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Buddhism in a Nutshell

Contents


  1. The Buddha
  2. The Dhamma: Is it a Philosophy?
  3. Is it a Religion?
  4. Is Buddhism an Ethical System?
  5. Some Salient Features of Buddhism
  6. Kamma or the Law of Moral Causation
  7. Re-Birth
  8. Paticca Samuppada (Dependent Origination)
  9. Anatta or Soul-lessness
  10. Nibanna (or Nirvana)
  11. The Path to Nibbana
  12. Appendix
    1. Concentration on Respiration (Anapana Sati)
    2. Meditation on Loving-Kindness (Metta)
    3. Perfections (Parami)
  13. Endnotes

13. Endnotes

  1. An Awakened or Enlightened One.
  2. Lit., Thus who hath come.
  3. Lit., the Worthy Ones. They are the enlightened disciples who have destroyed all passions.
  4. The Teaching.
  5. The Discipline.
  6. Bhikkhu Silacara
  7. Craving associated with “Eternalism” (sassataditthi) (Commentary)
  8. Craving associated with “Nihilism” (ucchedaditthi) (Comy)
  9. Culakamma Vibhanga Sutta -- Majjhima Nikaya, No. 135.
  10. See “Many Mansions and The World Within” by Gina Cerminara.
  11. C.E.M. Joad, The Meaning of Life
  12. See Compendium of Philosophy, Tr. by Shwe Zan Aung (Pali Text Society, London) -- Introduction p. 12.
  13. Compare the cinematograph film where the individual photographs give rise to a notion of movement.
  14. Evidently the writer is referring to the state of an arahat after death.
  15. This introductory part may be omitted by non-Buddhists.
  16. Here the term “I” is used in a conventional sense.

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