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© in This Web Service Cambridge University Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-85942-4 - An Introduction to Buddhism: Teachings, History and Practices: Second Edition Peter Harvey Index More information Index Chinese terms are given in Pinyin form, with the older Wade-Giles form in brackets. Where a term in the latter starts with a different letter, it also has its own entry directing the reader to the Pinyin entry. Tibetan terms are given in pronounceable form, with fuller Wylie forms in brackets. Primary entries in bold. Italicised items are non-English words, or names of texts. Abhidhamma (Pali, Skt Abhidharma), 3, 90–2, ālaya-vijñāna (storehouse-consciousness), 131–3, 103, 459 137 and chanting, 202 ‘ālaya which is beyond’, 132 350 ā 137 and man˙˙dalas, and Nirv ˙na, in China, 210, 214 and Tathāgata-garbha, 141 in Japan, 95 as the Tathāgata-garbha, 143 later Pali works of, 4, 92, 197 alms, 11, 267, 283, 288, 292, 295, 301, 303, 308, 310, Mahāyāna critique of, 108, 116, 122 312 momentariness in, 84, 90, 91, 92, 131 Ambedkar Buddhists, 398–400, 426, 442, 446 on ‘becoming’, 71 Amida Buddha. See Amitābha Sarvāstivāda, 84, 93–5, 96, 97, 108, 116, 119, 129, Amitābha ( Jap. Amida) Buddha, 173–4, 176, 210, 140, 341 216, 227. See also Amitāyus study of in West, 422, 443 absolute faith in, 345 two levels of truth/reality in, 90, 119 and Avalokiteśvara, 176, 177, 251 Vibhajyavāda/Theravāda, 90–2, 95, 97, 119, 198 and Chan/Zen, 222, 235 Yogācāra, 128, 129, 130 and ethics, 234, 264 Abhidhammattha-san˙gaha, 92, 197 and Panchen Lama, 171, 189, 208 Abhidharma-kośa, xxi, 94, 95, 128, 214, 422 and Pure Land schools, 216–17, 229–30 Abhidharma-kośa-bhā.sya, xxi, 94, 96, 128 and the Dharma-body, 234, 345 Abhidharma-samuccaya, 128 and the dying, 282 abortion, 272 as Buddha-refuge, 246 Ādi (Primordial) Buddha, 170, 185, 205, 402 devotion to, 227, 228, 229, 236, 255–6, 297, 313, access concentration. See under concentration, 316, 343, 344, 356, 366 meditative hymns to, 255, 426 Afghanistan, 106, 194, 236 images of, 256, 257 Africa, 405, 427, 429, 443, 457 meditation on, 185, 345–7 Āgamas, 3, 50, 215, 406, 461 Nichiren on, 233 Aggañña Sutta, 37 Amitāyur-buddhānusmr.ti Sūtra, 173, 174, 345 aggregates. See khandhas Amitāyus Buddha, 162, 173, 345–6. See also Agon Shū school, 406 Amitābha 96 185 aim-free (Pali appan˙ ihita, Skt apran˙ ihita), the, , Amoghasiddhi Buddha, 139, 340, 363 Ānanda, 24, 26, 88, 298, 370 Aitken, R., 366, 434, 435 Ānanda Bodhi, 442, 444 Ājīvikas, 13, 102 Ānanda Metteyya, 441 Aks.obhya Buddha, 174–5, 185, 193, 210, 349, Ānāpāna-sati Sutta, 328 352 anattā (Pali, Skt anātman). See non-Self 491 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-85942-4 - An Introduction to Buddhism: Teachings, History and Practices: Second Edition Peter Harvey Index More information 492 Index 58 ā ā ‘ ’ ū Anatta-lakkhan˙ a Sutta, As..tas hasrik Perfection of Wisdom S tra, xxi, animal(s). See also vegetarianism 114, 167, 168 as Transformation-bodies, 166 astrology, 41, 193, 206, 308, 316 Bodhisattva as an, 15 Atiśa, 155, 206, 207, 208, 417 killing of, 9, 39, 101, 195, 212, 271, 273 Ati-yoga, 183, 204, 205, 356, 357. See also Dzogch’en rebirth as, 33, 38, 39, 42, 421 Ātman. See Self responding to kindness, 25, 249, 254 attachment or greed (Pali and Skt rāga,orlobha), treatment of, 101, 177, 271, 275, 281 2, 20, 33, 54, 61, 62, 68, 73, 80, 112, 120, ‘annihilationism’, 13, 69, 72 129, 144, 191, 192, 279, 282, 288, 291, 324, antarā-bhava (Pali and Skt, Tib. bardo) – 333, 336, 339, 359, 371 intermediary existence, 71, 282 in the Mahāyāna, 191 yoga of, 354, 356 to heavens, 87 Anurādhapura, 196, 238, 258, 260 to moral rules, 71, 85, 264, 393 Anuttara-yoga, 183, 205, 353, 356, 357 to views, 63, 64 Anu-yoga, 183, 204, 356 with hatred and delusion, 31, 57, 71, 73, 77, 81, Arahatness, 77 126, 127, 158, 265, 288, 289, 291, 333, 334 Arahats (Pali, Skt Arhat), 74, 76–8, 84 Aum Shinrikyo, 406, 407 after death, 78–80 Avadānas, 77, 98, 100, 103, 108, 238 and cessation of perception and feeling, 332 Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva, 171, 176–8, 259. See ā 73 74 76 80 and Nirv ˙na, , , , also Guanyin and other Noble persons, 85 and Amitābha, 176, 256, 345 and seventh stage Bodhisattva, 158, 160 and Dalai Lamas, 171, 172, 208 and Ten-factored Path, 85 and Tārā, 187 as ‘Dhamma-become’, 29, 390 appearing to Shinran, 230 as sāvaka-buddhas, 99 as a world-creator, 177 as ‘true Brahmins’, 30 devotion to, 228, 250–4 can be gods, 86 iconography of, 177, 251 chants on, 201, 250, 389 in Chan/Zen, 253 compared to the Buddha, 15, 29 in Lan˙kā, 198 compassion of, 24, 77 in tantric Buddhism, 185, 353 female, 285 in Thailand, 200, 254 fetters destroyed by, 87 mantra of, 181, 254 images of, 238 pilgrimage sites of, 176, 259 laypeople as, 288 power of, 253 Mahāyāna on, 109, 111, 153, 157, 159, 163, 177 skilful means of, 251 power of, 47 vow of, 251 recent, 308 Avalokiteśvara Sūtra, 250 97 ū 145–9 169 171 185 201 215 regression of, Avatam˙ saka S tra, , , , , , relics of, 27, 103 ‘Awakening of Faith in the Mahāyāna’, Treatise routes to becoming one, 331 on the, 139, 145, 214, 218, 228, 343 Zen on, 232 Arahatship, 81, 305 Baizhang (Pai-chang), 304 a sudden breakthrough, 370 Bali, 201, 402 craving for, 191 Bangladesh, 236, 377, 395, 401, 433 Arnold, Sir Edwin, 420, 441 bardo. See antarā-bhava arts, 223, 226, 227, 256, 306, 314, 388, 392, 463, Bashō, Matsuo, 235, 373–5, 466 465, 466 becoming (bhava), 71 and Zen, 217, 234, 235, 372–5 ‘becoming’ an object or holy being, 349, 353, Aryans, 9, 30 372 Asan˙ga, 127, 128, 129, 131, 134, 139, 152, 165, 271 beings works of, xxiv, xxv, 128 all been good to one in a past life, 38 asceticism, 19, 82, 98, 309–10, 406 all been one’s mothers, 154 non-Buddhist, 9, 13 all have Buddhaness, 126, 127, 155 Asoka (Pali, Skt Aśoka), emperor, 8, 95, 100–2, as conventional entities, 59 104, 199, 272, 273, 282, 283 as fluxes of empty dharmas, 151 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-85942-4 - An Introduction to Buddhism: Teachings, History and Practices: Second Edition Peter Harvey Index More information Index 493 kinds of, 33–6 types of, 160 ‘sameness’ of, 151 vows of, 154, 170, 173, 280 Bhais.ajya-guru Buddha, 175, 227, 257, 259 wrathful forms of, 186 Bhāvanā-kramas, the three, 341 Bodhisattva-yāna, 110 bhavan˙ga (Pali) consciousness, 92, 129, 131 Bodhi-tree(s), 105, 239, 260 bhikkhu (Pali, Skt bhiks.u). See monks and Bōdhi Pūjā, 380 ī ī ā 196 258 bhikkhun (Skt bhiks.un˙ ). See nuns with higher at Anur dhapura, , ordination at Bodh-Gayā, 258 Bhutan, 208, 236, 261, 275, 300, 377, 400, 415, 417 beneficial power of, 248, 258 Blavatsky, H.P., 378, 421 symbolism of, 201, 239, 240 ‘Blue Cliff Records’, 368 body. See also ‘Three-body’ doctrine Bodh-Gayā, 22, 258, 379, 400, 401, 416, 420 and relics, 103 bodhi (enlightenment, awakening, buddhahood), as material form, 56 15. See also enlightenment/awakening as not owned, 65 Bodhicaryāvatāra, xxi, 115, 152, 154, 267 as thought-only, 133 bodhi-citta, 110, 143, 153, 154, 155, 157, 174, 205, illusory body, 354, 355 345, 355 importance of posture of, 232, 320, 361, 363 and Tathāgata-garbha, 143 in Dhammakāya movement, 389 meditations to arouse, 154 in esoteric Southern Buddhism, 201, 389 Bodhidharma, 217, 218 in Mahāmudrā, 358 Bodhisattva path, 108, 110, 111, 112, 116, 344 mindfulness of, 21, 83, 192, 321, 323–4, 326, 328, acceleration of, 171, 282, 355 335, 337, 338 and compassion, 112 mind-made, 98, 137, 165 112 155 160 171 180 ā ‘ ’ 389 huge length of, , , , , Nirv ˙na as within , in Śrāvakayāna schools, 99, 112, 113 plus speech and mind in ritual, 228, 241, 345, 352 stages of, 99, 146, 153–61 sentient body, 66, 67, 70 Bodhisattva-bhūmi, 152, 155, 271 shaking from joy, 385 Bodhisattvas (Skt, Pali Bodhisatta), 15, 151. See also ‘stopping’ of, 76 perfections tantric view of, 190, 191, 354, 355 Ambedkar as a, 399 thirty-two characteristics of a Buddha’s, 105, Anagārika Dharmapāla as a, 379 106, 166 101 153 ā 332 and Cakkavattins, , touching Nirv ˙na with, and Tathāgata-garbha, 140 Bön, 5, 203, 205, 206, 209, 262, 357, 418 as heavenly saviour beings, 110, 172 bowing, 240–1, 299, 320, 343, 345 ā 126 137 158 ā ā 11 22 30 34 can stay in sam˙ s ra, , , Brahm , Great, and other brahm s, , , , , compared to Arhats, 109, 111, 153, 155, 158, 35, 36–7, 173, 279, 346 160, 189 Brahmā Sahampati, 22 female, 186, 286 Brahmajāla Sūtra and code of precepts, 269, 274, from distant worlds, 146 294, 297, 304 identify with others, 152 Brahman, 9, 10, 37, 50, 58, 59, 72, 120, 127, 148, images of, 179, 184, 187, 188, 238, 252, 253 214, 421 in Jātakas, 15, 99 Brahmanism, 8–11, 51, 55, 58, 105 irreversible, 159 and tantric Buddhism, 352 key ones, 176–8, 250–4 in Cambodia, 200 killing by, 152, 271 in comparison to Confucianism, 223 kings as, 197, 198, 200 brahma-vihāras (Pali and Skt, ‘divine abidings’), lay, 112, 404 154, 279, 327 Noble type of, 126, 156, 246 Brahmins, 9, 11, 25, 29, 399 pilgrimage sites of, 259 breathing, meditation on, 157, 320, 324, 326, 328, precepts of, 269, 274, 294, 297 334, 335, 337, 338, 342, 343, 354, 355, 362, reality-status of, 170, 189 367, 372, 443, 446 ā 160–1 165 ‘ ’ relation to Nirv ˙na, , brightly shining mind (Pali pabhassara citta, Skt retain slight attachment, 191 prabhāsvara citta), 68, 169, 173, 266, 355 self-sacrifice of, 157, 272 in Mahāyāna, 138, 139, 142, 143 some gods as, 15, 195, 227, 228, 384 in Theravāda, 92, 330 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-85942-4 - An Introduction to Buddhism: Teachings, History and Practices: Second Edition Peter Harvey Index More information 494 Index British in Asia, 199, 377, 382, 394, 395, 422 Buddha-recitation hall, 313 Budai (Pu-tai), 172, 176 Buddha-recollection, 105, 162, 173, 216, 318, 327, Buddha, nature and role of a, 1, 27–9.
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