Research Catalog

Title

Great disciples of the Buddha : their lives, their works, their legacy / Nyanaponika Thera and Hellmuth Hecker ; edited with an introduction by Bhikkhu Bodhi.

Author

Nyanaponika, Thera, 1901-1994.

Publication

Boston : Wisdom Publications in collaboration with the Buddhist Publication Society of Kandy, Sri Lanka, 2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hecker, Hellmuth.
• Bodhi, Bhikkhu.
• Buddhist Publication Society.

Description

xxxiii, 411 pages; 23 cm

Subjects

• Biographies
• Disciples
• Gautama Buddha

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-394) and index.

Contents

Sariputta: The Marshal of the Dhamma -- The Quest for the Dhamma -- Early Life -- The Original Aspiration -- Sariputta in the Jatakas -- Sariputta the Man -- The Chief Disciple -- The Helper -- The Unresentful -- Friendships and Relatives -- The Mediator -- The Turner of the Wheel -- The Suttas -- Expository Works -- The Abhidhamma -- The Further Shore -- The Last Debt Paid -- Cunda Sutta -- Ukkacela Sutta -- Discourses of Sariputta -- Majjhima Nikaya -- Digha Nikaya -- Anguttara Nikaya -- Samyutta Nikaya -- Mahamoggallana: Master of Psychic Powers -- Youth -- Wandering and Spiritual Search -- Finding the Dhamma -- The Struggle for Realization of the Teaching -- The Most Excellent Pair of Disciples -- Moggallana's Psychic Powers -- Penetration of Others' Minds (Thought Reading) -- The Divine Ear (Clairaudience) -- The Divine Eye (Clairvoyance) -- Travel by Mind-Made Body (Astral Travel) -- Telekinesis (Supernormal Locomotion) -- The Power of Transformation -- Moggallana's Previous Lives -- Moggallana's Verses -- The Last Days of Moggallana -- Moggallana's Death -- Mahakassapa: Father of the Sangha -- Kassapa's Early Years -- Bhadda Kapilani -- The Samsaric Background -- How Kassapa Came to the Buddha -- Kassapa's Relationship to the Buddha -- Encounters with Deities -- Relations with Fellow Monks -- After the Buddha's Parinibbana -- The Verses of Mahakassapa -- Ananda: Guardian of the Dhamma -- Ananda's Personal Path -- Ananda's Renown -- The Buddha's Attendant -- The Guardian of the Dhamma.

ISBN

• 0861713818
• 9780861713813

LCCN

• 2003011831
• 99965617615

OCLC

• ocm52431027
• 52431027
• SCSB-13544330

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries