- Buddhism
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Foreword by Bhante Gunaratana
- Prologue by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- Preface by Venerable Thubten Chodron
- Abbreviations
- 1. Origin and Spread of the Buddha’s Doctrine
- 2. Refuge in the Three Jewels
- 3. Sixteen Attributes of the Four Truths
- 4. The Higher Training in Ethical Conduct
- • The Importance of Ethical Conduct
- • Prātimokṣa Ethical Restraints
- • Why Celibacy?
- • The Vinaya Schools
- • The Value of the Monastic Community
- • Fulfilling the Purpose of Monastic Life
- • Monastics, Priests, and Lay Teachers
- • Tibetan Monastics and Monastic Institutions
- • Challenges for Western Monastics
- • Full Ordination for Women
- • Advice for Monastics
- • The Joy of Monastic Discipline
- • Bodhisattva and Tantric Ethical Restraints
- 5. The Higher Training in Concentration
- • The Importance of Concentration
- • Realms of Existence and Spheres of Consciousness
- • Pāli Tradition
- • Five Hindrances and Five Absorption Factors
- • Four Jhānas
- • Four Immaterial Absorptions
- • Eight Meditative Liberations
- • Superknowledges
- • Sanskrit Tradition
- • Meditation Position and Meditation Objects
- • Five Faults and Eight Antidotes
- • Nine Stages of Sustained Attention
- • Serenity and Further Meditative Absorptions
- • Chinese Buddhism
- 6. The Higher Training in Wisdom: Thirty-Seven Aids to Awakening
- • Four Establishments of Mindfulness
- • Mindfulness of the Body
- • Mindfulness of Feelings
- • Mindfulness of the Mind
- • Mindfulness of Phenomena
- • Four Establishments of Mindfulness for Bodhisattvas
- • Four Supreme Strivings
- • Four Bases of Supernormal Power
- • Five Faculties and Five Powers
- • Seven Awakening Factors
- • The Noble Eightfold Path
- • Conventional and Ultimate Natures of the Thirty-Seven Aids
- 7. Selflessness and Emptiness
- 8. Dependent Arising
- • Twelve Links of Dependent Arising
- • Flow of the Links
- • Who Circles in Saṃsāra?
- • Benefits of Meditating on the Twelve Links of Dependent Arising
- • Sanskrit Tradition: Levels of Dependence
- • Causal Dependence
- • Mutual Dependence
- • Mere Dependent Designation
- • Emptiness and Dependent Arising Are Compatible
- • Pāli Tradition: Terms, Concepts, and Conventions
- 9. Uniting Serenity and Insight
- 10. Progressing on the Path
- 11. The Four Immeasurables
- 12. Bodhicitta
- • Tibetan Buddhism
- • Equanimity
- • Sevenfold Cause-and-Effect Instruction
- • Equalizing and Exchanging Self and Others
- • Self-Interest, Self-Confidence, Self-Centered Attitude, and Self-Grasping Ignorance
- • Integrating the View with Bodhicitta
- • Chinese Buddhism
- • Four Great Vows
- • Aspiring and Engaging Bodhicitta
- • Pāli Tradition: Bodhicitta and Bodhisattas
- 13. Bodhisattva Training in the Perfections
- • Sanskrit Tradition
- • Pāli Tradition: Ten Pāramīs
- • Perfection of Generosity
- • Perfection of Ethical Conduct
- • Perfection of Fortitude
- • Perfection of Joyous Effort
- • Perfections of Meditative Stability and of Renunciation
- • Perfection of Wisdom
- • Perfections of Unshakable Resolve and of Determination
- • Perfections of Skillful Means, Power, and Exalted Wisdom
- • Pāramīs of Truthfulness, Love, and Equanimity
- • The Four Ways of Gathering Disciples
- 14. The Possibility of Awakening and Buddha Nature
- 15. Tantra
- 16. Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- About the Authors
- Also by the Dalai Lama
- Additional Material
- Copyright
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