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.

• Preface1. Lance Cousins: An Obituary, Appreciation and BibliographyPeter HarveyMeditation and the Buddhist Path2. The Four Jhānas and their Qualities in the Pali TraditionPeter Harvey3. Paths of Monastic Practice from India to Sri Lanka: Responses to L.S. Cousins’ Work on Scholars and MeditatorsBradley S. Clough, University of Montana4. ‘I’m Not Getting Anywhere with my Meditation …’: Effort, Contentment and Goal-Directedness in the Process of Mind-TrainingAjahn Amaro, Amaravati monastery, HertfordshireComparative Mysticism5. John of the Cross, the Dark Night of the Soul, and the Jhānas and the Arūpa States: A Critical Comparative StudyElizabeth J. Harris, University of Birmingham6. Emptiness and Unknowing: An Essay in Comparative MysticismRupert Gethin, University of BristolInterpreting Buddhist Teachings7. Ambiguity and Ambivalence in Buddhist Treatment of the DeadRichard Gombrich, University of Oxford8. The Alagaddūpama Sutta as a Scriptural Source for Understanding the Distinctive Philosophical Standpoint of Early BuddhismP. D. Premasiri, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka9. An Ekottarika-āgama Discourse Without Parallels: From Perception of Impermanence to the Pure LandAnālayo Bhikkhu, University of HamburgAbhidhamma10. Equal-headed (samasīsin): An Abhidharma Innovation and Commentarial DevelopmentsTse-Fu Kuan, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan11. Calligraphic Magic: Abhidhamma Inscriptions from SukhodayaPeter Skilling, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok12. The Relation of the Saccasaṅkhepaṭīkā Called Sāratthasālinī to the Vinayavinicchayaṭīkā Called VinayasāratthasandīpanīPetra Kieffer-Pülz, Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur MainzSchools and Scriptures13. The Formation of Canons in the Early Indian nikāyas or Schools in the Light of the New Gāndhārī Manuscript FindsMark Allon, University of Sydney14. Theriya Networks and the Circulation of the Pali Canon in South Asia: The Vibhajjavādins ReconsideredAlexander Wynne, University of OxfordLiterature15. Yaśodharā in JātakasSarah Shaw, University of Oxford16. Jātaka Stories and Paccekabuddhas in Early BuddhismNaomi Appleton