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This book presents a brilliant account of of Theravada Buddhism and embraces a wide variety of themes ranging from the birth of Buddhism to the Buddha’s prophetic teachings regarding the future of mankind.
Topics covered include, among many others, the background of early Buddhism; the significance of the Buddha’s birthday; the Buddhist doctrines of karma and reincarnation; the Buddhist conception of truth, good and evil, Nirvana, the individual, the universe and the material world; the Buddhist view of nature and destiny; Buddhism and the caste system; Buddhism and international law; and the contemporary relevance of the Buddha’s teachings to the modern world.
Professor Jayatilleke always writes with both the scholar and the lay reader in mind. As a result, this is a highly readable and extremely penetrating book—and one that explores the roots and nature of the Buddha’s teachings and examines them in the light of contemporary knowledge.
The present collection contains all essays earlier published in the book The Message of the Buddha, edited by Ninian Smart, as well as essays that were published the Wheel Publication series.
Contents
2. The Historical Context of the Rise of Buddhism
3. The Buddhist Conception of Truth
4. The Buddhist Attitude to Revelation
5. The Buddhist Conception of Matter and the Material World
6. The Buddhist Analysis of Mind
7. The Buddhist Conception of the Universe
8. The Buddhist Attitude to God
9. Nibbana
10. The Buddhist View of Survival
11. The Buddhist Doctrine of Kamma
12. The Case for the Buddhist Theory of Karma and Survival
13. The Conditioned Genesis of the Individual
14. The Buddhist Ethical Ideal of the Ultimate Good
15. The Basis of Buddhist Ethics
16. The Buddhist Conception of Evil
17. The Criteria of Right and Wrong
18. The Ethical Theory of Buddhism
19. Some Aspects of the Bhagavad Gita and Buddhist Ethics
20. Toynbee’s Criticism of Buddhism
21. The Buddhist Attitude to Other Religions
22. Buddhism and Peace
23. The Significance of Vesakha
24. Buddhism and the Race Question
25. The Principles of International Law in Buddhist Doctrine
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