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Buddhist Teaching in India
By: Johannes Bronkhorst

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The earliest records we have today of what the Buddha said were written down several centuries after his death, and the body of teachings attributed to him continued to evolve in India for centuries afterward across a shifting cultural and political landscape. As one tradition within a diverse religious milieu that included even the Greek kingdoms of northwestern India, Buddhism had many opportunities to both influence and be influenced by competing schools of thought. Even within Buddhism, a proliferation of interpretive traditions produced a dynamic intellectual climate. Johannes Bronkhorst here tracks the development of Buddhist teachings both within the larger Indian context and among Buddhism's many schools, shedding light on the sources and trajectory of such ideas as dharma theory, emptiness, the bodhisattva ideal, buddha nature, formal logic, and idealism. In these pages, we discover the roots of the doctrinal debates that have animated the Buddhist tradition up until the present day. .

Buddhist Teaching in India, Johannes Bronkhorst, Wisdom Publications, 143 pp., $28.95

Johannes Bronkhorst is Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.

Contents: Buddhist Teaching in India - Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism

Preface ix

1. The Teaching of the Buddha 1

Preliminary Remarks on Methodology 1

Main Teachings 9

Self and Liberating Knowledge 19

Asceticism and Meditation 44

Recapitulation 56

2. Arranging the Doctrine 61

The Origin of the Dharma Theory 61

Systematizing the Dharma Theory 81

Concluding Observations 109

3. Mahayana 115

Early Mahayana 115

Madhyamaka 135

Further Developments in Mahayana 152

The Logico-Epistemological School 168

4. Final Observations 175

Hermeneutics 176

Influences outside Buddhism 179

Landmarks 188

Abbreviations 193

Bibliography 201

Index 235

Contents: Buddhist Teaching in India - Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism

Preface ix

1. The Teaching of the Buddha 1

Preliminary Remarks on Methodology 1

Main Teachings 9

Self and Liberating Knowledge 19

Asceticism and Meditation 44

Recapitulation 56

2. Arranging the Doctrine 61

The Origin of the Dharma Theory 61

Systematizing the Dharma Theory 81

Concluding Observations 109

3. Mahayana 115

Early Mahayana 115

Madhyamaka 135

Further Developments in Mahayana 152

The Logico-Epistemological School 168

4. Final Observations 175

Hermeneutics 176

Influences outside Buddhism 179

Landmarks 188

Abbreviations 193

Bibliography 201

Index 235

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