An Illustrated Outline of Buddhism: The Essentials of Buddhist Spirituality (40 page)

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.
London: Lu-

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———.
Introduction to Zen Buddhism
.
New York: Causeway Books, 1974.

Tibet’s Great Yogī Milarepa: A Biography from the Tibetan
, edited by

W.Y. Evans-Wentz. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

137

INDEX

Abhidhamma Pitaka
(“Metaphysical

non, Chenrezig, 57, 68, 72,

Basket”), 16

73, 76, 78, 89, 90, 97, 98, 99,

Absolute, the 5, 39, 48, 50, 51, 68, 80

103, 120

Achala Vidyārāja (Fudō-Myō-ō), 68,
Avatamsaka
(
Hua-yen
or
Kegon
)

116

school, 55, 58, 121

Ādi-Buddha, Vajradhara,

Avatāra
(s) (Divine Incarnations), 31,

Mahāvairochana, Dainichi

36, 39, 46, 50, 94

Nyorai,
xi
, 2, 31, 32, 70, 72,

avidyā
.
See
ignorance, il usion

77, 116

Ayodhyā, 21

Ajantā, 27

Akshobya, 72, 77, 95

Bali, 83

Alexander the Great, 24

beauty (sacred art, Platonic doc-

Amaterasu (Sun-Goddess of Shinto-

trine), 23, 24, 27, 46, 93

ism), 129, 130, 131, 132

“Being” (the Personal God), 32, 48,

American Indian religion, 10, 54

50, 51, 127, 130

Amida, Amitābha, 2, 40, 43, 55, 58,

Benares, 14, 21

65, 66, 72, 73, 77, 78, 79, 80,

“Beyond-Being” (the Supra-Personal

81, 99, 106, 107, 119

God or Divine Essence), 48,

Amida Buddhism, Amidism, 55, 58,

50, 51, 127, 130

59, 65, 117

bhakti
(devotion), 55

Amitāyus, 2, 79, 81

Bharata-Nātya-Shāstra
, 24

Amogasiddhi, 35, 72, 77

bhikshu
,
bhikku
(monk), 16

Amoghavajra (Pu-k’ung), 101, 113

Bhutan, 53, 122

Ānanda, 16, 18, 20, 61, 64,

Bihar, 14, 20, 21, 76

Ānanda
(“Bliss”), 94, 97

bliss (
ānanda
,
sukha
,
mahāsukha
),

anātmā
,
anattā
(“non-self”), 20, 43,

97

44, 125

Bodh-Gayā, 8, 14, 15, 22, 83

anitya
(impermanence), 43

bodhi
(enlightenment, awakening,

Anurādhapura, 22, 83

knowledge), 14, 31, 32, 46,

arhat
,
arhant
,
arahat
, 40, 44

83, 134

Aryan mythologies, 9, 10

Bodhidharma (
Chinese
Tamo;
Japa-

Asanga, 21

nese
Daruma), 19, 22, 61, 62,

Ashoka, King, 20, 83

63, 101, 105

Ashvaghosha, 13, 21, 61

Bodhisattvas, 27, 29, 67, 68, 72, 73

Astrakhan, 53

Bodhi
-tree, 14, 83

Atīsha (Dipamkara Shrī Jñāna), 89,

Bön, 10, 54, 89, 90, 129

91, 92

Borneo, 83

Ātmā
(“Self”), 31n, 43, 44, 46, 51,

Brahma
(God, Supreme Divinity, in

54, 127

Hinduism), 30, 31, 44, 127

Avalokiteshvara, Kwan-Yin, Kwan-

Brahmā (Hindu God), 7, 14, 19

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An Illustrated Outline of Buddhism

Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, 13-

Coomaraswamy, Ananda K., 23, 135

14, 32, 36, 39

Council, First Buddhist, 16

Buddhaghosha, 22, 83, 84

craving (
trishnā
), 35

Buddhānusmriti
(“remembrance of

the Buddha”), 43, 79, 94, 98

Dagestan, 53

Buddhas, 23, 27, 39, 67, 72, 73, 77,

Dainichi Nyorai,
xi
, 116

99, 121, 129

Dalai Lama, 73, 91, 98, 99, 125

Buddheic grace, 97

dāna
(charity), 77

Buddhi
(Intellect, Spirit), 5, 48

dance, sacred, 24

Buddhist Scriptures, 16, 20, 27, 125,

Deer Park, 14

135

deism, deists, 7, 50

Burckhardt, Titus, 23, 68, 135

Dengyō Daishi (Saichō), 116, 117

Burma,
ix
, 20, 53, 58, 83, 84, 85

Devānampiya Tissa, 83

Dhammadassin, 39

Cambodia,
ix
,
xii
, 53, 58, 83, 84, 86

Dhammapada
(“Footprints of the

Catherine of Siena, St., 44

Law”), 16, 51, 61, 66, 67, 82,

Ceylon, 20, 22, 53, 58, 83, 84, 101.

91, 102, 125

See also
Sri Lanka

Dharma
,
Dhamma
, 16, 17, 31, 46,

Ch’an
Buddhism. See
Dhyāna
(
Ch’an
,

54, 80, 101, 102, 121

Zen
) Buddhism

Dharmachakra
(“Wheel of the

charity (
dāna
), 72

Law”), 14, 32, 33, 54

Chenrezig (Avalokiteshvara), 73,

Dharma-Character school (
Fa-

89, 99

hsiang
), 101-102, 121

China,
ix
, 2, 4, 11, 18, 19, 21, 22, 27,

Dharmākara’s Vow, 67, 79

53, 54, 55, 58, 61, 68, 89, 101,
Dharmakāya
,
xi
, 2, 32, 50, 116, 134

102, 103, 108, 109, 113, 116,

dhikr
(Islamic prayer), 43, 79

126, 129

dhyāna
(contemplation, discern-

Ching-t’u
school, 55, 58, 65, 80, 101,

ment), 77

121.
See also
Pure Land Bud-

Dhyāna
(
Ch’an
,
Zen
) Buddhism, 19,

dhism

20, 21, 22, 54, 58, 61, 89, 121

Chitta-matra
(“Consciousness Only”
Dhyāni-Buddha
s, 72, 77, 121

school), 121

Dīgha-Nikāya
, 4, 44, 88

Christ, Jesus, 7, 9, 36, 43, 44, 46, 79,

discrimination, discernment

100, 127

(
vijñāna
), 21

Christianity,
xi
, 5, 7, 9, 10, 23, 31, 36, Divine Essence, 48, 50, 51, 127, 130

43, 46, 55, 79, 94, 124, 127

Divyāvadāna
, 23

compassion (
karunā, mahākarunā
),

Dōgen, 117

11, 30, 67, 79, 106

dorje
(scepter), 93

Confucianism, Confucius, 9, 10, 11,

duhkha
(sorrow, suffering),
xii
, 13,

54, 101, 129

31, 32, 35, 40, 43, 46, 51

“Consciousness-Only” school (
Wei-

dulia (veneration),
latreia
(worship),

shih
), 102

23

Index

139

Eightfold Path, 7, 14, 32, 35, 40

haiku
, 115

Ellorā, 27

Hakuin, 129

emanationism, Hindu and Greek,

Harrer, Heinrich, 99

127

Hellenistic influence, 24

Enlightenment (
Bodhi
),
ix
, 14, 15,

Hīnayāna
,
Theravāda
,
xi
, 2, 9, 21, 53,

19, 31, 32, 46, 67, 134

58, 59, 84, 90, 93, 127

eschatology, 124

Hindu cosmology, 131

ethnic, ethnicities,
ix
,
xi
, 53

Hinduism, 2, 7, 9, 10, 23, 31, 36, 39,

Eve, 51

43, 44, 46, 53, 54, 55, 79, 83,

exile, spiritual, 31, 51, 93

84, 93, 97, 123, 127, 135

extinction (
Nirvāna
), 31

Hiruko (“Solar God”), 130

extinction (
fanā’
), 44

Hokke-Shū
(Lotus Sects), 117

Holy Spirit, 68

Fa-hsiang
.
See
Dharma-Character

Hōnen, 11, 57, 64, 65, 79, 103, 113,

school (
Fa-hsiang
)

117, 120, 122, 135

Fa-Hsien, 101, 104

Hsüan-Tsang, 23, 101, 105

Fernando, Ranjit,
vii
, 40, 135

Hua-yen
school, 55, 58, 59, 101, 121

Five Precepts, 36

Hui-k’o (Eka), 62, 63

flower sermon, 19

Hui-neng (Enō), 63

Four Noble Truths, 14, 24, 32, 35, 40

Hung-jen (Gunin), 63

Fudō-Myō-ō, Achala Vidyārāja, 68,

Hyperborean shamanism(s), 9, 10,

116

54, 129

Fu-Hsi (the first Chinese Emperor),

101, 104, 107

iconoclastic, iconodulic, 9, 23, 46

iconography, 9, 23

Gandhāra, 21, 24, 25

idolatry, 23

Gandhi Mahatma, 8

Iengar, Shrī Keshavram,
vii
, 22

Gautama, Gotama Buddha, 13, 14,

il umination, sudden (
satori
), 116

32, 36, 39, 54.
See also
Bud-

il usion, ignorance (
moha
,
avidyā
),

dha, Siddhārtha Gautama

2, 40, 43, 51

Gelug
school (Tibet), 91, 92, 121

Immanence and Transcendence, 1,

Genshin, 65

2, 31n, 127

Germano-Celtic religion, 10

impermanence, impermanent (
ani-