PART I: THE TEACHER

Chapter 1. The Buddha's Previous Lives

Introductory Note

1. Shakyamuni's Meeting with Dipankara

2a. The Bodhisattva and the Hungry Tigress

2b. The Bodhisattva as the Preacher of Patience

3. Outline of a Bodhisattva's Progress

Chapter 2. The Legend of the Buddha Shakyamuni

Introductory Note

1. The birth of the Bodhisattva-2. Asita's visit - 3. The

Bodhisattva's youth and marriage-4. The awakening -

5. Withdrawal from the women6. The flight-7. The

apparition of a mendicant - 8. The dismissal of Chandaka

9. The practice of austerities - 10. Nandabala's gift - 11. The

defeat of Mara - 12. The Enlightenment 13. The meeting with the mendicant 14. The meeting with the five mendi-

cants 15. Turning the wheel of Dharma 16. The meeting

of father and son - 17. Further conversions 18. Devadatta

19. The desire for death 20. The leave-taking from Vaisali, the final couch, instructions to the Mallas 21. Parinirvana

22. The Relics

23. The Scriptures

PART II: DOCTRINES

Chapter 1. Morality

Introductory Note

1. The Five Precepts, with Buddhaghosa's commentary

2. Rules of monastic restraint

3. The monk's life

32. The Buddha's advice to Sariputra (E.M.H.) - 3b. The Rhinoceros (Ε.Μ.Η.)

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