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WORLD OF THE BUDDHA

A READER

Edited with introduction and Commentaries by

            LUCIEN STRYK

Doubleday & Company, Inc

Garden City, New York

1968

CONTENTS

Foreword

Introduction : Buddhism and modern man the realism of Buddhist aims

      A measure of the Buddha’s achievement

      The Theravada and Mahayana school

      The Noble truths

      Karma and Samsara

      Neither pessimist nor optimist

      The quest for peace

      Buddhism and modern science

      The ten stages of enlightenment

I     Jãtaka tales

      The ass in the lion’s skin

      Quail , crow, fly, frog, and elephants

      The hare-mark in the moon

II    Life of the Buddha

      From the Buddha-Karita of Asvaghosha

      The great retirement

      The great struggle and the attainment of Buddhaship

      The death of the Buddha

III  “The Going Forth” and two sermons

      “The going Forth”

      The Sermon at Benares

      The fire sermon

IV  The Dhammapada

      Old age

      The world

      The Buddha-the awakened

      Thirst

      The Brâhmana

V   “Is there a life after death?”

      Parables from the long discourses on the subject: “Is there a life after death?”

      The condemned criminal

      The man in the Dung-Pit

      Time in heaven

      The blind man

      The woman with child

      We cannot see the soul during life

      Heat makes things light

      Villagers and trumpet

      The search for fire

      Two caravan-leaders

      Dung for fodder

      Two dicers

      Giving up better for worse

VI  Questions of Milinda

      There is no permanent individuality

      Chariot

      There is no continuous personal identity

      Embryo and flame

      Milk and butter

      What, then, is reborn?

      Theft of mangoes

      Fire in a field

      Lamp under a thatch

      Girl and woman

      Milk and curds

      Germ and egg

      Time has no beginning

      Seed and fruit

      Egg and hen

      Circle

      Out of nothing comes nothing

      Timbers and house

      Seed and plants

      Clay and vessels

      Lyre and sound

      Fire-drill and fire

      Burning-glass and fire

      Mirror and reflection

      There is no soul

      Six doors of the senses

      Men in palace

      Man outside of gateway

      Man in trough of honey

      Why does not the fire of hell

      Destroy the Denizens of hell?

      Embryo of reptiles and birds

      Embryo of beasts of prey

      Human embryo

      Nibbãna is unalloyed bliss

      Bliss of sovereignty

      Bliss of knowledge

      Nibbãna is unlike anything else

      Unlike anything else is the great ocean

      Unlike anything else are the gods

      Without form

      One quality of the lotus

      Two qualities of water

      Three qualities of medicine

      Four qualities of the great ocean

      Five qualities of food

      Ten qualities of space

      Three qualities of the wishing-jewel

      Three qualities of red-Sandalwood

      Three qualities of the cream of Ghee

      Five qualities of a mountain-peak

      Nibbãna is neither past nor future nor

      Present

      Escape from a bon-fire

      Escape from a heap of corpses

      Escape from peril

      Escape from mud

      Red-hot iron ball

      Bon-fire

      Traveler who has lost his way

      Nibbãna is not a place

      Fields and crops

      Fire-sticks and fire

      Seven jewels of a king

      How do we know that the Buddha ever existed?

      The builder of a city is known by his city

      So is the Buddha known by his city of righteousness?

      Flower-shop of the Buddha

      Perfume-shop of the Buddha

      Fruit- shop of the Buddha

      Buyer and seller of mangoes

      Medicine –shop of the Buddha

      Herb-shop of the Buddha

      Ambrosia-shop of the Buddha

      Jewel-shop of the Buddha

      Jewel of Morality

      Jewel of concentration

      Jewel of wisdom

      Jewel of deliverance

      Jewel of insight through knowledge of deliverance

      Jewel of the analytical powers

      Jewel of the prerequisites of enlightenment

      General shop of the Buddha

      The pure practices

VIIquestions which tend not to edification

      Sermon number

VIII     Buddhaghosa

      The composition of the body

      On getting angry

      Inanimate nature

      Name and form

      Ignorance

      Forty subjects of meditation

      World-cycles

      The story of Kisagotami

IX  Short passages, chiefly from the Nikãyas

      Meditation and contemplation

      Go not by hearsay

      Right views and heresies

      Marvels

      Caste

      Animals

      Deeds and transmigration

      The way

      Crossing over

      Rivers of life and death

      The great ocean

      Transcendent

      On various subjects

X   Rhinoceros discourse

XI  The Tevigga Sutta : the Buddha and the Brahmans

XIIMonks and lay followers

      The Pãtimokkba

      The moralities

      Concentration leading to Samãdhi:

            The four trances

      The eight stages of release

      Duties of the lay followers

XIII     Emperor Ashoka : the edicts

      From the thirteenth rock edict

      From a minor rock edict (Maski version)

      From the second rock edict

      From the sixth rock edict

      From the first separate Kalinga edict

      From the fourth pillar edict

      From the eight rock edict

      From the twelfth rock edict

      From the ninth rock edict

      From the seventh pillar edict

XIV     from the Dipavamsa

XV      Asvaghosha

      The doctrine of suchness

XVI     from the Mahãvastu

XVII    Mahayana Sutras

A.    from the lotus of the good law

1.      the lost son

2.      exertion

3.      Duration of life of the Tathâgata  

B.     from the explanations of Vimalakĩti

C.     From the Vicesacinta-brahma-pariprecha Sutra

D.    From the Avatamsaka Sutra

E.     From the Lankãvatãra Sutra

XVIII  Nãgãrjuna

      From the discourse on the middle path

      From the Bodhicitta

      From Pingalaka, a commentator on Nãgãrjuna

XIX     Asanga and Vasubandhu, others

      From Asanga’s Mahâyâna-Sangraha-Castra

      From the general treatise on Mahayanism by Asanga and Vasubandhu

      From Sthiramati’s discourse on the Mahâyậna-Dharmadhâtu

      From Devala’s Mahâpurusa

XX      Shãntideva

      Selections

XXI     Tibetan Buddhism

      The performance

      Consecration

      The yoga of the Nirvãnic path

      From the yoga of knowing the mind

      The explanation of the names given to this wisdom

      The yoga of the thatness

XXII    I-Tsing

      Such actions were not practised by the Virtuous of old

1.      The wide learning of my teacher

2.      the immense ability of my teacher

3.      My teacher’s intelligence

4.      the liberality of My teacher

5.      The loving-kindness of my teacher

6.      My teacher’s devotion to work

7.      His fore-knowledge of the decrees of heaven

XXIII  Platform scripture of the sixth patriarch

XXIV  Zen poems

            Dogen

            Muso

            Daito

            Getsudo

            Daichi

            Jakushitsu

            Chikusen

            Betsugen

            Juo

            Shutaku

            Ryushu

            Shunoku

            Tesshu

            Tsugen

            Guchu

            Mumon

            Cido

            Reizan

            Myoyu

            Hakugal

            Nanei

            Kodo

            Ikkuyu

            Genko

            Saisho

            Yuishun

            Takuan

            Gudo

            Karasumaru – Mitsuhiro

            Ungo

            Daigu

            Manan

            Fugai

            Bunan

            Manzan

            Tokuo

            Hakuin

            Sengai

            Kosen

            Tanzan

            Kando

            Shinkichi Takahashi

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