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Passages Selected from the Buddhist Sacred Books
and Translated from the Original Pāli into English by

With the Dedication:
To My Friend and Teacher
Charles Rockwell Lanmann
This Volume Is Dedicated

Origianlly Published by Harvard University Press 1896

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	Abbreviations
	The Three Characteristics
	General Introduction	xi

	Chapter I.
	THE BUDDHA.
		Page
	Introductory Discourse	1
§ 1.	The Story of Sumedha	5
2.	A List of former Buddhas	32
3.	The Characteristics of a Future Buddha	33
4.	The Birth of The Buddha	38
5.	The Young Gotamid Prince	48
6.	The Great Retirement	56
7.	The Great Struggle	67
8.	The Attainment of Buddhaship	71
9.	First Events after the Attainment of Buddhaship	83
10.	The Conversion of Sāriputta and Moggallāna	87
11.	The Buddha's Daily Habits	91
12.	The Death of The Buddha	95

	Chapter II.
	SENTIENT EXISTENCE.
		Page
	Introductory Discourse	111
§ 13.	Questions Which Tend Not to Edification	117
14.	King Milinda and Nāgasena Come to an Understanding	128
15.	There is no Ego	129
16.	All Signs of an Ego are Absent	146
17.	No Continuous Personal Identity	148
18.	The Mind Less Permanent Than the Body	150
19.	What is Unity or One?	153
20.	Analyis of the Human Being	155
21.	The Composition of the Body	157
22.	On Getting Angry	159
23.	The Origin and Cessation of the Human Being	159
24.	Inanimate Nature	164
25.	The Middle Doctrine	165
26.	Ignorance	170
27.	Karma	179
28.	Consciousness	182
29.	Name and Form	184
30.	The Six Organs of Sense	186
31.	Contact	186
32.	Sensation	187
33.	Desire	187
34.	Attachment	189
35.	Existence	194
36.	Birth etc.	201
37.	Discussion of Dependent Origination	202

	Chapter III.
	KARMA AND REBIRTH.
		Page
	Introductory Discourse	209
§ 38.	Be A Friend to Yourself	213
39.	The Cause of Inequality in the World	214
40.	Fruitful and Barren Karma	215
41.	The Death of Moggallāna	221
42.	Good and Bad Karma	226
43.	How to Obtain Wealth, Beauty, and Social Position	228
44.	The Round of Existence	232
45.	Cause of Rebirth	232
46.	Is This To Be My Last Existence?	233
47.	Rebirth is not Transmigration	234
48.	Reflections on Existence	242
49.	Different Kinds of Death	252
50.	How Existence in Hell is Possible	253
51.	Death's Messengers	255
{51b.}	"The Three Warnings"	259
52.	The Ass in the Lion's Skin	262
53.	The Devoted Wife	264
54.	Friendship	267
55.	Virtue Is Its Own Reward	269
56.	The Hare-mark in the Moon	274

	Chapter IV.
	MEDITATION AND NIRVANA.
		Page
	Introductory Discourse	280
§ 57.	The Way of Purity	285
58.	Concentration	288
59.	The Thirty-one Grades of Being	289
60.	The Forty Subjects of Meditation	291
61.	The Earth-kasina	293
62.	Beauty is but Skin-deep	297
63.	The Conversion of Animals	301
64.	Love for Animals	302
65.	The Six High Powers	303
66.	Spiritual Law in the Natural World	306
67.	Going Further and Faring Worse	308
68.	Sāriputta and the Two Demons	313
69.	World-cycles	315
70.	Wisdom	330
71.	The Summum Bonum	331
72.	Māra as Plowman	349
73.	The Fire-Sermon	351
74.	The Four Intent Contemplations	353
75.	The Attainment of the Paths	376
76.	Nirvana To Be Attained at Death	380
77.	The Attainment of Nirvana by Godhika	380
78.	The Trance of Cessation	383
79.	The Attainment of Nirvana	389

	Chapter V.
	THE ORDER.
		Page
	Introductory Discourse	392
§ 80.	Conduct	393
81.	The Admission and Ordination Ceremonies	393
82.	The Serpent Who Wanted To Be A Priest	401
83.	The Buddhist Confession of Priests	402
84.	The Order Receive Leave To Dwell in Houses	411
85.	Residence During the Rainy Season	414
86.	The Mendicant Ideal	417
87.	The Value of Training in Religion	420
88.	The Colorless Life	421
89.	Can the Saint suffer?	422
90.	The Body is an Open Sore	423
91.	Heaven Not the Highest Good	424
92.	The Saints Superior to the Gods	424
93.	The Anger-eating Demon	426
94.	Contentment is Riches	428
95.	The Story of a Priest	430
96.	The Young Stone-Thrower	432
97.	"And Hate Not His Father and Mother"	434
98.	No Buddhist Should Commit Suicide	436
99.	The Admission of Women to the Order	441
100.	A Family of Magicians	448
101.	The Story of Visākhā	451
102.	The Buddhist Apocalypse	481

	Appendix
		Page
§ 103.	The Five Groups	487

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