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Chapter 1. The Path of Renunciation: The Common Vehicle
“Sensual pleasures have been…” The Buddha, The Sūtra to Potaliya (Potaliya Sutta); Bhikkhu Bodhi,
Buddha’s Words, p. 201.
“There are, householder…” The Buddha, The Collection of Numerical Discourses (Aṅguttara Nikāya);
Ibid., p. 127.
“I attained the…” The Buddha, The Wheel of the Dharma Sūtra (Dhamma Cakka Sutta); Sanderson Beck,
trans., online at san.beck.org/buddha.
On the Buddha: Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli, Life of the Buddha.
“Venerable sir, I…” Śāriputra; The Buddha, The Collection of Connected Discourses (Saṃyutta Nikāya);
Bhikkhu Bodhi, Buddha’s Words, p. 415.
“Nirvāṇa, devoid of…” Buddhaghoṣa, The Path of Purification (Visuddhi Magga); Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli,
Path of Purifcation, p. 6.
On Vasubandhu: His main texts are The Treasury of Further Doctrine (Abhidharma Kośa), Creating the
Five Aggregates (Pañca Skandha Prakaraṇa), The Thirty Verses on Mind Only (Triṃśikā Vijñāpti
Kārikā), and The Twenty Verses on Mind Only (Viṃśatikā Vijñāpti Kārikā). Biography: Tārānātha, The
History of Buddhism in India; Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya, Tārānātha’s History.
On Buddhagoṣa: His main text is The Path of Purification (Visuddhi Magga). Biography: Bhikkhu
Ñāṇamoli, Path.
“Even if bandits…” The Buddha, The Sūtra to Kakacūpama (Kakacūpama Sutta); Bhikkhu Bodhi,
Buddha’s Words, p. 278.
“In order to...” The Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Essence of the Heart Sutra, pp. 37-38.
On the Four Noble Truths: The Buddha, The Collection of Connected Discourses; Bhikkhu Bodhi,
Buddha’s Words, pp. 359-360.
On the Noble Eightfold Path: The Buddha, The Collection of Connected Discourses; Ibid., pp. 239-240.
“When a monk…” The Buddha, The Relaxation of Thoughts Sūtra (Vitakka Saṇṭhāna Sutta); Ibid., p.
277.
“We learn to…” Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu, Mindfulness with Breathing, p. 21.
On early Buddhist veneration of Vedic goddesses: Miranda Shaw, Buddhist Goddesses of India.
“The noble disciple…” The Buddha, The Collection of Numerical Discourses; Bhikkhu Bodhi, Buddha’s
Words, p. 127.
“Detached contemplation and…” Shaw, Buddhist Goddesses, p. 93.
“The most appropriate…” Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu, Mindfulness, pp. 41-42.
On early Indian and Buddhist culture as orgiastic: Arthur Basham, Wonder that was India; Robert
Briffault, Mothers; Herbert Guenther, Tantric View of Life; Garima Kaushik, Symphonies in Stone; David
Snellgrove, Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, pp. 127-128, 160.
“Orgies have been…” Guenther, Tantric View, p. 97.
“revelry” and “debauchery” Kaushik, Symphonies, pp. 99-107.
“Abandoning sexual misconduct...” The Buddha, The Sūtra to Cunda the Silversmith (Cunda
Kammaraputta Sutta); Thanissaro Bhikkhu, trans., online at accesstoinsight.org.
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