Index enlightenment 36
obstacles to 20-2
Second Council 49-50
self 36
absolute truth 72
acceptance 15, 31
quest for 16--22
Siddhartha's 23-8
see also ego sexual tantra 121 - 2
afterlife see reincarnation see also meeting of Shantideva 67 alaya 74 minds ; Vajrayana siddha 118-19 anxiety and happiness 30 Entering the Mahayana Siddhartha Gautama 4 Ashoka, Emperor 58-9 Path 67 born 8 Asia see south-east Asia enlightenment 16-22
Far East 151-2
fear of death 12-14
Bardo , the 147
Bodhisattva 56, 88-90
actions 66-7
Bon 107-8
Britain 157
Buddha death of 45-6
nature 65
quest for enlightenment first followers , Buddha 42 home life 10-11
subjugation of self 18-19
happiness and anxiety 30 soul see reincarnation
Hinayana 51-3
Hui-Neng 91-6
India 150
south-east Asia 150
suffering 30-6
sunyata 69-70, 73
decline of Buddhism 60 tantra 120-4, 136-40
Taoism 78-81
Japan and Zen 97-106 teacher, importance
16-22
see also Siddhartha
Gautama
Buddhism in China 75-83
decline in India 60
expansion 58
history 173
rules 48-50
spread of 172
today 150-8
karma 24, 41
koan study 94-6
Mahayana 51-74
practice of 61-5
school 73
maitri 64
Manson, Charles 123
Mara 20-2
see also Zen Buddhism martial arts 1 04
meditation 38-40, 51
126--33
teach ings , Buddha 5 , 29
texts 7
Tibet 107-9, 153-4
Buddhism 110
and death 141-4
four schools 134-5
Tibetan Book of the Dead,
The 147
Th ich Nhat Hanh 166
Trungpa, Chogyam 160-1
truth see absolute truth ;
cause and effect 41
Chan see Zen Buddhism
China 75-83 , 152
meeting of minds 111
Nagarjuna 73
Noble Truths ; relative truth collective unconscious 74 near-death experiences 148 USA 156, 161 compassion 56, 65, 66 negativity 64 Confucianism 77 Noble Truths 29 Vajrayana 51-3 , 107, Crazy Wisdom see 110-28, 136-7, 149
Padmasambhava
Padmasambhava 114-18 Vimalakirti Sutra 70 Path, the 37 visualization 138
Dalai Lama 30, 154
perverted relative truth 72
on sexual tantra 121 prajna 66
West, Buddhism in 155-71
death 31 , 102-4
of Buddha 45-6
Siddhartha's fear of
12-14
present moment 34, 39-40 women in Buddhism 163-4
pure relative truth 72
reality 70-1
wheel of fortune see samsara
Tibetan understanding reincarnation 23, 145-6 yanas 51-6
of 141-a relative truth 72
Yogacara school 7 4
Diamond Sutra 84, 91 Roshi , Suzuki 158-9, 165 Discourse on the Four rules of Buddhism 48-50 Zen Buddhism 85-1 06
Noble Truths 29
dukkha 30
sadhana 138-40
samsara 23, 24
Japan 97
origins 86
teachings 99
ego 33
emptiness 69
Samurai warriors 104
sangha 42
