Buddhist Path, Buddhist Teachings

Naomi Appleton is Senior Lecturer in Asian Religions at the University of Edinburgh. Peter Harvey is Emeritus Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Sunderland.

Preface

1. Lance Cousins: An Obituary, Appreciation and Bibliography
Peter Harvey

Meditation and the Buddhist Path
2. The Four Jhānas and their Qualities in the Pali Tradition
Peter Harvey

3. Paths of Monastic Practice from India to Sri Lanka: Responses to L.S. Cousins’ Work on Scholars and Meditators
Bradley S. Clough, University of Montana

4. ‘I’m Not Getting Anywhere with my Meditation …’: Effort, Contentment and Goal-Directedness in the Process of Mind-Training
Ajahn Amaro, Amaravati monastery, Hertfordshire

Comparative Mysticism
5. John of the Cross, the Dark Night of the Soul, and the Jhānas and the Arūpa States: A Critical Comparative Study
Elizabeth J. Harris, University of Birmingham

6. Emptiness and Unknowing: An Essay in Comparative Mysticism
Rupert Gethin, University of Bristol

Interpreting Buddhist Teachings
7. Ambiguity and Ambivalence in Buddhist Treatment of the Dead
Richard Gombrich, University of Oxford

8. The Alagaddūpama Sutta as a Scriptural Source for Understanding the Distinctive Philosophical Standpoint of Early Buddhism
P. D. Premasiri, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

9. An Ekottarika-āgama Discourse Without Parallels: From Perception of Impermanence to the Pure Land
Anālayo Bhikkhu, University of Hamburg

Abhidhamma
10. Equal-headed (samasīsin): An Abhidharma Innovation and Commentarial Developments
Tse-Fu Kuan, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan

11. Calligraphic Magic: Abhidhamma Inscriptions from Sukhodaya
Peter Skilling, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok

12. The Relation of the Saccasaṅkhepaṭīkā Called Sāratthasālinī to the Vinayavinicchayaṭīkā Called Vinayasāratthasandīpanī
Petra Kieffer-Pülz, Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur Mainz

Schools and Scriptures
13. The Formation of Canons in the Early Indian nikāyas or Schools in the Light of the New Gāndhārī Manuscript Finds
Mark Allon, University of Sydney

14. Theriya Networks and the Circulation of the Pali Canon in South Asia: The Vibhajjavādins Reconsidered
Alexander Wynne, University of Oxford

Literature
15. Yaśodharā in Jātakas
Sarah Shaw, University of Oxford

16. Jātaka Stories and Paccekabuddhas in Early Buddhism
Naomi Appleton