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BUDDHISM IN TRANSLATIONS

Passages Selected from the Buddhist Sacred Books

and Translated from the Original Pali into English by

Henry Clarke Warren

Student’s Edition

Harvard University Press

Cambridge / Massachusetts

1953

PREFACE

            Henry Clarke Warren’s Buddhism in Translations was first published in 1896. It appeared as Volume Three of the Harvard Oriental Series, a series of books founded by the generosity of Warren and at that time edited by teacher and friend Charles R. LAN man. The book long remained the most popular volume of the Series and was reprinted time and again. In the course of the additions were a prefatory note by LAN man, a memorial of Henry Warren’s life, and a descriptive list of other volume of the Series. In the present student’s edition all this supplementary matter has been excluded. Since the cost of publishing has trebled since the time of the first edition, other changes have been made in format and binding. But not a word of Warren’s text has been omitted or changed.

            Warren’s book remains an admirable introduction to than basic teachings of Buddhism. Buddhism studies, it is true, have advanced since Warren’s time; many more texts have been edited and translated. Particularly is this true with regard to Mahayana or Northern Buddhism, with which Warren did not deal. But no one  has organized this new material with the skill which Warren showed in dealing with the material available in his day. The picture of Theravada or Southern Buddhism given by Warren’s selections is singularly well balanced. And his renderings have the special merit of being readable as well as scholarly.

            Warren’s attitude toward Buddhism was one neither  of acceptance nor of disapproval. He disapproved of only open thing: the forming of opinions about Buddhism or India or Asia at second and third hand. It was to help Westerners form an open-ion of Buddhism at close acquaintance that he wrote this book. And it is for the same purpose that his book is now reissued.

                                                                                    DANIEL H. H. INGALLS

                                                                                    Editor, Harvard Oriental Series Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1953

                                                            CONTENTS

Abbreviations                                                                       

General Introduction                                                           

                                                            CHAPTER I

                                                            THE BUDDHA.

Introductory Discourse                                                   1

1.    The Story of Sumedha                                            5

2.    A List of former Buddhas                                        32

3.    The Characteristics                                                  33

4.    The Birth of The Buddha                                        38

5.    The young Gotamid Prince                                     48

6.    The Great Retirement                                              56

…

CHAPTER II.

                                                            SENTIENT EXISTENCE.

Introductory Discourse

13. Questions which tend not to Edification                                         111

14. King Milinda and Nagasena come to an Understanding                117

15. There is no Ego                                                                              129

16. All Signs of an Ego are Absent                                                           146

17. No continuous Personal Identity                                                         148

…

                                                            CHAPTER III.

                                                            KARMA AND REBIRTH.                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Introductory Discourse                                                                    209

38. Be a Friend to Yourself                                                             213

39. The cause of Inequality                                                            214

40. Fruitful and barren Karma                                                        215

41. The Death of Moggallana                                                        221

42. Good and bad Karma                                                                226

43. How to obtain Wealth, Beauty, and Social Position            228

…

                                                            CHAPTER IV.

                                                            MEDITATION AND NIRVANA.

Introductory Discourse                                                                    280                

57. The Way of Purity                                                                      280

58. Concentration                                                                             285

59. The Thirty-one Grades of Being                                              288

60. The Forty Subjects of Meditation                                            289

61. The Earth-kasina                                                                    291

62. Beauty is but Skin-deep                                                          293

…

                                                            CHAPTER V.

                                                            THE ORDER.

Introductory Discourse                                                                    392

80. Conduct                                                                                     393

81. The Admission and Ordination Ceremonies                           401

82. The Serpent who wanted to be a Priest                                 402

83. The Buddhist Confession of Priests                                       411

84. The Order receive leave to dwell in Houses                         414

85. Residence during the Rainy Season                                     417

86. The Mendicant Ideal                                                              414

…

                                                            APPENDIX

103. The Five Groups                                                                      487

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