Translation

The passages of the Buddhist Suttas here translated contain many things which illumine different sides of the Buddha’s character. There is, first, an often repeated… Read More »A High Disciple, a Prophecy, and a Miracle

The manner in which the Buddhist scriptures came into being has set its mark on them in two ways. First, since those scriptures with which… Read More »The Sevenfold Counsels of Perfection

Among the discourses of the Buddha there is one named the Lakkhana Suttanta. The first part of the Pali name corresponds to the Sanskrit Lakshana,… Read More »The Doctrine of the Divine Man

Besides the supreme figure of the Buddha and the noble personalities of his leading disciples, a host of men and women are depicted in the… Read More »Visâkhâ: A Woman Disciple of the Buddha

The teaching of the Buddha, particularly where it is most profound and spiritual, is for all practical purposes identical with the teaching of the great… Read More »The Buddha’s Cosmology

For millenniums the Brahman community has dominated the religious and intellectual life of India. It may be added that, today, the Brahmans are working to… Read More »The Buddha’s Teaching of the Logos

It has been suggested that the principal purpose of the Buddha, in all that he did and taught, was the founding of an Order which… Read More »The Ideal Brahman

Toward the close of the nineteenth century, it was the custom among Occidental students of Buddhism to maintain that the Buddha had not laboured to… Read More »“For I Desired Mercy, and Not Sacrifice”

While the Suttas record instances in which the Buddha spoke eloquently to groups of villagers, to large numbers of men and women assembled in the… Read More »Building on Recollection

With the single exception, perhaps, of The Light of Asia, the popular narratives of the Buddha’s life surround the great story with coloured clouds of… Read More »Wise and Foolish Disciples

Many Orientalists of a by-gone day, misled, perhaps, by learned but undiscerning Southern Buddhists, held that Nirvana, the consummation of the Buddha’s path, meant annihilation… Read More »The Ladder of Consciousness

It is the custom of Orientalists to speak of Buddhism as a religion, and a very beautiful and intuitional book has been written, with the… Read More »The Chain of Causation

Something has been said of the relation of Siddhartha the Compassionate to the Masters, according to the Suttas and more modern witnesses. A living Aryan… Read More »A Visit to the Buddha

We have been told that Prince Siddhartha, son of King Suddhodana and Queen Maya, born in the ancient city of Kapila, was initiated into the… Read More »Among the Celestials

The rules of conduct which the Buddha enjoined on the members of his Order are embodied, as almost always, in a story; and again, as… Read More »Discipline for Disciples

It will be remembered [see “States of Consciousness”] that the crowd of pilgrims who, with Pilgrim Potthapada, were in residence in The Hall set about… Read More »Vestures of Consciousness

One of the Buddhist Suttas is known as the Potthapada Sutta, so called in honour of the Brahman to whom the Buddha addressed the teaching… Read More »States of Consciousness

The questions of King Ajatashatru, with the Buddha’s answers, make up the Sutta called The Fruits of Discipleship. There is a certain likeness between the… Read More »The Fruits of Discipleship