
    • Anangavajra, The Attainment of the Realization of Wisdom and Means240
    • Note on the Mandala246
    • Advayavajra, The fivefold Manifestation249
    • An Evocation of Prajnaparamita252
    • The Mandala conceived within254
    • The Story of Tanti255
    • Mila Repa and the Novices257

Fourth Part TEXTS FROM CHINA AND JAPAN By Arthur Waley

• Introduction
• TEXTS ORIGINATING IN INDIA274
  • • The Parable of Me and Mine274
    • On the Curing of Illness contracted during Dhyana Practice274
    • Meditation upon the Element Water275
    • Judging the Character of a Dhyana Pupil276
    • The Bracelets278
    • All Words are true278
    • Buddha's Doctrine279
    • The Negation of Dhyana280
    • Po Chu-i. Poem On Reading the Dhyana Sutra281
    • Nationality282
    • The Intermediate State283
    • Devas repeople the Earth283
    • Buddha's Pity285

• TEXTS ORIGINATING IN CHINA AND JAPAN287
  • • A Hinayana Sect in early China287
    • The Truly So290
    • From the Lives of the Nuns291
    • On Trust in the Heart295
    • From the Conversations of Shen-hui299
    • A nice Mountain302
    • Rain-making302

• BIBLIOGRAPHY307
• SOURCES311
• GLOSSARY313
• ABBREVIATIONS323

Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Akṣayamatinirdeśasūtra [आर्याक्षयमतिनिर्देशनाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa blo gros mi zad pas bstan pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་བློ་གྲོས་མི་ཟད་པས་བསྟན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Sūtra of the Teaching of Akṣayamati (84000)]. Translated by Dharmatāśīla, Chih-yen, Pao-yün, Dharmarakṣa. Kangyur, RKTSK 175 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=175&typ=1.

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Lele, Amod. "Śāntideva." In Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by James Fieser and Bradley Dowden. Accessed Feb. 11, 2021. https://iep.utm.edu/santideva/.

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Tsukamoto, Keisho, Yukei Matsunaga, and Hirofumi Isoda, eds. "Śāntideva." In A Descriptive Bibliography of the Sanskrit Buddhist Literature. Vol. 3, Abhidharma, Madhyamaka, Yogācāra, Buddhist Epistemology and Logic, 250–69. Kyoto: Heirakuji-Shoten, 1990.

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Lang, Karen. "Śāntideva." In Buddhist Philosophy from 600 to 750 A.D., edited by Karl H. Potter, 137–39. Vol. 21 of Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2017.

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Goodman, Charles. "Śāntideva." In Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Accessed March 15, 2021. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/shantideva/

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Potter, Karl H., David J. Kalupahana, and Michael J. Sweet. "Śāntideva." In Buddhist Philosophy from 600 to 750 A.D., edited by Karl H. Potter, 516–25. Vol. 21 of Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2017.

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Potter, Karl H. ed. "Śāntideva." In Bibliography: Part 1, Texts Whose Authors Can Be Dated; Authors Listed Chronologically, 5th through 9th Century. Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies. Online edition. Last updated Apr 15, 2020. https://faculty.washington.edu/kpotter/xtxt2.htm.

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Śāntideva (ཞི་བ་ལྷ་). Śikṣāsamuccaya [शिक्षासमुच्चय]. bslab pa kun las btus pa [བསླབ་པ་ཀུན་ལས་བཏུས་པ།]. [The Compendium of Training]. Tengyur, RKTST 3281 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3281&typ=2.

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Gelek, Ngawang. Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life: An Oral Explanation of Chapter 8; Concentration. Transcription of Teachings, 2004. Ann Arbor: Jewel Heart, 2008.

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Gelek, Ngawang. Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life: An Oral Explanation of Chapter 6; Patience. Transcription of Teachings, 2000–2002. Ann Arbor: Jewel Heart, 2010.

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Prajñāpāramitā - A class of Mahāyāna sūtras which represents some of the earliest known literature of this genre of Buddhism. There are around forty texts associated with this category, though the most widespread is the exceedingly brief Prajñāpāramitāhṛdayasūtra, popularly known as the Heart Sūtra. This class of literature is typically associated with the second turning of the dharma wheel and especially with the teachings on emptiness (śūnyatā). As such, these texts were the primary scriptural source for the philosophy of the Madhyamaka school. Skt प्रज्ञापारमिता  Tib ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་ and ཤེར་ཕྱིན་  Ch 般若波羅蜜多  

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