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CzechCzech SaranaSarana TABLE OF CONTENTS (ONLY SUBJECTS) BPG. 301 – History of Indian Buddhist Philosophy......................................................................12 1 BPG. 302 – Buddhism and Contemporary Thought...................................................................114 PGI. 301 – Pāli Prescribed Texts – II...........................................................................................192 PGI. 302 – Advanced Pāli Grammar & Unprescribed texts......................................................299 RSG. 301 – Religion and Contemporary Issues...........................................................................382 RSG. 302 – Comparative Study of Religion.................................................................................420 TABLE OF CONTENTS (DETAILED ONE) Table of Contents (only subjects)................................................................................................................2 Table of contents (detailed one)...................................................................................................................2 Introduction...............................................................................................................................................11 BPG. 301 – History of Indian Buddhist Philosophy......................................................................12 Critical Outlook in Buddhism (2009)........................................................................................................13 Question: Give an interpretation to 'Abhidhamma' and discuss the reason which led to engaging it as separate piṭaka. (original by ven. Suvanny)........................................................................................................................15 The origin and development of Abhbidhamma tradition (original by ven. Suvanny)................................16 Question: Some discourses of early Buddhism led the way for the emergence of later Buddhist philosophical traditions. Discuss......................................................................................................................................17 Question: Examine the main view points of two schools, Theravāda and Mahāyāna................................18 Various Abhidhamma traditions (lectured by ven. Indasara).....................................................................19 Sautrāntika.................................................................................................................................................20 Sautrāntika (May 2009) ............................................................................................................................21 Sautrāntika (original by ven. Suvanny)......................................................................................................23 The emergence of Sautrāntic tradition as a reaction to the Abhidhamma; critical approach and mind-oriented thrends that arose from it. (lectured by ven. Indasara) (original by ven. Anik Cakma) (June 2004).......................24 Sautrāntikas' approach to 'object' (June 2006)...........................................................................................26 Sarvāstivāda (September 2009).................................................................................................................27 Abhidharma of Sarvāstivādins...................................................................................................................28 Sarvāstivādins' teaching on 'individual' – word & being (2009)................................................................29 Sarvāstivāda Abhidhamma (short notes)...................................................................................................30 Vibhajjavāda (original by ven. Nyāneinda)...............................................................................................30 Sabbattivāda (Pāli)/Sarvāstivāda (Sanskrit)...............................................................................................31 Sarvāstivāda (short notes)..........................................................................................................................31 Non-analytical cessation (Apratisaṅkya Nirodha) – no conditions for the production of defilements (2009)32 Yogācāra philosophy (original by ven. Suvanny)......................................................................................33 Yogācāra tradition and its basic concepts (NOT COMPLETED)..............................................................34 Question: Explain the function of consciousness in the process of the arising of a sentient being.............35 Vijñāptimātrata (original by ven. Santa)....................................................................................................36 The Yogācāra Idealism..............................................................................................................................37 Yogācāra idealism.....................................................................................................................................39 Question: Comment on how the Yogācārins used the concept of Vijñāptimātrika....................................40 Puggalavāda..............................................................................................................................................41 Pudgalavāda (March 2009)........................................................................................................................42 2 Shortnote.................................................................................................................................................................43 Buddha's utterances regarding puggalavāda...........................................................................................................44 Puggalavāda (original by ven. Suvanny)...................................................................................................44 Notes on puggalavāda................................................................................................................................45 Mahāsaṅghikas and Lokottaravādins.........................................................................................................46 Madhyamika..............................................................................................................................................47 Madhyamika philosophy...........................................................................................................................48 The Mahāyāna Madhyamika school..........................................................................................................49 The Madhyamikas' Dependent Origination...............................................................................................51 ??? (Madhyamikas' view on paṭiccasamuppāda).......................................................................................52 Madhyamikas' view towards an 'object'.....................................................................................................53 Question: Examine whether it is possible to compare Tathāgata-garbha concept in Mahāyāna which evolves consciousness saṃvattinika in early Buddhist texts. (Tathāgata-garbha or Alaya Viññāṇa) (original by ven. Anik Chakma)....................................................................................................................................................54 Question: Examine briefly the evolution of Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophy up to the theory of emptiness (śūnyatā). ...................................................................................................................................................................55 Question: Discuss how the dhammā theory of Abhidhamma influenced the origin of Śūnyatā philosophy?56 Question: Enunciate the mode of definition on the concept of Nirvāṇa in Mahāyāna Buddhism..............57 Question: Define the term Madhyamika and explain the emptiness according to the Mūla Madhyamika Kārika 58 Question: How did the Madhyamika school emphasize Śūnyatā as the ultimate reality? (original by ven. Im Dina & ven. H. Sovanny).......................................................................................................................................59 Question: How did the Madhyamika school emphasize Śūnyatā as the ultimate reality?..........................60 The concept of emptiness (śūnyaṃ and śūnyatā).......................................................................................61 Question: Explain the analysis of Śūnyatā according to Paṭiccasamuppāda..............................................62 Question: With reference to the intepretation of the connection between the cause and effect, explain how the Madhyamika tradition and Yogācāra tradition differ from each other?.....................................................62 Paṭiccasamuppāda (Dependent Co-origination) (original by ven. Sumitra) (February 2006)....................63 Paṭiccasamuppāda (February 2006)...........................................................................................................64 Abhidhammic Dhammavāda and its controversies (original by ven. Sīladīpa)..........................................65 Tantrayāna (Tantrism, Meditations) (2009)...............................................................................................66