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Preface | p. 11 |
Technical Note | p. 17 |
Introduction | p. 21 |
The Indian Background | |
Buddhism in India | p. 31 |
The Buddha | p. 31 |
The Buddha's Life and Lives | p. 34 |
Epilogue | p. 56 |
Some Important Buddhist Doctrines | p. 63 |
Cyclic Existence | p. 63 |
Appearance and Reality | p. 71 |
Meditation | p. 81 |
The Role of Meditation in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism | p. 81 |
Stabilizing and Analytical Meditation | p. 85 |
The Five Buddhist Paths | p. 91 |
Mahayana | p. 101 |
Origins | p. 101 |
Mahayana Doctrines | p. 105 |
The Bodhisattva Path | p. 113 |
Tibetan History and Culture | |
Tibetan Religious History | p. 137 |
Tibet: Geography and Environment | p. 137 |
The Early History of Tibet | p. 139 |
The Period of the Religious Kings | p. 144 |
The Second Dissemination of Buddhism | p. 155 |
Mongol Influence and Sakya Supremacy | p. 159 |
The Gelukpa Ascent to Power | p. 163 |
The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | p. 169 |
The Twentieth Century | p. 181 |
Foreign Conflicts | p. 181 |
The Fourteenth Dalai Lama | p. 187 |
The Interregnum Period | p. 195 |
The Fourteenth Dalai Lama Assumes Power | p. 197 |
The Chinese Occupation of Tibet | p. 205 |
Religious Festivals and Holy Days | p. 219 |
Monlam | p. 219 |
The Butter-Sculpture Festival of Kumbum | p. 222 |
Sacred Dance | p. 226 |
Other Religious Festivals | p. 228 |
Common Elements in Tibetan Religious Ceremonies | p. 229 |
Geography and Architecture | p. 233 |
The Religious Environment | p. 233 |
Construction of Religious Structures | p. 236 |
Stupas | p. 242 |
Tibetan Buddhist Doctrines and Practices | |
Tantra | p. 249 |
The Place of the Tantras in Buddhist Literature | p. 249 |
Tantra as a Branch of Mahayana | p. 257 |
Tantric Symbols | p. 262 |
Entering Tantric Practice | p. 267 |
The Four Classes of Tantra | p. 279 |
The Preliminary Practices | p. 294 |
The Fourteen Root Downfalls | p. 315 |
Death and Dying in Tibetan Buddhism | p. 325 |
Introduction | p. 325 |
Death Meditation: Exoteric and Esoteric Traditions | p. 330 |
The Bardo Process | p. 341 |
Tibetan Rituals of Death and Dying | p. 348 |
The Orders of Tibetan Buddhism | |
The Four Orders | p. 355 |
The Nonsectarian Movement | p. 359 |
Nyingma | p. 367 |
History and Doctrines | p. 367 |
The Nine Vehicles | p. 375 |
Terma: Hidden Treasures | p. 378 |
Distinctive Practices: Dzogchen | p. 383 |
Kagyu | p. 399 |
History and Doctrines | p. 399 |
Meditation Practices | p. 405 |
Sakya | p. 433 |
Origins of the Sakya Tradition | p. 433 |
The Development and Dissemination of Sakya Doctrines and Practices | p. 437 |
Sakya Becomes a Political Force | p. 442 |
The Sakya Monastic Order | p. 445 |
Distinctive Practices: "Path and Result" | p. 447 |
Geluk | p. 467 |
History of the Lineage | p. 467 |
The Gelukpa Monastic System | p. 477 |
Distinctive Practices: The Stages of the Path | p. 481 |
Bon: A Heterodox System | p. 497 |
Introduction | p. 497 |
Bon Teachings and Practices | p. 500 |
Chronology of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism | p. 515 |
Lexicon of Buddhist Terms | p. 521 |
English-Tibetan-Sanskrit Glossary | p. 529 |
Select Bibliography | p. 561 |
Indexes | |
Technical Terms | p. 577 |
Proper Names | p. 584 |
Titles of Works Mentioned | p. 589 |
Locations | p. 590 |
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