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CONTENTS: A Life of the Buddha
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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BIRTH, YOUTH, RENUNCIATION
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Previous lives and the Heaven of the Contented
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The bodhisattva enters Mahamaya's womb
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Mahamaya's dream
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Birth
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The great rishi Asita's prophesy
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Death of Mahamaya
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Shuyddhodana's protectiveness
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The plowing festival
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Siddhartha displays his prowess
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Siddhartha marries
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The four visions
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Siddhartha frees the slaves and oxen
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The palace women in disarray
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Siddhartha leaves the palace
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HOMELESSNESS, TEACHERS, ASCETICISM
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Mara appears
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The bodhisattva doffs his finery
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The mendicant Gautama in Rajagriha
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King Bimbisara seeks out Gautama
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Gautama studies with Arada and Rudraka
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Gautama practices asceticism
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ENLIGHTENMENT
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Gautama's dream
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Sujata's gift
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The night under the Bodhi Tree
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Buddhahood
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TURNING THE WHEEL
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The Buddha meditates near the Bodhi Tree
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Muchalinda protect the Buddha
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The Buddha takes refuge in the Dharma but decides not to teach
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The god Sahampati
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Trapusha and Bhallika take refuge
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Upaka on the road
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The Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path
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The first five arhats
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The doctrine of nonself
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The conversion of Yasha and his friends
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The Buddha disperses the Sangha
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The pleasure outing
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The three Kashyapas
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GATHERING THE SANGHA
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Mara and his three daughters
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The fire discourse
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The conversion of the Rajagnhan householders
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Bimbisara gives the Venuvana
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Conversion of Shariputra and Maudgalyayana
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Mahakashyapa's illumination
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Return to Kapilavastu
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Shakyan arrogance tamed with wonders
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King Shuddhodana's conversion
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Nanda and Rahula enter homelessness
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The Shakyan princes and Upali the barber
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ESTABLISHING THE DHARMA
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Buddha permits the monks to live in shelters
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Conversion of Anathapindada
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Anathapindada outwits Prince Jeta
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Anathapindada gives the Jetvana
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The Buddha institutes the rainy-season retreat
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The Shakyans and Koliyans dispute
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The Buddha accepts women into the community
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Queen Khema and the phantasmic maiden
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The competition between the orders
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The Buddha teaches his mother
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Attempts to discredit the Buddha
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Father and Mother Nakula
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The great Kaushambi quarrel
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Tuskers serene
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The quarrel healed
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Simile for Bharadvaja
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Rahula instructed
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The famine at Veranja
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Supprabuddha's demise
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COMPASSION'S RIPENESS
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Vishakha becomes Mrigara's mother
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Vshakha gives the Purvarama
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The Buddha appoints Ananda
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Conversion of Angulimala
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The Buddha dismisses and recalls the Sangha
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Sudinna's tryst
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The Buddha proclaims the monastic code
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The Buddha's daily routine
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The Buddha refuses to recite the pratimoksha
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Three robes are enough
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Introduction to Shrona
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Care for the sick
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DEVADATTA
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Ajatashatru elevates Devadatta
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Devadatta asks the Buddha to retire
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The Buddha denounces Devadatta
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Ajatashatru and Devadatta's plot
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Devadatta wounds the Buddha
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The buddha tames Nalagiri
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A schism in the Sangha
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Devadatta's defeat
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LAST YEARS
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King Prasenajit pays a visit
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The future Pataliputra
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The courtesan Amrapali and the godlike Licchavis
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The Buddha is gravely ill
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Death of the great disciples
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The earthquake at the Chapala Shrine
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The Buddha announces his parinirvana
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The meal at Chunda the goldmith's
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Kusala presents the golden robes
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Conversion of Subhadra
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Parinirvana
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A Short History of Buddhism
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Notes
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Suggested Further Readings
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