Eberhard (alias) Edward Conze
[18.03.1904 - 24.09.1979]
books | manuscripts | misc.
Buddhist Thought in India Three Phases of Buddhist Philosophy London 1962 rev 1983 |
Preface … 7-10 |
Part I. ARCHAIC BUDDHISM [17-116] |
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1. Tacit assumptions … 17 |
2. The problem of 'original Buddhism' … 31 |
3. The three marks and the perverted views … 34 |
4. The five cardinal virtues … 47 |
5. The final stages of deliverance … 56 |
6. The cultivation of the social emotions … 80 |
7. Dharma and dharmas … 92 |
8. Skandhas, sense-fields and elements … 107 |
Part II. THE STHAVIRAS [119-191] |
1. The division into eigtheen schools … 119 |
2. Doctrinal disputes … 121 |
3. The Unconditioned and the process of salvation … 159 |
4. Some Abhidharma problems … 178 |
Part III. THE MAHĀYĀNA [195-274] |
1. Doctrines common to all Mahāyānists … 195 |
2. The Mādhyamikas … 238 |
3. The Yogācārins … 230 |
4. Buddhist logic … 261 |
5. The Tantras … 270 |
Notes and references … 275 |
Abbreviations … 294 |
Index … 298-302 |
»A close study of tradition shows that it is useful to distinguish 32 kinds of emptiness - corresponding to the five levels of insight to which the Hṛdaya alludes in its mantra« [Buddhist Thought in India, p. 244] |
You can never do anything
which does not do itself
Memoirs, Part II: p. 65