The Essentials of Buddhist Philosophy

By the eleventh century a.d. Hinayana flourished in Ceylon, Burma, Siam and Cambodia; Mystic Buddhism developed in Tibet; Mahayana grew in China. In Japan the whole of Buddhism became the living and active faith of the mass of the people. The present study relates to Japanese Buddhism, as in Japan alone the whole of Buddhism has been preserved. The author presents Buddhist Philosophy in an ideological sequence, but it is not the sequence in the development of ideas; it is rather the systematization of the different schools of thought for the purpose of easier approach. Divided into fifteen chapters, the book deals with different schools of Buddhist Philosophy. The author has grouped these schools under two heads: (1) the schools of Negative Rationalism, i.e. the Religion of Dialectic Investigation, and (2) the schools of Introspective Intuitionism, i.e. the Religion of Meditative Experience. The author treats these schools in most scientific and elaborate way. Preface to Fist Indian Edtion......Page 6 Editor Preface......Page 8 Editors' Preface to Secon Edtion......Page 10 XV. Conclusion......Page 12 (1) How to Depict Buddhism......Page 14 (2) Buddhism in the History of China......Page 18 (3) Japan als the Land of Mahayana......Page 22 (4) Japanese Buddhism Philosophically Classified......Page 23 (1) Buddhist India......Page 26 (2) The Buddha as a Deep Thinker......Page 28 (3) What is Self?......Page 29 (4) The Ideal of Buddhism......Page 31 (5) What is Truth? What is the Way?......Page 32 (1) The Pricinciple of Causation......Page 36 (a) Causation by Action-Influence......Page 37 (b) Causation by the Ideation-Store (Alaya-vijnana)......Page 44 (c) Causation by Thuseness (Tathata)......Page 46 (d) Causation by the Universal Principle (Dharma-dhatu)......Page 47 (2) The Principle of Indenterminism and Indetermination......Page 49 (3) The Principle of Reciprocal Identification......Page 52 (4) The Principle of True Reality (Thusness)......Page 54 (5) The Principle of Totality (Dharma-dhatu)......Page 56 (6) The Principle of Nirvana or Perfect Freedom......Page 57 (a) The Unwirten Sacred Literature......Page 58 (b) The unrepresented Sacred Image......Page 59 (1) Preliminary......Page 68 (2) Historical......Page 73 (3) Philosophical......Page 75 (4) Resume......Page 84 (1) Preliminary......Page 87 (2) Historical......Page 88 (3) Philosphical......Page 89 (1) Preliminary......Page 94 (2) Historical......Page 95 (3) Philosohical......Page 100 (1) Preliminary......Page 112 (2) Historical......Page 114 (3) Philosophical......Page 116 (4) Resume......Page 123 (1) Preliminary......Page 125 (2) Historical......Page 127 (3) Philososphical......Page 130 (1) Preliminary......Page 144 (2) Historical......Page 147 (3) Philosophical......Page 149 (1) Preliminary......Page 161 (2) Historical......Page 163 (3) Philosophical......Page 167 (1) Buddhist School of the Kamakura Period (1185-1335 A.D.)......Page 173 (2) Preliminary......Page 174 (3) Historical......Page 177 (4) Philosohical and Religious......Page 183 (1) Preliminary......Page 187 (2) Historical......Page 188 (3) Philosohical and Religous......Page 193 (1) Preliminary......Page 199 (2) Historical......Page 201 (3) Philosphical and Religious......Page 204 (1) Preliminary......Page 208 (2) Historical......Page 210 (3) Philosohical and Religous......Page 212 Index......Page 226