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EARLY MONASTIC BUDDHISM

By

NALINAKSHA DUTT,  M.A., B.L.,

Premchand Roychand Scholar

(Retd.) Professor of Pali

CalcuttaUniversity

CALCUTTA ORIENTAL BOOK AGENCY

9 Panchanan Ghose Lane

Calcutta-9

1960

CONTENTS

Chapter            I.       Pre-Buddhistic Brãhmanism

Chapter            II       Pre-Buddhistic Non Brãhmanism

Chapter            III     The religieux in ancient India

Chapter            IV     Gautama Buddha

Chapter            V      Missionary Life of Buddha

Chapter            VI     The Four Truths & the Middle Path

Chapter            VII    The Moral Precepts

Chapter            VIII  The Mental Training

Chapter            IX     The Constituents of a Being

Chapter            X      Paticcasamuppãda

Chapter            XI     Anattã Anicca & Dukha

Chapter            XII    Bodhipakkhiyadhamma

Chapter            XIII  The Gradual Stages of Sanctification

Chapter            XIV  The Unconstituted

Chapter            XV   The Tathãgata

Index

PREFACE

The present work is a revised, enlarged and re-arranged edition of my book Early Monastic Buddhism published in 1941. on account of many additions, the extent of the work has appreciably increased, and so it has been thought advisable to confine this volume to the life and teachings of the Founder of the religion. Other aspects of Buddhism will be treated in another book, to be published shortly.

In the first two chapters, the pre-Buddhistic religions have been treated in more details than what is called for, in order to present to our students of Buddhism a picture of what were Vedisism and Brahmanism, against which Buddhism is claimed to be a revolt, offering a distinctly different path  for realizing the summum bonum. As there are little materials for a critical biography of Gautama Buddha, the sketch of his early and missionary life has been embellished with a few traditional accounts. As regards the teachings of the great Master, care has been taken to present only those doctrines found in the sutta Pitaka in Pãli, supplementing them occasionally by expositions of Vasubandhu in his Abhi-dharmakosa, Nãgãjuna in his Madhyamakãrikã and Buddhaghosa, Yasomitra and Candrakĩrti in their commentaries. The whole of the Sutta and Abhidamma Pitakas contain a vast mass of doctrinal expositions, a fringe of which could be touched in this work, but it is hoped that it will serve as a guide and incentive to young scholars who may prefer to dive deep into the Pali textes and commentaries for acquiring a more through and detailed knowledge of the early Buddhist doctrines.

Before I conclude, I should put on record that I undertook and completed this book at the insistent and repeated request of my friend Shri Kanailal Mukherji, for which I must offer to him my best thanks. The Manager of the Calcutta Oriental Press, Shri Asoka Ghosh B.A. also deserves my thanks for carefully and patiently incorporating the various additions and corrections made by me in the proof-stage. Lastly , I should thank my student Miss Kshanika Saha M.A. for patiently reading the proofs and taking great pains in preparing the Index

39 Ramananda Chatterji Street                              Nalinaksha Dutt

 Calcutta, 20^th July 1960

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