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The path of the Buddha

Buddhism interpreted by Buddhists

Edited by

KENNETH W. MORGAN

University Chaplain and Professor of religion

Colgate University

THE RONALD PRESS COMPANY. NEW YORK

PREFACE

This book presents Buddhism from the Buddhist point of view. It is an earnest attempt on the part of eleven devout Buddhist scholars to describe the beliefs and practice of the Buddhist world twenty-five centuries after the Buddha.

Recognition of the need for such a book grew out of conversations among Fellows of the National council on Religion in Higher Education. It was agreed that a fuller understanding of the leading non- Christian religions requires books written by men speaking from the point of view of their own faith, and edited by a Western to make sure that the meaning would be clear to readers brought up in  the Greek – Hebrew- Christian tradition. Such books, it was predicted, would be valuable to all who wished to understand the role played by religion in the lives and culture of a greater part of the world.

In an effort to meet this need the Edward W. Hazen foundation made possible the publication three years ago of the first book of this kind. Seven Hindu scholars wrote, and I edited, The Religion of the Hindus. The interest shown in that volume has given encouragement for the task of preparing this book on Buddhism, using methods similar to those used before.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

1.                  ORIGIN AND EXPANSION OF BUDDHISM

Bhikhu J. Kashyap, Honorary Director, Nalanda Pali

Postgruadate Institute, Nalanda, India

2.                  THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THERAVADA BUDDHISM

Maha Thera U Thittila, Lecturer in Buddhist Philosophy,

University of Rangoon, Burma

3.                  BUDDHISM IN THERAVADA COUNTRIES

The Venerable Balangoda Ananda Maitreya, Chief Nayaka

Thero of the Sudhamma Sect, Balangoda, Ceylon

4.                  DEVELOPMENT OF MAHAYNA BUDDHIST BELIEFS

Susumu Yamaguchi, President and Professor of Mahayana

Buddhism, Otani University, Kyoto, Japan

5.                  BUDDHISM IN CHINA AND KOREA

Zenryu Tsukamoto, President of Institute of Humanistic Studies and Director of Research in Religion, University of Kyoto, Japan

6.                  BUDDHISM IN TIBET

Lobsang Phuntsok Lhalungpa, Official of the Tibetan Government, Kalimpong, India

7.                  BUDDHISM IN JAPAN

Shinsho Hanayama, Professor of Indian Philosophy, University of Tokyo, Japan

                  Mitsuyuki Ishida, Professor of Buddhist Philosophy, Ryukoku University,

                  Kyoto, Japan

                  Reiho Masunaga , Professor of Buddhist Philosophy and Zen Buddhism,

                  Komazawa University, Tokyo, Japan

                  Shobun Kubota, Professor of Sociology, Rissho University, Tokyo, Japan

CHAPTER

8.                  UNITY AND DIVERSITY IN BUDDHISM

Hajime Nakamura, Professor of Indian Philosophy, university of Tokyo, Japan

BIBLIOGRAPHY

GLOSSARY

INDEX

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