Buddhist Path, Buddhist Teachings

Naomi Appleton is Senior Lecturer in Asian Religions at the University of Edinburgh. Peter Harvey is Emeritus Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Sunderland.

• Preface 1. Lance Cousins: An Obituary, Appreciation and Bibliography Peter Harvey Meditation and the Buddhist Path 2. The Four Jhānas and their Qualities in the Pali Tradition Peter Harvey 3. Paths of Monastic Practice from India to Sri Lanka: Responses to L.S. Cousins' Work on Scholars and Meditators Bradley S. Clough, University of Montana 4. 'I'm Not Getting Anywhere with my Meditation ': Effort, Contentment and Goal-Directedness in the Process of Mind-Training Ajahn Amaro, Amaravati monastery, Hertfordshire Comparative Mysticism 5. John of the Cross, the Dark Night of the Soul, and the Jhānas and the Arūpa States: A Critical Comparative Study Elizabeth J. Harris, University of Birmingham 6. Emptiness and Unknowing: An Essay in Comparative Mysticism Rupert Gethin, University of Bristol Interpreting Buddhist Teachings 7. Ambiguity and Ambivalence in Buddhist Treatment of the Dead Richard Gombrich, University of Oxford 8. The Alagaddūpama Sutta as a Scriptural Source for Understanding the Distinctive Philosophical Standpoint of Early Buddhism P. D. Premasiri, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka 9. An Ekottarika-āgama Discourse Without Parallels: From Perception of Impermanence to the Pure Land Anālayo Bhikkhu, University of Hamburg Abhidhamma 10. Equal-headed (samasīsin): An Abhidharma Innovation and Commentarial Developments Tse-Fu Kuan, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan 11. Calligraphic Magic: Abhidhamma Inscriptions from Sukhodaya Peter Skilling, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 12. The Relation of the SaccasaṅkhepaṭīkāCalled Sāratthasālinīto the VinayavinicchayaṭīkāCalled VinayasāratthasandīpanīPetra Kieffer-Pulz, Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur Mainz Schools and Scriptures 13. The Formation of Canons in the Early Indian nikāyas or Schools in the Light of the New GāndhārīManuscript Finds Mark Allon, University of Sydney 14. Theriya Networks and the Circulation of the Pali Canon in South Asia: The Vibhajjavādins Reconsidered Alexander Wynne, University of Oxford Literature 15. Yaśodharāin Jātakas Sarah Shaw, University of Oxford 16. Jātaka Stories and Paccekabuddhas in Early Buddhism Naomi Appleton