{"product_id":"encyclopaedia-of-buddhism-volume-ix","title":"Encyclopaedia of Buddhism:   (Volume IX)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: M G Chitkara\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: APH Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2002\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 1000\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8176481882\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs part of a 21-volume series, this book underscroes that The Buddha is aware of both possible extremes, which he emphatically tells us to avoid so as to take the middle course. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Buddha in his inaugurating sermon said: these two extremes, O monks, are not to be practiced by one who has given up the world. What are the two? The one, devotion to lusts and pleasures, base, sensual, vulgar, ignoble, and useless, and other, devotion of self-mortification, painful, ignoble, and useless, and the other, devotion of self-mortification, painful, ignoble, and useless. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy avoiding these two extremes, O monks, the Tathagata has gained perfect knowledge, of the middle path, which produces insight and knowledge, and conduces to tranquility, to transcendent knowledge, to complete enlightenment, to Nirvana. What is this middle path, O monks? It is the Noble Eightfold Path.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHence everybody very well knows Buddha’s declaration of following the middle path between the two extremes, in spite of his however, he could not keep from inclining to follow the rigorous side of his moral culture. His middle way, by which he intends to show the mean between the two extremes, indulging exuberant pleasure and leading the severe ascentic life of self-mortification, is still tinged with the colour of asceticism, though of a mild nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe philosophy of the Buddha has a special place and significance in Indian thought in as much as it was based on the original and independent thinking of one person Sidhartha called the Buddha. He opposed the Vedic system of thinking g and led to new religious way of life in India. All the orthodox system considered the scripture (the Vedas) as the ultimate ground of truth. Preferred to explain human life and its problems on positivistic basis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Buddha experienced both the paths and found them unsatisfactory and hence he preferred the middle path, which is neither indulgence non renunciation, but it consists in controlling desires to that they are subdued. This path is midway between the two paths and is, therefore, known as Middle Path.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Madhyamaka as a systematic philosophy arose only in the second century CE with the figure of the great scholar and saint Acharya Nagarjuna. However, the essentials of the Madhymaka were anticipated by the earlier Buddhist tradition, as it developed out of the teachings of the Buddha Sakyamuni. The Madhyamaka represents a legitimate interpretation of the original teaching of the Buddha.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe law of interdependent origination (pratiyasamutpada) is universal acknowledged by all the Buddhist schools, including the Madhyamaka, to be the seesence of the teaching of the Buddha.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eA Revolutionary Concept of Socio Spiritual Engineering\u003cbr\u003eAdvent of Socialism\u003cbr\u003eAgenda 2000: Integration of Science and Spiritual Wisdom\u003cbr\u003eAusterity to Eternal life\u003cbr\u003eBeyond Time and Space\u003cbr\u003eBuddha in the Making\u003cbr\u003eBuddha the Enlightened\u003cbr\u003eBuddha, the Reformist \u003cbr\u003eDesire: The Seed of Mind\u003cbr\u003eDhamma \u0026amp; Dhammapada\u003cbr\u003eEdifice of Buddhism\u003cbr\u003eEvolution of Consciousness\u003cbr\u003eFour Purusharthas\u003cbr\u003eGlobally Accepted Ethics\u003cbr\u003eGod: The Uncaused Cause of Creation\u003cbr\u003eHarmonious World Community\u003cbr\u003eHimalayas,The Sangam Sthal\u003cbr\u003eInterdependence: law of nature\u003cbr\u003eKalachakra for World Peace\u003cbr\u003eLotus Sutra\u003cbr\u003eMadhyamaka has Soteriological orientation\u003cbr\u003eMind the Interrelatedness of thoughts\u003cbr\u003eMoral Values \u0026amp; Pure Senses\u003cbr\u003eRe-incarnation, Re-birth \u0026amp; Transmigration\u003cbr\u003eThe Self and Selflessness\u003cbr\u003eShunyata is Buddha\u003cbr\u003eThe Jataka Myth \u0026amp; Legend\u003cbr\u003eLife After Death\u003cbr\u003eThe Middle Path, Sustainable Development\u003cbr\u003eThe Suffering\u003cbr\u003eTruth in Madhyamaka\u003cbr\u003eVedic Tradition\u003cbr\u003eVipassana: Buddhas variegate contribution\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendices\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNagarjuna’s letter to king Gautamiputra\u003cbr\u003eMulamadhyamakakarika Sanskrit (Roman English) \u0026amp; English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"M G Chitkara \/ APH Publishing Corporation \/ Hardcover","offer_id":68153519702384,"sku":"7072","price":127.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/7072.jpg?v=1793910642","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/encyclopaedia-of-buddhism-volume-ix","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}