A Buddhist Bible: Table of Contents

PREFACE	9
HISTORY OF EARLY CH’AN BUDDHISM	15
SELF-REALISATION OF NOBLE WISDOM	37
Preface	39
Introduction	41
Chapter I Discrimination	45
Chapter II False Imagination and Appearance Knowledge	55
Chapter III Right Knowledge, or Knowledge of Relations	71
Chapter IV Perfect Knowledge, or Knowledge of Reality	81
Chapter V The Mind-system	87
Chapter VI Transcendental Intelligence	99
Chapter VII Self-realisation	109
Chapter VIII The Attainment of Self-realisation	121
Chapter IX The Fruits of Self-realisation	129
Chapter X Discipleship: Lineage of the Arhats	139
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Chapter XI Bodhisattvahood and Its Stages	147
Chapter XII Noble Wisdom that is Tathagatahood	157
Chapter XIII Nirvana	169
THE DIAMOND SUTRA. (Vajracchedika Sutra)	177
Introduction	179
The Diamond Scripture	181
SUTRA OF TRANSCENDENTAL WISDOM. (Maha-prajna-paramita-hridaya)	207
Preface	209
SUTRA OF THE SIXTH PATRIARCH	215
Preface	217
Chapter I Autobiography of Hui-Neng	219
Chapter II Discourse on Prajna	235
Chapter III Discourse on Dhyana and Samadhi	249
Chapter IV Discourse on Repentence	257
Chapter V Discourse on the Three-Bodies of Buddha	267
Chapter VI Dialogues	275
Chapter VII Sudden Enlightenment vs. Gradual Attainment	297
Chapter VIII Royal Patronage	305
Chapter IX Final Words and Death of the Patriarch	311

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