- Superiority Conceit in Buddhist Traditions
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- I. Buddhist Androcentrism
- Introduction
- 1. Nuns
- 2. Decline and Revival
- 3. The Legal Problem
- 4. A Legal Solution
- 5. Apprehensions
- 6. The Prediction of Decline
- 7. Problems with the Prediction of Decline
- 8. After the Buddha’s Demise
- 9. The Buddha’s Refusal
- 10. Narrative Strategies of Devaluation
- 11. Ancient Roots of Misogyny
- 12. Positive Images of Women
- 13. The Buddha as a Male
- 14. Only Males Become Buddhas
- 15. The Buddha’s Past Lives as a Male
- Summary
- II. Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Introduction
- 1. The Conception of the Buddha’s Marks
- 2. The Role of the Buddha’s Mark
- 3. Past and Future Buddhas
- 4. Maitreya and Kassapa Buddha
- 5. The Buddha Gotama’s Motivation
- 6. Changing Conceptions of Compassion
- 7. Burning for the Buddha
- 8. The Superiority of Bodhisattvas
- 9. The Luminous Mind
- 10. The Need for Authentication
- 11. Hīnayāna Rhetoric
- 12. The Superiority of the Mahāyāna
- 13. Superior among Superiors
- 14. In Defence of the Mahāyāna
- Summary
- III. Theravāda Buddhism
- Introduction
- 1. Theravāda
- 2. Pāli
- 3. The Bodhisattva Ideal
- 4. The Buddha’s Omniscience
- 5. Authenticating the Abhidharma
- 6. The Five Aggregates and Mindfulness
- 7. Mindfulness of Breathing
- 8. The Divine Abodes
- 9. Dependent Arising
- 10. Momentariness
- 11. Dukkha
- 12. Not Self
- 13. Clinging and Awakening
- 14. The Stages of Purification and Awakening
- 15. Insight Meditation
- 16. Absorption
- Summary
- IV. Secular Buddhism
- Copyright
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