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Buddhism, in Its Connexion with Brahmanism and Hinduism, and in Its Contrast with ChristianityMonier-Williams, Monier, Sir

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Buddhism, in Its Connexion with Brahmanism and Hinduism, and in Its Contrast with Christianity

Name: Buddhism, in Its Connexion with Brahmanism and Hinduism, and in Its Contrast with Christianity
Author: Monier-Williams, Monier, Sir

Monier-Williams, Monier, Sir

Buddhism; Buddhism -- Relations -- Christianity; Christianity and other religions -- Buddhism; India -- Religion

The philosophy of Buddhism founded on that of Brāhmanism. Three ways
      of salvation in Brāhmanism. The Buddha’s one way of salvation. All
      life is misery. Indian pessimistic philosophy. Twelve-linked chain
      of causation. Celebrated Buddhist formula. The Buddha’s attitude
      towards the Sāṅkhya and Vedānta philosophy of the Brāhmans. The
      Buddha’s negation of spirit and of a Supreme Being. Brāhmanical
      theory of metempsychosis. The Buddhist Skandhas. The Buddhist
      theory of transmigration. Only six forms of existence. The
      Buddha’s previous births. Examples given of stories of two of his
      previous births. Destiny of man dependent on his own acts.
      Re-creative force of acts. Act-force creating worlds. No knowledge
      of the first act. Cycles of the Universe. Interminable succession
      of existences like rotation of a wheel. Buddhist Kalpas or ages.
      Thirty-one abodes of six classes of beings rising one above the
      other in successive tiers of lower worlds and three sets of
      heavens                                                      93-122


                              LECTURE VI.
    The Morality of Buddhism and its chief aim—Arhatship or Nirvāṇa.

  Inconsistency of a life of morality in Buddhism. Division of the moral
      code. First five and then ten chief rules of moral conduct.
      Positive injunctions. The ten fetters binding a man to existence.
      Seven jewels of the Law. Six (or ten) transcendent virtues.
      Examples of moral precepts from the Dharma-pada and other works.
      Moral merit easily acquired. Aim of Buddhist morality. External
      and internal morality. Inner condition of heart. Four paths or
      stages leading to Arhatship or moral perfection. Three grades of
      Arhats. Series of Buddhas. Gautama the fourth Buddha of the
      present age, and last of twenty-five Buddhas. The future Buddha.
      Explanation of Nirvāṇa and Pari-nirvāṇa as the true aim of
      Buddhist morality. Buddhist and Christian morality contrasted
                                                                  123-146


                              LECTURE VII.
         Changes in Buddhism and its disappearance from India.

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