Chapter 10

Bhagavadgîta, quoted,126 ft.

Bhûtatathâtâ (Suchness),99et seq; and Mahâyâna,7; and perfect knowledge,92.

Bodhi (wisdom),46; and Prajñâ etc., defined,82 ft.; as perfect knowledge,92; its meaning explained,294; by Nâgârjuna,297; as a reflex of Dharmakâya,299; how awakened in human heart,302.

Bodhicitta (Intelligence-heart),52. (See also“Bodhi.”)

Bodhi-Dharma, of Dhyâna sect,103,149,155.

Bodhipakshikas, the seven,316et seq.

Bodhisattva, above samsara and nirvana,72; in the three yânas,277; the conception of, in primitive Buddhism,286; we are,290; and love,292; his ten pranidhanas,308; his reflections,369.

Bodhisattvahood, ten stages of,70,311et seq.

Bodhisattva-yâna,9.

Brahdaranyaka Upanishad, quoted,102 ft.

Buddha, and his self-relying spirit,57; culmination of good karma,215; in the Mahâyâna texts,243; the idealisation of, historically treated,249et seq.; in the Trikâya,252; the human, and the spiritual Dharmakâya,255; his32major and80minor marks of greatness,271; in the process of idealisation,289; in the Mahâyânism,291; and Mâra,334; on the ego-soul in the beginning of his religious career,337.

Buddhacarita, quoted,57.

Buddhadharma,355.

Buddha-Essence, Discourse on,357 ft.

Buddha-intelligence,364.

Buddhism(s), geographically divided,3,4; two,4et seq.; and atheism,31; and the soul problem,31et seq.; and agnosticism,35; and modern psychology,40; intellectual,56et seq.; liberal,56et seq.; and speculation,81et seq.; and science,97.

Buddhist(s) classified,8et seq.; life and love,52; ideal,53; aspiration,368; rule of conduct,368.

Çâkyamuni contrasted to Devadatta,200.

Carlyle’sHero-Worship, quoted,325 ft.

Causation, universal, and emptiness,176.

Christ and Buddha, compared,57,58.

Christian conception of the ego-soul,166.

Christianity, the growth of, compared with Mahâyânism,12et seq.; and its founder,13; not intellectual,79.

Çikshas (moral rules), ten,70 ft.

Confucius,63 ft.

Consciousness, subliminal,201.

Conservation of energy, and karma,34.

Convictions, the four, of the Buddha,327.

Çrâvaka,277.

Çrâvaka-yâna,9.

Çrimâla Sûtra, quoted,127.

Çûnyatâ, (or çûnya),22,95; and Christian critics,105; explained,173; and universal causation,176.

Daçabhûmi, (see“ten stages of Bodhisattvahood”),311,329.

Deussen, P., quoted,107.

Devala,361,364.

Dharma, its meaning,21,221.

Dharmadhatu,115 ft.,193.

Dharmakâya, Mahâyâna,7; briefly explained,20,45et seq.; the highest principle,35; and Brahman,46; and Paramâtman,46; and God of Christians,46; as love and wisdom,46,54,55; and non-ego,47; and the Golden Rule,48; and Bodhisattvas,61; its universal incarnation,63 ft.; in the Trikâya,73,257; as perfect knowledge,92; and prajñâ,94; as a cosmic mind,123; a unity,193; and Suchness,217; as God,219; as religious object,222; in theAvatamsaka Sutra,223; its detailed characterisation,224; in the phenomenal world,231; as love,232; as a loving heart in theAvatamsaka,233; its seven characteristics,234; by Asanga and Vasubandhu,234; its five modes of operation,235; its freedom,236; its pûrvanidhânabala,237; as rational will,238; as father,239; and its perpetual revelation,259; the evolution of its conception,272; all beings are one in,290; and the Bodhi,295.

Dharmapada, The, quoted,34,145,336,368.

Dharmamegha (tenth stage of Bodhisattvahood),326.

Dharmapala, the Anâgarika,3 ft.

Discourse on Buddha-Essence, The, by Vasubandhu,357.

Dûrangama (seventh stage of Bodhisattvahood),319.

Ego, not the source of energy,55; noumenal,145,163; phenomenal,145; empirical,163.

Egoism and the evolution of Manas,134.

Ego-soul, and its attributes,147; and the five skandhas,149; located by Ananda,157; and the Christian flesh,166; and the Vedantic conception,167et seq.; and Nâgârjuna,168; and svabhava,171; and Christians,212; as conceived by Buddha when he started on his religious career,337. (See also“Ego”, “âtman” and “soul”).

Ekacitta, (one mind or thought),70 ft.

Elders, the School of,248et seq.

Elephant and the blind,100.

Emerson, quoted,29.

Enlightenment,55,119; and manas,134; two obstacles to,344 ft.

Faith, its contents vary,27et seq.

Fatalism,196.

Gautama and Christ,29. (See also“Buddha”).

God, the Buddhist,219. (See also“Dharmakâya”).

Goethe’s Faust, quoted,181.

Golden Rule, the, universal,54.

Great Council School, the,248et seq.

Guyau, French sociologist,50 ft.,84.

Hartmann’s Unbewusste,137.

Hetus and Pratyayas,33,41,142,148.

Hînayânism,1,60,63,280.

Hugo, Victor, quoted,58.

Hui-K’e, second patriarch of Zen sect,148.

Iccantika (incapable of salvation),311.

Ignorance,35et seq.; and evolution,115; and consciousness,120; no evil,122; when evil?124; and Tathâgata-Garbha,126; and Manas,133; and Prakrit,138 ft.

Imitation of Christ,364 fn.

Immortality,38; and Dharmakâya,54; karmaic and not individual,214.

Injustice, social, and karma,186

Intelligence, awakened by love,362.

Jâtaka Tales, the, quoted,156.

Jesus,6.

Jîvâtman,145.

Kant,6;Critique of Pure Reason, quoted,324.

Karma, and the law of causation,33; briefly explained,33et seq.; and non-atman,42; and suchness,181; defined,181; the working of,183; irrefragable,184; and injustice,186; and the moral laws,189; an individualistic view,192; and the desire to communicate,195; and determinism,196; not like a machine,198; and immortality,203; and Walt Whitman (quoted),203; how transmitted,205; and Dharmakâya,207; and productions of art,208; and invention,210; and “seeds of activity,”212.

Karma-seeds,134.

Karunâ (love),46,82,238,296; and Prajñâ,360.

Kathopanishad, quoted,47.

Knowledge (sambodhi),3 ft.; three kinds of,67,87.

Kuçalamûla,199.

Lalita Vistara, quoted, on Nirvana,338 fn.

Lankavatara Sutra, quoted,41,130.

Laotze,63 ft.

LaotzeanWu wei,285.

Love, and ego,55; and Nirvana,362.

Madhyâmika, The, on Nirvana,347.

Madhyâmika school,21,62,66; and the Yogacarya, on truth,95.

Mahâpurusa, Discourse on the,361.

Mahâsangika,1 ft.

Mahâyâna,1et seq; its original meaning,7; and Bodhisattvas,61; and Hînayâna,70; and spiritual life,71; and Samkhya,136.

Mahâyâna-Abhisamaya Sutra, quoted,45.

Mahâyâna-Sangraha Çâstra,354.

Mahâyânism, (Mahâyâna Buddhism), defined,10et seq.; is it genuine?11et seq.; as a living faith,14et seq.; and its Christian critics,15; misunderstood,16et seq.; historically treated,60et seq.; and Sthiramati,61et seq.; its seven features,62et seq.; and metempsychosis,64; ten essential features,65et seq.; in its two phases,76et seq.; no nihilism,135 ft.; the development of,247; and individualism,282.

Maitreya,272.

Manas (self-consciousness),132.

Mañjuçri,106.

Manovijñâna (ego-consciousness),67,69.

Masashige, Kusunoki,213.

Maudsley, H., quoted,80.

Max Mueller, quoted,108 ft.,110 ft.,221.

Mâya, subjective ignorance,47.

Merits, the accumulation of,199.

Middle path, Doctrine of the,59,358; of Eight No’s,103.

Milinda-Panha, quoted,203.

Mitra, Rajendra, referred to,329 ft.

Monier Monier-Williams, refuted,18et seq.

Nâgârjuna,3 ft.,4,8,21,60,66,95,96,100,103,168,171,173,292,297,353.

Nâgasena and King Milinda,153.

“Na iti,”102.

Nânâtva, (difference),72 ft.

Nidânas, the twelve,36et seq.,179,182.

Nirmanakâya, (Body of Transformation),73,257,268.

Nirvana,19; and its non-Buddhist critics,49; briefly explained,49et seq.; and the surrender of ego,50; and Dharmakâya,51; and love,51,58; and pessimism,52; and ethics,53; and Parinishpanna (knowledge),94; what is,331et seq.; not nihilistic,332; Mahâyânistic,341; and Dharmakâya,342; the Mahâyânistic conception of,342et seq.; absolute,343; four forms of,343; upadhiçesa,344; Anupadhiçesa,344, that has no abode,345; and I Cor. 7, 30-31,346; as synonym of Dharmakâya,346by Chandra Kirti,347; its four attributes,348; its religious phase,349; and Emerson,352; and samsara are one,352; and St. Paul,352; and the Eight No’s of Nâgârjuna,358; the realisation of,360; as the Middle Path,362; comprehensively treated,367et seq.

Non-âtman,37et seq.; in things,41et seq,170; and impermanence of things,141, (see also“non-ego”, “self”, “soul”, “ego”).

Non-duality, the Dharma of,106.

Non-ego and Dharmakâya,47; and the Ganges water,156.

No’s, The Eight, of Nâgârjuna,358.

“Old man” and Atman,165.

Paramârtha-satya (absolute truth),91et seq.

Paramâtman,145.

Pâramitâ,3 ft.; six,68; ten,321.

Paratantra (relative knowledge),67; explained,89.

Parikalpita (illusion),67; explained,88.

Parinishpanna (perfect knowledge),67; explained,91.

Parivarta, (turning over),19,194; doctrine of,283.

Paul, Apostle, quoted,48,166,260,262.

Pingalaka, Nâgârjuna’s commentator, quoted,172.

Prabhâkarî (third stage of Bodhisattvahood),315.

Prajñâ (and Bodhi), defined,82 ft.;82,97,119,238,360.

Prakṛti (Samkyan primordial matter),66 ft.

Pramûditâ (first stage of Bodhisattvahood),313.

Pranidhâna, a Bodhisattva’s,307.

Pratisamvids, the four,325.

Pratyâyasamutpâda, (Nidânas),36et seq.

Pratyekabuddha,278.

Pratyekabuddha-yâna,9.

Precepts, the ten moral,70 ft.

Pudgala (ego),42,143 ft.

Punyaskandha,199.

Pure Lands,269.

Purusha (Samkyan soul),66 ft.

Pûrvanidhânabala,237.

Religion, its significance,22et seq.; not revealed,23; and mystery,24; its intellectual and emotional sides,25et seq.; and science,26; intellect and feeling in,77; and philosophy,78; subjective,81et seq.; not a philosophical system,85.

Rockhill’sLife of the Buddha, quoted, on Nirvana,338 fn.

Saddharma Pundarîka, quoted,260 ft.,274,277.

Sadhumatî, (ninth stage of Bodhisattvahood),325.

Samatâ (sameness),72 ft.

Sambodhi, (see“Bodhi”).

Sambhogakâya (Body of Bliss),65 ft.,73,257; in Açvaghosha,258; its six features,264; a mere subjective existence,266.

Samkhya philosophy, and Yogacarya school,67 ft.; referred to,146 ft.; on Nirvana,340.

Samvrtti-satya (conditional truth),95et seq.

Samyukta Nikaya, quoted,156,185.

Sanskaras, enumerated,151et seq.

Schopenhauer,181.

Skandhas, the five,32 ft.,149.

Soul-substance, denied,164.

Sthavira,1 ft.

Sthiramati, on Mahâyânism,61et seq.; on Bodhicitta,299.

Suchness, (see alsoBhûtatathâtâ),3; the first principle of Buddhism,99et seq.; indefinable,101; conditioned,109; in history,110; in the world,113; and the Bodhi,114; and ignorance,117; in its various modes,125; and Dharmakâya,127; and karma,181.

Sudurjayâ, (fifth stage of Bodhisattvahood),318.

Sukhâvatî sect, the,4,240.

Sumedha, the story of,280.

Sûrangama Sutra, quoted,157.

Suvarna Prabha Sutra,253 ft.

Svabhava, and non-ego,170et seq.; and emptiness,175.

“Tat tvam asi,”47,135 ft.

Tathâgata-Garbha,125,145.

Teleology,86.

Tennyson, quoted,82.

Tîrthakas,8.

Tolstoi, quoted, in connection with karma,207 ft.

Trikâya, (trinity),73,242,256,275.

Truth (satya), conditional and transcendental,95.

Udâna, quoted,52,338 ft.,341.

Universe, a mind,122.

Upâya (expediency),64,260 ft.; its meaning explained,298 ft.

Upâyajñâ,320.

Vaiçaradyas (convictions), the four,327 ft.

Vairocana,219.

Vasubandhu,87,153; hisAbhidharmakoça, referred to,37; on Mahâyâna,66;On the Completion of Karma, quoted,194;The Distinguishing of the Mean, quoted,195; onBodhicitta,303; on Nirvana,357,359,360.

Vasumitra, onVarious Schools of Buddhism,1 ft.

Vedanta philosophy, and the Mahâyânism,108 ft.; on Nirvana,340; on Atman,144.

Vicesacinta-brahma-Pariprccha Sutra,353.

Victory, the hymn of,336.

Vijñâna, and atman,39.

Vijnânamâtra, (nothing but ideas),70.

Vijnânamâtra çâstra,265 ft.,343.

Vimala (second stage of Bodhisattvahood),315.

Vimalakîrti,106,350,366.

Visuddhi Magga, quoted,339,348 ft.

Waddell, refuted,21et seq.

Whitman, Walt, quoted,155 ft.,197.

Wilson, Dr. G. R., quoted,201.

Yoga philosophy, The, on Nirvana,340.

Yogacarya school,62,65,87,92,95.

Yogavasistha, a vedantic book, quoted,167.

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