ABSTRACT

This is Volume XII of sixteen of the Oriental series looking at Buddhism. It was written in 1926, and looks at the Life of Gotama the Buddha, a religious teacher and reformer. This work is complied from the Pali Canon of the three Pitakas.

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Part I. The Earliest Years

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The Prophecy of Asita

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The Threefold Pride

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Part II. Discipline and Enlightenment

chapter |14 pages

The Sublime Story

chapter |4 pages

The Noble Quest1

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The Conquest of Fear

chapter |10 pages

Enlightenment Attained

chapter |4 pages

An Ancient Path

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The Chronicle of Gotama

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Part III. First Events After The Enlightenment

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Under the Rajayatana-tree

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Under the Ajapala Banyan-tree

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The Story of Yasa

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The First Women Lay-Disciples

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Ordination by the Threefold Refuge

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The Fire Sermon

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Part IV. The Buddha's Relations with his disciples and Others

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Ordination of Rahula

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The Well-Tuned Lute

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Residence During the Rainy Season-Vassa

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The Helper of the Individual

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Tissa

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Admission of Women to an Order of Nuns

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Nakulapitar

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Meghiya

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Sona-Kotikanna

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Exhortation

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Sand-Castles

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The Blessed One Seeks Solitude

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Reprimanding Cruelty

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Holding in reverence

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The Teacher as Way-Shower

chapter |21 pages

Dissension in the Order

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Advice to a Brahman.

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Ananda

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Sunita

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Chulla-Panthaka

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Part V. Last Events in the Life of the Buddha

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What May be Said of all Buddhas

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A Frequently Repeated Text

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A Sermon to Householders

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The Courtezan Ambapali Appears

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The Buddha Decides when to Pass Away

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The Four Great Authorities

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The Buddha Accepts Food from Chunda

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The Clarifying of a Stream

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Stories Concerning Concentration

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The Exalted One Speaks of Chunda

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Under the Twin Sala-trees

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Places to be Reverenced

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The Monk's Conduct Towards Women

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Regarding Ananda

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The Mallas come to Pay their Respects

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Subhadda

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The Last Words of the Buddha

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The Buddha Attains Parinibbana