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  • Tên sách : The Questions Of King Milinda Part I
  • Tác giả : T. W. Rhys Davids
  • Dịch giả :
  • Ngôn ngữ : Anh
  • Số trang : 320
  • Nhà xuất bản : Dover Publication, Inc. New York
  • Năm xuất bản : 1963
  • Phân loại : Sách tiếng Anh-English
  • MCB : 12010000005468
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  • Tóm tắt :

THE QUESTIONS OF KING MILINDA

Translated from the Pali by

T. W. Rhys Davids

In two parts

Part I

Dover Publication, Inc.

New York

 

INTRODUCTION

The work of which a translation is here, for the first time, presented to the English reading public, has had a strange and interesting history. Written in Northern India, at or a little after the beginning of the Christian era, and either in Sanskrit itself or in some North India Prakrit, it has been entirely lost in the land of its origin, and (so far as is at present known) is not extant in any of the homes of the various sects and schools of the Buddhists, except only in Ceylon, and in those countries which have derived their Buddhism from Ceylon. It is true that General Cunningham sayss that the name of Milinda ‘is still famous in all Buddhist countries’. But he is here drawing a very wide conclusion from an isolated fact. For in his note he refers only to Hardy, who is good evidence for Ceylon, but who does not even say that the ‘Milinda’was known elsewhere.

                     

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

            The Simhalese version of the Milinda

            Buddhaghosa’s four references to it

            MSS, and edition of the text

            King Milinda the same as Menander

            Notices of him in classical writers

            His coins

            His birthplace, Kalasi, probably= Karisi

            The author not the same as Nâgârguna

            Passages in the Pitakas referred to silently

            Pâli books, &c., referred to by name

            Pitaka passages quoted

            Length of the Pitakas

            Results of these comparisons

            Differences between our author and the Pitakas

            Proper names outside the Pitakas

            Differences of language between our author and the Pitakas

            The Milinda as a work of art

TRANSLATION OF THE TEXT

            BOOK I. the Secular Narrative

                        Description of Sâgala

                        Previous births of Milinda and Nâgasena

                        Milinda’s greatness and wisdom and love of disputation

                        Birth story of Nâgasena

                        His admission as a novice into the Order

                        His conversion

                        His attainment of Arahaship

                        Milinda confutes Âyupâla

                        Nâgasena arrives; his character

                        Milinda goes to him

            BOOK II. The Distinguishing Characteristics of Ethical Qualities

                        Individual and name

                        The chariot simile

                        The riddle of sensority

                        (Interlude) How kings and scholars respectively discuss

                        No soul in the breath

                        Aim of Buddhist renunciation

                        Re- incarnation

                        Wisdom and reasoning distinguished

                        ‘Virtue’s the base’

                        Faith

                        Perseverance

                        Mindfulness

                        Meditation

                        Continued identity and re-individualisation

                        Wisdom and intelligence distinguished

                        Time

                        Origin and intelligence distinguished

                        Is there a soul?

                        Thought and sight

                        Contact, sensation, and idea

            BOOK III. The Removal of Difficulties

                        Rich and poor

                        Renunciation again

                        Nirvâna and Karma

                        Difficulties of various kinds as to transmigration, indivuduality, and the

                        Buddha

            BOOK IV. The solving of Dilemmas

                        Milinda finds dilemmas in the Holy Writ

                        And takes the Buddhist vows

                        Third meeting between him and Nâgasena

                        1st Dilemma. If the Buddha has really quite passed away, what is the good

                        Paying honour to his relics?

                        2nd Dilemma. How can the Buddha be omniscient, when it is said that he                            reflects?

                        3rd Dilemma. Why did he admit Devadatta to the Order, if he knew of the                                     schism he would create?

                        4th Dilemma. Vessantara’s earthquake

                        5th Dilemma. King Sivi

                        7th Dilemma. Difference in prophecies as to the duration of the faith

                        8th Dilemma. The Buddha’s sinlessness and his sufferings?

                        9th Dilemma. Why should the Buddha have meditiated?

                        10th Dilemma. Why did the Buddha boast?

                        11th Dilemma. How could the Buddha revoke regulations he had made?

                        12th Dilemma. Why did the Buddha refuse to answer certain questions?

                        13th Dilemma. Contradictory statements by the Buddha as to fear

                        14th Dilemma. How can Pirit cure disease?

                        15th Dilemma. How could the evil one turn people against the Buddha?

                        16th Dilemma. Contradiction as to conscious crime

                        17th Dilemma. Contradiction as to the Buddha’s wish to be the chief

                        18th Dilemma. How could a schism have arisen in the Buddha’s life?

                        19th Dilemma. Why do members of the Order accept reverence?

                        20th Dilemma. The evil results of preaching

                        22nd Dilemma. Was not the Buddha once angry with Sudinna?

                        23rd Dilemma. The tree talking

                        24th Dilemma. The Buddha’s last meal

                        25th Dilemma. Adoration of relics

                        26th Dilemma. The splinter of rock

                        27th Dilemma. Contradictory description of the Samana

                        28th Dilemma. Buddha’s boasting

                        29th Dilemma. How can the kind punish others?

                        30th Dilemma. Was not the Buddha angry at Kâtumâ?

                        31st Dilemma. How could Moggallâna have had miraculous powers seeing

                                    That he was murdered?

                        32nd Dilemma. Why should the rules of the Order be kept secret?

                        33rd Dilemma. Contradictions about falsehood

                        34th Dilemma. Did not the Omniscient One once doubu?

                        35th Dilemma. Suicide

                        36th Dilemma. Love to all beings

                        37th Dilemma. Wickedness and prosperity

                        38th Dilemma. Women’s wiles

                        39th Dilemma. Did not the Arahats once show fear?

                        40th Dilemma. Did not the Omniscient One once change his mind?

Appendix. Devadatta in the Gâtakas

Addenda et Corrigenda

Index f Proper Names

Index of Subjects

 

Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets adopted for the Translations of the Sacred Books of the East

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