CONTENTS.
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Abbreviations | xiii | |
General Introduction | xv | |
CHAPTER I. | ||
THE BUDDHA. | ||
Introductory Discourse | 1 | |
§ 1. | The Story of Sumedha | 5 |
2. | A List of former Buddhas | 32 |
3. | The Characteristics of a Future Buddha | 33 |
4. | The Birth of The Buddha | 38 |
5. | The young Gotamid Prince | 48 |
6. | The Great Retirement | 56 |
7. | The Great Struggle | 67 |
8. | The Attainment of Buddhaship | 71 |
9. | First Events after the Attainment of Buddhaskip | 83 |
10. | The Conversion of Sāriputta and Moggallāna | 87 |
11. | The Buddha’s daily Habits | 91 |
12. | The Death of The Buddha | 95 |
CHAPTER II. | ||
SENTIENT EXISTENCE. | ||
Introductory Discourse | 111 | |
§ 13. | Questions which tend not to Edification | 117 |
14. | King Milinda and Nāgasena come to an Understanding | 128 |
15. | There is no Ego | 129 |
16. | All Signs of an Ego are Absent | 146 |
17. | No continuous Personal Identity | 148 |
18. | The Mind less permanent than the Body | 150 |
19. | What is Unity or One? | 153 |
20. | Analysis of the Human Being | 155 |