Giới thiệu Đạo Phật: Lời dạy, Lịch sử và Thực hành

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Mit thuong,

Anh vua duoc gioi thieu 1 cuon sach ve dao Phat/ Tac gia, Peter Harvey là giáo sư Phật học tại Đại học Sunderland, Anh quốc. Ông cũng là người sáng lập Hiệp hội Nghiên cứu Phật giáo, Anh quốc, và Hội Thiền định Samatha Trust.

Gioi thieu voi em noi dung so luoc..

Hien nay, anh dang doc cuon Luoc su PG cua E. Conze; xong se doc qua cuon nay..
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1) Peter Harvey. An Introduction to Buddhism: Teachings, History and Practices (2013)
(Giới thiệu Đạo Phật: Lời dạy, Lịch sử và Thực hành)

Contents

List of illustrations page xi
List of tables xiii
Preface to the Second Edition, and Acknowledgements xv
A Note on Language and Pronunciation xviii
List of abbreviations xxi

Introduction 1

1 The Buddha and his Indian Context 8

Background to the life of the Buddha 8
The life of the Buddha 14
The nature and role of the Buddha 27
The nature and style of the Buddha’s teaching 29

2 Early Buddhist Teachings: Rebirth and Karma 32

Rebirth and cosmology 32
Karma 39
Belief in rebirth and karma 46

3 Early Buddhist Teachings: The Four True Realities for the Spiritually Ennobled 50

The First True Reality for the Spiritually Ennobled: the painful 52
The Second True Reality for the Spiritually Ennobled: the origin of the
painful 62
The Third True Reality for the Spiritually Ennobled: the cessation of the
painful – Nirvāna 73
The Fourth True Reality for the Spiritually Ennobled: the Path to the
cessation of the painful 81

4 Early Developments in Buddhism 88

The early San˙gha 88
The Abhidhamma 90
The early schools and their doctrines 92
The three aspirations, Jātakas and Avadānas 99
Emperor Asoka and Buddhism 100
Devotion and symbolism in early Buddhism 103
The rise of the Mahāyāna 108

5 Mahāyāna Philosophies: The Varieties of Emptiness 114

The Perfection of Wisdom literature and the Mādhyamika school 114
The Yogācāra school 127
Tathāgata-garbha thought 138
The Avatam
˙
saka Sūtra and the Huayan School 145
A comparative overview of Mahāyāna philosophies and their ideas of
‘emptiness’ 149

6 Mahāyāna Holy Beings, and Tantric Buddhism 151

The path of the Bodhisattva 151
Mahāyāna Buddhology: expansion with regard to the number, location,
life-span and nature of Buddhas 161
The Mahāyāna pantheon 172
The tantric perspective 180

7 The Later History and Spread of Buddhism 194

India and Central Asia 194
Lan˙kā 196
South-east Asia excluding Vietnam 199
The lands of Northern Buddhism 202
China 210
Vietnam and Korea 224
Japan 226
Overview and comparative reflections 235

8 Buddhist Practice: Devotion 237

Focuses and locations of devotional acts 238
Bowing, offerings and chanting 240
The refuges 244
Attitudes to images 247
Protective chanting 249
Some Mahāyāna focuses of devotion 250
Pilgrimage 258
Festivals 259

9 Buddhist Practice: Ethics 264

The role and basis of ethics in Buddhism 264
Giving 267
Keeping the precepts 268
Lovingkindness and compassion 278
Care for the dying and the dead 281
The ethics of social relationships 282

10 Buddhist Practice: The San˙gha 287

The role of monasticism 288
The monastic code of discipline 289
Patterns and types of ordination 294
Nuns 298
The economic base of the monastic life 302
Study and meditation 305
Communal life 310
Relations with the laity 314

11 Buddhist Practice: Meditation and Cultivation of
Experience-Based Wisdom 318

The approach to meditation 319
Qualities to be developed by meditation 321
Approaches beginning with samatha in Southern Buddhism 325
The contributions of samatha and vipassanā meditation in Southern
Buddhism 332
Approaches beginning with vipassanā in Southern Buddhism 334
The classical path of śamatha and vipaśyanā in Northern and Eastern
Buddhism 340
Pure Land visualizations 344
Tantric visualizations 347
Tantric techniques of spontaneity 357
Zen meditation 361

12 The Modern History of Buddhism in Asia 376

Southern Buddhism 377
Eastern Buddhism 402
Northern Buddhism 413

13 Buddhism Beyond Asia 419

The early influence of Buddhism through literature, philosophy and
psychology 419
The Theosophical Society: a bridge between East and West 420
Scholarship 421
The internet, films and music 424
Immigration 424
Categories of Buddhists, and their characteristics and numbers 427
Buddhist missions and organizations 431

Appendix I: Canons of Scriptures 459
Appendix II: Web Resources 463
Bibliography 468
Index 491