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Liber IV · Buddhism

Liber IV

Buddhism: The Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha

The teaching of the Buddha and its schools from India to Tibet, China and Japan.

Buddhism traces its origin to Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha or 'awakened one', who taught in northern India in about the fifth century BCE. This section covers his life and core teachings — the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, karma, rebirth and nirvana — the scriptures of the Pali Canon and the Mahayana sutras, and the great schools: Theravada in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, Mahayana in China, Korea and Japan, and Vajrayana in Tibet and the Himalaya. It also explores Buddhist cosmology, meditation, monastic life and the spread of Buddhism to the West.

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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVasubandhu AbhidharmakosabhasyamVasubandhu The Awakening of the WestStephen Batchelor The Awakening of the WestStephen Batchelor The Birth of InsightErik Braun The Birth of InsightErik Braun The BodhicaryavataraShantideva The BodhicaryavataraShantideva Bones, Stones, and Buddhist MonksGregory Schopen Bones, Stones, and Buddhist MonksGregory Schopen The British Discovery of BuddhismPhilip C. Almond The British Discovery of BuddhismPhilip C. Almond BuddhaKaren Armstrong BuddhaKaren Armstrong The BuddhaMichael Carrithers The BuddhaMichael Carrithers Buddhism and SocietyMelford E. Spiro Buddhism and SocietyMelford E. Spiro Buddhism in AmericaRichard Hughes Seager Buddhism in AmericaRichard Hughes Seager Buddhism in ChinaKenneth Ch'en Buddhism in ChinaKenneth Ch'en Buddhism TransformedRichard Gombrich Buddhism TransformedRichard Gombrich & Gananath Obeyesekere BuddhismDamien Keown BuddhismDamien Keown The Buddhist Conquest of ChinaErik Zürcher The Buddhist Conquest of ChinaErik Zürcher Buddhist CosmologyAkira Sadakata Buddhist CosmologyAkira Sadakata The Buddhist Monastic CodeThanissaro Bhikkhu The Buddhist Monastic CodeThanissaro Bhikkhu Buddhist Monastic Life According to the Texts of the Theravada TraditionMohan Wijayaratna Buddhist Monastic Life According to the Texts of the Theravada TraditionMohan Wijayaratna Buddhist Monks and Monasteries of IndiaSukumar Dutt Buddhist Monks and Monasteries of IndiaSukumar Dutt Buddhist ScripturesDonald S. Lopez Jr. Buddhist ScripturesDonald S. Lopez Jr. The Buddhist TantrasAlex Wayman The Buddhist TantrasAlex Wayman Buddhist ThoughtPaul Williams Buddhist ThoughtPaul Williams & Anthony Tribe Chinese Pure Land BuddhismCharles B. Jones Chinese Pure Land BuddhismCharles B. Jones The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and MotifsRobert Beer The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and MotifsRobert Beer Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East AsiaCharles D. Orzech Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East AsiaCharles D. Orzech, Henrik H. Sørensen & Richard K. Payne