"Buddhist Thought in India' had from the very start been planned as a sequel to my 'Buddhist Meditation' (Allen & Unwin, 1956, 1959), which is a collection of the most important traditional accounts of Buddhist meditational practices. Some familiarity with these practices will greatly assist the reader of this book, which derives the tenets of Buddhist philosophy from the meditational experiences of the Buddhist yogins.
It is now thirty years since this book was first begun. Its completion has been postponed and its execution partly spoiled by a new threat to quiet contemplation which even fifty years ago was happily almost unknown and which never troubled The developments of the Mahayana in China and Japan have been omitted, for no other reason than that I do not know the languages. This limitation is not as serious as it sounds. Most of the creative work was done in India, and even "Zen' is not half as original as it has been made out to be.
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Art (271)
Biography (244)
Buddha (1946)
Children (75)
Deities (50)
Healing (33)
Hinduism (58)
History (533)
Language & Literature (446)
Mahayana (420)
Mythology (73)
Philosophy (420)
Sacred Sites (108)
Tantric Buddhism (93)
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