Alone with others : an existential approach to Buddhism

106 Pages·1983·0.72 MB·English

by  Batchelor

Alone With Others
ALSO BY STEPHEN BATCHELOR
A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life,
A Translation from the Tibetan
of Shantideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra
Alone With Others
AN EXISTENTIAL APPROACH TO BUDDHISM
STEPHEN BATCHELOR
FOREWORD BY JOHN BLOFELD
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Batchelor, Stephen.
Alone with others.
(Grove Press Eastern philosophy and literature series) Bibliography: I.
Buddhism—Doctrines. I. Title. II. Series. BQ4150.B37 1983 294.3’42 82-21054
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To my mother
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to thank the following people who have contributed in various ways
to the completion of this work:
H. H. The XIV Dalai Lama; Geshé Rabten; Geshé Ngawang Dargyey; the
students of Tharpa Choeling, Center for Tibetan Studies, Switzerland; Anila
Anne Ansermett; Frau Dora Kalff; Dr. Martin Kalff; Herr Richard Gassner; the
Tibetisches Zentrum, Hamburg; Professor Herbert V. Guenther; Dr. Michael
Levin; John Blofeld; and Hannelore Rosset.
CONTENTS
FOREWORD BY JOHN BLOFELD
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. HAVING AND BEING
1. The Dimension of Having
2. The Buddha’s Renunciation
3. The Paradigmatic Character of the Buddha’s Life
CHAPTER II. THE TASK OF CLARIFICATION
4. The Elaboration of the Existential Questions
5. The Answers of Historical Buddhism
6. The Problem of Contemporary Formulation
CHAPTER III BEING-ALONE
7. The Phenomenological Approach
8. Aloneness and Anxiety
9. Taking Refuge
CHAPTER IV. BEING-WITH
10. The Ontological Ground of Participation
11. Inauthentic Being-With-Others
12. Authentic Being-With-Others
CHAPTER V. WISDOM AND METHOD
13. The Unity of Being-Alone and Being-With
14. Wisdom
15. Method
CHAPTER VI. THE OPTIMUM MODE OF BEING
16. The Two Bodies of the Buddha
17. Is the Buddha Still Alive?
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
GLOSSARY