Sangharakshita is the founder and principal teacher of Triratna, a worldwide Buddhist movement. With teaching experience spanning 60 years, he is the author of over 40 books.

Foreword by Subhuti
Editor's Note
A Survey of Buddhism
Preface to the Sixth Edition
Chapter 1 The Buddha and Buddhism
1 The Approach to Buddhism
2 The Study of the Dharma: Methods and Materials
3 History Versus Tradition
(i) The Universal Context of Buddhism
4 History Versus Tradition
(ii) The Cosmological Perspective
5 The Lineage of the Enlightened One
6 Gautama the Buddha: His Greatness and Role
7 The Historical Uniqueness of the Dharma
8 Ineffable Nirva¿a
9 The Charge of Nihilism
10 The Positive Aspects of Nirva¿a
11 The Essence of Enlightenment
12 The True Nature of All Dharmas
13 Conditioned Co-Production: The Twelve Links
14 Sa¿sara and Nirva¿a
15 The Four Aryan Truths
16 The Threefold Way - The Middle Path - Morality
17 Meditation
18 Wisdom and the Arhant Ideal
19 The Foundations of Buddhism: Early Schools
Chapter 2
Hinayana and Mahayana
1 Is Buddhism One Or Many?
2 The Transcendental Unity of Buddhism:
The Dharma As Means
3 The Three Vehicles
4 Factors in the Emergence of the Mahayana
5 What Is Mahayana Buddhism?
6 The Trikaya Doctrine
7 The Two Truths: The Egolessness of All Dharmas
8 The Mahayana Sangha
Chapter 3
The Mahayana Schools
1 The Complexity of the Mahayana
2 The Five Spiritual Faculties
3 The Schematization of the Schools
4 The Scriptures of Perfect Wisdom
5 The New Wisdom School
6 The Scriptures of Devotional Buddhism
7 The Pure Land School
8 The Scriptures of Buddhist Idealism
9 The Yogacara School
10 Transition to the Tantra
11 Tantric Texts, Teachers, and Schools
12 Some Special Features of the Tantra
13 Integral Buddhism
Chapter 4
The Bodhisattva Ideal
1 The Unifying Factor
2 The Bodhisattva Versus the Arhant
3 The Path of the Bodhisattva:
Preliminary Devotional Practices
4 The Thought of Enlightenment
5 The Six Perfections
6 The Ten Perfections and the Ten Stages
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The Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path
Prefatory Note
1 Perfect Vision: The Nature of Existence
2 Perfect Emotion: Reason and Emotion in the Spiritual Life
3 Perfect Speech: The Ideal of Human Communication
4 Perfect Action: The Principles of Ethics
5 Perfect Livelihood: The Ideal Society
6 Perfect Effort: The Conscious Evolution of Man
7 Perfect Awareness: The Levels of Awareness
8 Perfect Samadhi: The Higher Consciousness
Notes
Index