Eberhard (alias) Edward Conze
[18.03.1904 - 24.09.1979]
books | manuscripts | misc.
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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 & 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 & dharmas … 92 |
| 8. Skandhas, sense-fields & elements … 107 |
| Part II. THE STHAVIRAS [119-191] |
| 1. The division into eigtheen schools … 119 |
| 2. Doctrinal disputes … 121 |
| 3. The Unconditioned & 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 … 230 |
| 3. The Yogācārins … 238 |
| 4. Buddhist Logic … 261 |
| 5. The Tantras … 270 |
| Notes & references … 275 |
| Abbreviations … 294 |
| Index … 298-302 |
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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 Heart 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
