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• Title:Buddhisms : an introduction / John S. Strong.
  
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• Author/Creator:Strong, John, 1948- author.
  
• Published/Created:London, England : Oneworld Publications, 2015.
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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: BQ4022 .S77 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Buddhism.
  
• Medical Subjects: Buddhism
  
• Description:xxv, 450 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"Buddhism or Buddhisms? By the time they move on to Buddhism in Japan, many students who have studied its origins in India ask whether this is in fact the same religion, so different can they appear. In Buddhisms: An Introduction, Professor John S. Strong provides an overview of the Buddhist tradition in all its different forms around the world. Beginning at the modern day temples of Lumbini, where the Buddha was born, Strong takes us through the life of the Buddha and a study of Buddhist Doctrine, revealing how Buddhism has changed just as it has stayed the same. Finally, Strong examines the nature of Buddhist community life and its development today in the very different environments of Thailand, Japan, and Tibet. Enriched by the author's own insights gathered over forty years, Buddhisms never loses sight of the personal experience amidst the wide-scope of its subject. Clear in its explanations, replete with tables and suggestions for further reading, this is an essential new work that makes original contributions to the study of this 2,500 year-old religion."--Back cover.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-442) and index.
  
• ISBN:1780745052 (paperback)
  9781780745053 (paperback)
  9781780745060 (ebook)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction: Lumbini, A Buddhist World Exposition
  1.1. Theravada and Mahayana
  1.2. Lumbini's Eastern Monastic Zone: South and Southeast Asian Traditions
  1.2.1. Maha Bodhi Society
  1.2.2. Sri Lanka Monastery
  1.2.3. Gautami Center for Nuns
  1.2.4. Myanmar (Burma)
  1.2.5. Meditation Centers
  1.3. Lumbini's Western Monastic Zone: East Asian Traditions
  1.3.1. China
  1.3.2. Korea
  1.3.3. Japan
  1.3.4. Vietnam
  1.4. Lumbini's Western Monastic Zone: Tibetan Vajrayana Traditions
  1.4.1. Great Lotus Stiipa
  1.4.2. Lumbini Udyana Mahachaitya
  ch. 2 Sakyamuni, Lives And Legends
  2.1. Historical Buddha
  2.2. Buddha's World
  2.3. Buddha of Story
  2.4. Past Buddhas and the Biographical Blueprint
  2.5. Start of kikyamuni's Career
  2.6. Previous Lives (Jatakas)
  2.6.1. Donkey in the Lion's Skin
  2.6.2. Vessantara Jataka
  2.6.3. Tigress Jataka
  2.7. Lifestory of Sakyamuni
  2.7.1. Birth and Childhood
  2.7.2. Life in the Palace
  2.7.3. Beginnings of Discontent
  2.7.4. Great Departure
  2.7.5. Paths Not Taken
  2.7.6. Awakening
  2.7.7. After Enlightenment
  2.7.8. First Sermon
  2.7.9. Various Conversions and Miracles
  2.7.10. Death and Parinirvana
  ch. 3 Overcoming The Buddha's Absence
  3.1. Seeing the Buddha in the Dharma
  3.1.1. Excursus on the Buddhist Canon
  3.2. Places of Pilgrimage
  3.3. Relics
  3.4. Buddha Images
  3.5. Masters of the Dharma
  3.6. Arhat Dharma-Protectors
  3.7. Meeting Maitreya
  ch. 4 Some Permutations Of The Middle Way
  4.1. Middle Way
  4.2. Karma and Sarpseira
  4.2.1. Why Do Good Deeds?
  4.2.2. Contexts of Karma I: Neither Free Will nor Determinism
  4.2.3. Contexts of Karma II: Both Jain and Upanisadic Views
  4.3. Doctrine of Non-Self (Anatman)
  4.3.1. Breaking Down the False Sense of Self: the Five Aggregates and Impermanence
  4.3.2. Elements (Dharmas)
  4.3.3. Countering the Breakdown of Self: Personal Continuity
  4.3.4. Explications of Continuity: Pseudo-Selves and Ersatz Atmans
  4.4. Summary
  ch. 5 Four Truths
  5.1. First Truth: Stress
  5.2. Second Truth: the Continual Arising of Stress and Interdependent Origination
  5.2.1. Double Bind of Samsara
  5.3. Third Truth: the Cessation of Stress - Nirvana
  5.4. Fourth Truth: the Path to the Cessation of Stress
  5.4.1. Moral Discipline
  5.4.2. Meditation
  5.4.3. Wisdom
  5.5. Other Systematizations of the Path
  5.5.1. Seven Factors Conducive to Enlightenment
  5.5.2. Graduated Training
  5.5.3. Four Divine Abidings
  5.5.4. Four Fruits of the Path
  5.6. Summary
  ch. 6 Establishment And Character Of The Early Buddhist Community
  6.1. Monastic-Lay Interactions
  6.1.1. Dana (Giving) and Other Forms of Making Merit
  6.1.2. Lay Ethics
  6.1.3. Magical Protection
  6.1.4. Laypersons and the Monastic Rules
  6.1.5. Royal Supporters
  6.1.6. King Asoka
  6.2. Monastics: Wandering and Settling
  6.2.1. Monastic Lifestyles
  6.2.2. Monasteries
  6.3. Mahaprajapati and the Establishment of the Order of Nuns
  6.4. Common Moral Commitments 18o
  6.5. Initiation Rituals: Wandering Forth and Ordination
  6.6. Monastic Rules
  6.6.1. Elaboration of the Disciplinary Code
  6.6.2. Enforcement of the Rules: Pratimoksa Recitation and Pravarana
  6.7. Some Exemplary Disciples of the Buddha
  6.7.1. Sariputra and Maudgalyayana
  6.7.2. Patacara
  6.7.3. Laypersons Nakulapitr and Nakulamatr
  6.7.4. Visakha, Preeminent Laywoman
  6.8. Summary
  ch. 7 Visions And Divisions Of The Samgha
  7.1. Council Stories
  7.1.1. Council at Rajagrha
  7.1.2. Vinaya Disputes: the Council of Vaikili
  7.1.3. Councils of Pritaliputra
  7.1.4. Other Council Traditions
  7.2. Flowering of Mainstream Factionalism
  7.3. Other Divisional Issues
  7.3.1. Practice vs. Study
  7.3.2. Meditators and Merit Makers
  7.3.3. Forest Monks and Town Monks
  7.3.4. Question of Asceticism
  7.3.5. Question of Bon-Vivant Monks
  7.3.6. Sect vs. Sect
  7.4. Origins of the Mahayana
  7.5. Proliferation of Mahayana Schools
  7.5.1. Mahayana Schools in India
  7.5.2. Mahayana Schools in China
  7.5.3. Mahayana Schools in Japan
  7.5.4. Mahayana Schools in Tibet
  7.6. Summary
  ch. 8 Mahayana And Vajrayana Ways Of Meeting The Buddha
  8.1. Changes in the View of the Buddha: the Lotus Sutra and Sakyamuni's Lifespan
  8.2. Three Bodies of the Buddha
  8.3. Meeting the Buddha in Their Pure Lands
  8.3.1. Aksobhya
  8.3.2. Bhaisajyaguru
  8.4. Amitabha
  8.4.1. Meeting Amitabha through Visualization
  8.4.2. Rebirth in the Pure Land
  8.5. Meeting the Buddha in the Great Bodhisattvas
  8.5.1. Avalokitesvara
  8.5.2. Other Great Bodhisattvas
  8.6. Meeting the Buddha in the Vajrayana
  8.6.1. Mandalas and the Five Tathagatas
  8.6.2. Ritual Consecration (Abhiseka)
  8.6.3. Merging with the Buddha
  8.6.4. Visions: Meeting the Buddha in Bardo
  8.6.5. Buddha Embodiments in This World: Gurus and Tülkus
  8.7. Summary
  ch. 9 Mahayana Doctrinal Developments
  9.1. Emptiness: the Selflessness of Dharmas
  9.2. Nagarjuna and the Madhyamaka
  9.3. Expansion of Provisional Truth: Expedient Means (Upaya)
  9.4. Tiantai Doctrines
  9.5. Ongoing Dialectic: the Yogacara School
  9.5.1. Asanga and Vasubandhu and the Development of the School
  9.5.2. Yogacara Doctrines
  9.6. Avatamsaka Doctrines
  9.6.1. Applications of Interpenetration
  9.7. Buddha Womb/Embryo (Tathagatagarbha) Teachings
  9.7.1. Resurgence of the True Self
  9.8. Buddha-Nature Controversies
  9.8.1. Limitations to the Buddha-Nature: the Icchantika Debate
  9.8.2. End of the Dharma
  9.8.3. Expansions of the Buddha-Nature Doctrine
  9.9. Summary
  ch. 10 Bodhisattva Path, Tantra, And Zen
  10.1. Bodhisattva Path
  10.2. Sudden and Gradual
  10.2.1. Disagreements over the Nature of the Path: the Debate at Samyé
  10.2.2. Disagreements over the Nature of Enlightenment
  10.3. Graduated Paths
  10.3.1. Compassion and Bodhicitta
  10.3.2. Stages of the Path, the Perfections, the Five Paths
  10.3.3. Routinization and Ritualization
  10.4. Path Shortcuts
  10.5. Tantra
  10.5.1. Uniting the Poles
  10.5.2. Tantric Physiology
  10.5.3. Mahamudra and Dzokchen (Rdzogs chen)
  10.6. Direct Experiences: Chan/Zen
  10.6.1. Koans
  10.6.2. Critical Phrases (Huatou)
  10.7. Summary
  ch. 11 Samgha Situations: Places, Persons, And Practices In Thai Buddhism
  11.1. Buddhism in Thailand
  11.2. Thai Monastic Life: Temporary Ordination
  11.2.1. Life as a Novice
  11.2.2. Experiences as a Monk
  11.3. Lives of Two Charismatic Thai Monks
  11.3.1. Acharn Mun
  11.3.2. Khruba Siwichai
  11.4. End of the Rains-Retreat in a Northern Thai Village
  11.5. Thai Temple in Wimbledon, England
  ch. 12 Samgha Situations: Places, Persons, And Practices In Japanese Buddhism
  12.1. Hexagonal Hall (Rokkakudo)
  12.1.1. Prince Shotoku
  12.1.2. Shinran
  12.1.3. Kannon, Jizo, and Fudo
  12.2. Ritual Year at Shinnyodo
  12.2.1. New Year's
  12.2.2. Dakini and the Recitation of the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra
  12.2.3. Main Hall Rituals
  12.2.4. Goma
  12.2.5. Killing Stone
  12.3. Ryoanji Rock Garden
  12.4. Buddha's Birthday at the Morgan Bay Zendo
  12.5. Japan Temple in Lumbini
  12.6. Conclusion
  ch. 13 Samgha Situations: Places, Persons, And Practices In Tibetan Buddhism
  13.1. Lhasa Jokhang
  13.1.1. Pinning Down the Demoness
  13.1.2. Flood Control
  13.1.3. Grand Prostrations
  10.1.4. Great Prayer Festival
  13.2. Potala and the Dalai Lamas
  13.2.1. Finding a New Dalai Lama
  13.3. Scholars and Mad Saints
  13.3.1. Drepung Monastery and Monastic Studies
  13.3.2. Mad Monks: the Case of Tangtong Gyalpo
  13.4. Samding: Female Incarnations and a Contemporary Buddhist
  13.5. Tibetan Dharma Center in Vermont, U.S.A.
  13.6. Conclusion
  Appendix A: A Short Chronology of Buddhism in India
  Appendix B: A Short Chronology of Buddhism in Sri Lanka
  Appendix C: A Short Chronology of Buddhism in Myanmar (Burma)
  Appendix D: A Short Chronology of Buddhism in Cambodia
  Appendix E: A Short Chronology of Buddhism in Thailand
  Appendix F: A Short Chronology of Buddhism in China
  Appendix G: A Short Chronology of Buddhism in Japan
  Appendix H: A Short Chronology of Buddhism in Vietnam
  Appendix I: A Short Chronology of Buddhism in Tibet.