BUDDHA AND THE GOSPEL OF BUDDHISM
By Nanda K. Coomaraswamy illustrated
Revised by Dona Luisa Coomaraswamy
Harper Torchbooks
The Cloiter Library
Harper & Row, Publishers
New York, Evanston, and London
CONTENTS
PART I : THE LIFE OF THE BUDDHA
PART II : THE GOSPEL OF EARLY
I Dhamma
II Samsãra and Kamma (Karma)
III Buddhist heavens and how to reach them
IV Nibbãna
V Ethics
VI Conscience
VII Spiritual exercises
VIII Consolation
IX the order
X Tolerance
XI Women
XII Early Buddhism and nature
XIII Buddhist pessimism
XIV A Buddhist emperor
PART III: CONTEMPORARY SYSTEMS
I. Vedanta
II. Sãmkhya
III. Yoga
IV. Buddhism and Brãhmanism
PART IV : THE MAHÃYÃNA
I Beginnings of the Mahãyãna
II System of the Mahãyãna
III Ch’an or Zen Buddhism
PART V : BUDDHIST ART
I Literature
II Sculpture and painting
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
NOTE OF THE PUBLISHER
BUDDHA AND THE GOSPEL OF BUDDHISM
By Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
“ Dr. Coomaraswamy has aimed to set forth the Gospel of Buddhism as simply as possible according to the Buddhist scriptures and to expound the Buddhist systems both in relation to their Brahmanical origins and to anological system of Christian Mysticism. He has a concluding section on Buddhist art. The Western reader does not often have the chance to consider so lucid an exposition of these matters by an authority on Buddhism who is also keenly aware of the traditions of the West” – The Times [London] Literary Supplement.