THE BOOKWASDRENCHED166170ujgOU~ JS> Qlm^GAUTAMA BUDDHA25th VolumeCentenary1956OSMANIA LIBRARYUNIVERSITYi2jj^u.Xc SNo.Call Accession qoNo. ta^^\l^(INJL-OUUO y N ;Author.This date lastmarked below.book should be returnedon or before theCONTENTSPage' 'l...ForewordEditorBy-StoneThe Master's Life in ... 7A.R. C. M.Kar,By16Buddha's LifeDates of Events in the ...PrincipalP. C. M. A.Sengupta,By... 21and ...The Buddha ...LanguageProf. FranklinBy Edgerton... ... 28Phonetic in Pali ...ConvergenceM.A.Madhusudan Mallik,By>Pali : Sanskrit: it' ......'smaraj*maraji 31Prof. Sukumar M.Sen, A., Ph.D.ByThe Buddhist Social Ideals ... ... ... 33B.Dr. G. M.A., Ph.D.Gokhale,ByBuddhist over the Five ...Controversy Propositions 40Prof. Et. LamotteBySome Buddhist Thinkers of Andhra cc... _Dr. P. S. M. Ph. D.Sastri, A.,By: AHarsa Buddhist ... ... ... 60^.Prot. Dasharatha D.Sharma, M.A., Litt.BySome Buddhist and Monuments ofAntiquities ... 62RajasthanR. C. M. A.By Agrawala,Buddhism in the Classical ... ... ...Age l^Miss Sudha M.A.By Sengupta,Buddhism in the Period ... ...Suhga ^ mGovindaKunja M.A.By Goswami,Place of Buddhism in Indian... ...ThoughtProf. Nalmaksha DuctBy... ... _Duhkha-Satya _Dr. W. RahulaByfi( )Page''... ... ......Nirodha-Satya 146Pandit Ananta KumarBy Nyaya-Tarkatirtha''...... ... ...Pratltyasamutpada 153Dr. Anukul Chandra Ph. D..Bancrjee, M.A.,ByBuddhist ... X... ...Psychology 57Bratindra Kumar M. A.By Sengupta ...
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...Foreword
EditorBy
-StoneThe Master's Life in ... 7
A.R. C. M.Kar,By
16Buddha's LifeDates of Events in the ...
Principal
P. C. M. A.Sengupta,By
... 21and ...The Buddha ...Language
Prof. FranklinBy Edgerton
... ... 28Phonetic in Pali ...Convergence
M.A.Madhusudan Mallik,By
>
Pali : Sanskrit: it' ......'smaraj*maraji 31
Prof. Sukumar M.Sen, A., Ph.D.By
The Buddhist Social Ideals ... ... ... 33
B.Dr. G. M.A., Ph.D.Gokhale,By
Buddhist over the Five ...Controversy Propositions 40
Prof. Et. LamotteBy
Some Buddhist Thinkers of Andhra cc... _
Dr. P. S. M. Ph. D.Sastri, A.,By
: AHarsa Buddhist ... ... ... 60^.
Prot. Dasharatha D.Sharma, M.A., Litt.By
Some Buddhist and Monuments ofAntiquities ... 62Rajasthan
R. C. M. A.By Agrawala,
Buddhism in the Classical ... ... ...Age l^
Miss Sudha M.A.By Sengupta,
Buddhism in the Period ... ...Suhga ^ m
GovindaKunja M.A.By Goswami,
Place of Buddhism in Indian
... ...Thought
Prof. Nalmaksha DuctBy
... ... _Duhkha-Satya _
Dr. W. RahulaByfi
( )
Page
''
... ... ......Nirodha-Satya 146
Pandit Ananta KumarBy Nyaya-Tarkatirtha
''
...... ... ...Pratltyasamutpada 153
Dr. Anukul Chandra Ph. D..Bancrjee, M.A.,By
Buddhist ... X... ...Psychology 57
Bratindra Kumar M. A.By Sengupta,
Brahman of Sankara ofand ... 162Sunyata Madhyamikas
Dr. M. D. Phil.A.,Ajit RanjanBy Bhattacharya,
A ofrare from Sanchi ... ...type Bodhisattva-Images 178
Mrs. Debala M.A.Mitra,By
Scientific of the Buddhist 182Tantras ... ...Background
Dr. B. M. Ph. D.A.,By Bhattacharyya,
in South-East AsiaBuddhism ... ... ... 189
Prof. R. C. M. Ph.A., D.Majumdar,By
of the ... ...Principle King's Righteousness 196
ADr. U. N. M. D.Ghoshai, , Ph.By
Buddhism in Ancient ... ...Kambujadesa 205
Dr. B. N. Ph. D.Puri, M.A.,By
ofHarivarman's ... ...211Theory Cognition
Prof. N. SastriBy Aiyaswami
216of ... ... ...Narayanpur Image Vinayaka
Nath M. A.Chakravarti,By Tapo
Zen Buddhism and Bodhidharma ... ... ... 221
Dr. W. Pachow
By
Buddhist View re. of the Vedas ...
Eternity 230
Heramba M. A.
Chatterjee,By
: Its in the of Buddhism ...
Pataliputra Importance History 233
M. A.Chaudhuri,By Binaycndranath
from Yunnan ... ...An Buddha Statue
early 244
LiebenthalDr. WalterBy
A Note of the ... ...Aryadharmadhatugarbhnvivarana 246
Sunitikumar M. A.Pathak,ByBUDDHAGAUTAMA
25th VolumeCentenary
1956
FOEEWOBD
The All-India Celebrations of the
twenty-fifth centenary
of the Great to ourSaint Gautama Buddha have served rouse
consciousness as to the and excellence of our cultural
grandeur
as also of our ancient easterncultural link with theheritage
countries of Asia. The of to Indiancontributions Buddhism
culture are varied in the domains of and literature,language
art and and moral andarchitecture, social ideals.
Gautama Buddha lived in an of iron-cased beliefs and
age
and he had to overcome an almost insurmountabletraditions,
offered athe ofopposition by orthodoxy largedeep-rooted
section of the with their established rituals and
people long
ceremonies. His both to thehowever,teachings, appealed
intellectuals and to the masses for the first time that
realizing
the of salvation could not be the of the few.
path monopoly
His on and his of the law ofself-reliance,emphasis exposition
andwere a notable contribution to Indian
causality thought
religion.
PHILOSOPHY: Gautama Buddha was in the
brought up
traditional faith and doctrines but he had the toIndian courage
their and usefulness in and ultimatelychallenge efficacy reducing
the human In
eliminating sufferings. pre-Buddha days, many
thinkers their minds to the of the butTruth,applied quest
totheir and beliefs have not come down us exceptthoughts
in the and the literature. In thethose found JainaUpanisads
the and its nature werethe about Truthformer, findings2 Foreword
and it is the monistic that foundvaried,
conception
The to this view,Truth,prominence. highest according
is and so it can be referred totranscendental, by negations
of known Gautama Buddha subscribedonly concepts.
to this view but he adhered to terms and
strictly negative
criticised all at about
attempts any positiveforming concept
the Itultimate Truth. has been in these words
expressed by
1
.:.Nagarjuna
H
,
connotes neither one nor it is neither annihila-
[It many;
tion nor this is the immortal of Buddhas,eternality teaching
the leaders of the world.]
His firmview in this is due to histhorough-going respect
. conviction that the is noAbsolute absolute and has
perfectly
relation whatsoever with the universe- It is the
composite
Asankhata or the un-and hence uncaused andunconstituted,
and oneconditioned, attributeless,unoriginated undecaying,
and the theand it has to do with thesame, Samkhata,nothing
constituted. He that 'it or 'it iswould not admit, even, is',
or it is both 'is and is or it is not both 'is and isnot', not',
1
not . In the first Sutta of the acknowledgedvery "Dtghanikaya
as histhe Btiddhavacana all sects of he warnedBuddhism,by
to about the Ultimates,disciples against any attempt speculate
he becould realised the Perfect withinwhich, said, byonly
one's own self veditabbo He instructed
(paccattam vinnuht).
them to their minds to the and of the
apply origin decay
constituted world which lacks and is tosubjectsubstantiality
and It is for this reason that hisimpermanence painfulness,
went to the utmost to the
disciples length analyse physical
a in theand mental constituents of Abhidhamma texts.
being
i u,Madhyamakakarik2,XVlll.