The Buddha and His Teachings

by Bercholz, Samuel; Kohn, Sherab Chodzin

• ISBN13: 9781570629600
• ISBN10: 1570629609
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-03
• Publisher: Shambhala

Summary

Originally published asEntering the Stream,this book offers a simple and inspiring answer to the question "What is the Buddha's teaching?" primarily in the words of the Buddha and other masters. This anthology draws on traditional Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and Tibetan sources as well as teachings by contemporary Buddhist masters. Among the contributors, both classical and modern, are: Ajahn Chah, Pema Chouml;drouml;n, The Second Dalai Lama, Dogen, S.N. Goenka, Dainin Katagiri, Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi, Milerepa, Padmasambhava, Reginald Ray, Shunryu Suzuki, Nyanaponika Thera, Thich Nhat Hanh, Chouml;gyam Trungpa, and Burton Watson.

Author Biography

Samuel Bercholz is the founder and editor-in-chief of Shambhala Publications.

Sherab Chödzin Kohn is coeditor of the best-selling anthology The Buddha and His Teachings. He has been teaching Buddhism and meditation for more than thirty years, and he has edited a number of the books of his teacher, the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa. He has also published numerous translations, including an acclaimed version of Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	xiii
PART ONE THE LIFE OF THE BUDDHA AND THE SPREAD OF BUDDHISM
The Life of the Buddha	3	(42)
Sherab Chodzin Kohn
A Short History of Buddhism	45	(16)
Sherab Chodzin Kohn
PART TWO BASIC TEACHINGS
Introduction	57	(4)
The Buddha's Teaching	61	(5)
Bhikku Bodhi
Words of the Buddha	66	(7)
Ven. Balangoda Ananda Maitreya
The Development of Ego	73	(10)
Chogyam Trungpa
Seeing Things as They Are	83	(3)
Nyanaponika Thera
Our Real Home	86	(10)
Ajahn Chah
Moral Conduct, Concentration, and Wisdom	96	(26)
S. N. Goenka
Karma and Its Fruit	122	(8)
Nyanaponika Thera
The Practice of Recollection	130	(11)
Bhikkhu Mangalo
Unlimited Friendliness: The Metta Sutta	141	(6)
PART THREE THE TEACHINGS OF THE GREAT VEHICLE
Introduction	143	(4)
On Trust in the Mind	147	(6)
Seng-Ts-an
Burton Watson
The Heart Sutra Translated by The Nalanda Translation Committee	153	(4)
Exchanging Oneself for Others	157	(8)
Gyalwa Gendun Gyatso
Loving-Kindness	165	(3)
Pema Chodron
The Bodhisattva Path	168	(9)
Chogyam Trungpa
The Sutra Called Flawless Purity: A Dialogue with the Laywoman Gangottara Translated	177	(5)
Garma C. C. Chang
Looking at Living Beings Translated	182	(10)
Charles Luk
The Enlightenment of Hui-neng Translated	192	(13)
Wong Mou-Lam
To Forget the Self	205	(6)
Dogen Zenji
Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi
Ten Bulls: The Zen Oxherding Pictures	211	(12)
Kakuan
Nyogen Senzaki
Paul Reps
Unfettered Mind	223	(4)
Takuan Soho
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind	227	(13)
Shunryu Suzuki
Emptiness	240	(7)
Dainin Katagiri
Engaged Buddhism	247	(6)
Thich Nhat Hanh
PART FOUR THE TANTRIC TEACHINGS
Introduction	251	(2)
The Tantric Practitioner	253	(6)
Chogyam Trungpa
The Temptress and the Monk	259	(7)
Reginald A. Ray
The Union of Joy and Happiness	266	(7)
Tilopa
Songs of Milarepa Translated	273	(10)
Karma Tsultrim Palmo
Ati: The Innermost Essence	283	(6)
Jigme Lingpa
Chase Them Away!	289	(6)
Patrul Rinpoche
The Refined Essence of Oral Instructions	295	(6)
Padmasambhava
Yeshe Tsogyal
Rebirth in the Buddhist Tradition	301	(11)
Reginald A. Ray
Glossary	312	(17)
Bibliography: Suggested Further Readings	329	(3)
Credits	332