An Illustrated Outline of Buddhism: The Essentials of Buddhist Spirituality (42 page)

Index

143

satori
(sudden il umination, unitive Sil a Dynasty (Korea), 110

knowledge), 116

Sītā-Rām (Hindu invocatory

sattva
(upward tendency), 131

prayer), 97

“schools”, “sects”,
ix
,
xi
, 1, 20, 23, 24,

skandha
s (attributes of individual-

53, 55, 58, 83, 84, 89, 90, 93,

ity), 39, 40, 67

101, 102, 116, 117, 121

Songtsen Gampo, King, 89, 92

Schuon, Frithjof, 5, 40, 51, 53, 59, 68, soteriology, 5

77, 80, 93, 124, 125, 129, 136

soul (
psyche
,
anima
), 24, 43, 44, 48,

“sects”.
See
“schools”, “sects”

50, 67, 97, 123, 124, 125

Semitic monotheisms, 9, 10

Spirit (
Pneuma
,
Spiritus
), 48, 50, 61,

Seng ts’an,
ix
, 63

68

serenity (
upekshā
), 30

spirituality, mysticism, 1, 2, 5, 46,

Shakti
, 93

50, 93

Shākyamuni,
ix
, 13, 17, 18, 32, 79

Sri Lanka,
vii
, 2, 16, 20, 40, 49, 53,

Shākya tribe, 13, 32

82, 83, 135

shamanism, 10, 54, 129

Steinilber, E., 117, 136

Shan-Tao, 65

Stewart, Harold, 115, 136

Shāriputra, 19

stūpa
(s) (reliquaries), 26, 27, 28, 29

Shigatse, 99

Subject, Divine (God Immanent),

shīla
(renunciation, morality), 35, 77

1, 31n

Shingon
school, 58, 101, 113, 116,

suffering (
duhkha
),
xii
, 13, 31, 32,

117, 121

35, 40, 43, 46, 51, 67, 70, 93,

Shinran, 65, 117, 159

94

Shinsō, 117

Sufism (Islamic mysticism), 68, 127,

Shinto, Shintoism, 9, 10, 54, 129,

158, 160, 161, 162

130, 132, 133

Suiko, Empress, 113

Shiva (Hindu God), Shivaite, 7, 55,

Sujātā (Nandabala), 14

93

Sukhāvatī
, 2, 17, 43, 55, 58, 65, 79,

Shōmu, Emperor, 129

80, 81, 121.
See also
Western

Shōtoko Taishi, 113

Paradise

Shubhākarasimha, 101

Sukhāvatī-Sūtra
, 17

Shuddhōdana (father of the Bud-

Sumatra, 83

dha), 13

Supreme Being,
xi
, 1, 2, 9, 31, 32.
See

Shūnyamūrti
(Manifestation of

also
Object, Divine

Void), 31, 32

Supreme State,
xi
, 1, 2, 9, 31, 32.
See

Shūnyatā
(Void), 31, 44, 77

also
Subject, Divine

Shwedagon Pagoda, Rangoon, 83, 85
Sutta Pitaka
(“Instruction Basket”),

Siam, 53, 58, 83, 84.
See also
Thai-

16

land

Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro, 2, 136

Siddhārtha, 13, 14.
See also
Buddha, symbol, symbolism, 13, 31, 44, 93,

Siddhārtha Gautama

97, 132

Siddhatta Buddha, 39, 54

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tamas
(downward tendency), 131

Tsongkhapa, 91, 92

Tan-gun, 110

tulku
s, 99

T’an-Luan (Donran), 65

tantra
, 55, 93, 94, 97

Udāyana, King, 23

Tantrayāna
, 58, 90, 93, 134

Udraka Rāmaputra, 13

T’ao-Ch’o, 65

Ultimate Reality,
xi
, 1, 2, 6, 9, 31, 32,

Tao-hsin, 63

40, 127

Taoism, 9, 10, 54, 101, 127, 129

upāya
(“formal doctrine and meth-

Tārā, 6, 60, 68, 70, 72, 89, 96, 97.
See

od”), 55, 93, 94

also
Green Tārā; White Tārā

Uttar Pradesh, 17, 21, 24

tariki
(“power of the Other”), 55

Tathāgata
, 32, 44, 50, 81

Vairochana, 2, 72, 77, 129

Tendai
(
T’ien-tai
) sect, 58, 101, 116,

vajra
(lightning, diamond), 91, 93

117, 121

Vajrabodhi, 101, 113

Thailand, Thais,
ix
, 2, 33, 46, 53, 56,

Vajrachchedikā-Sūtra
, 4, 17

83, 84, 85

Vajradhara, Mahāvairochana,
xi
, 2,

t’hanka
(Tibetan silk scroll), 27, 29,

31, 32, 45, 70, 72, 77, 116

35, 41, 95, 122

Vajrakāya
, 134

theodicy, 5

Vajrayāna
, 14n, 55, 58, 59, 89, 90,

theophany, 31, 51, 93

93, 94, 101, 113, 121, 134

Theravāda
,
Hīnayāna
,
xi
, 1, 2, 9, 20,

Vasubandhu, 21, 61, 65

22, 31, 53, 54, 58, 59, 83, 84

Vātsīputrīya
, 53

Three Jewels (
Triratna
), 16

Vedānta
, 93, 127

Tibet, Tibetan Buddhism,
ix
, 3, 10,

Vedas, 31

13, 27, 29, 35, 41, 43, 53, 54,

Vietnam, 53, 58, 83

58, 68, 73, 88, 89, 90, 91, 93,

vihāra
s (resting places), 27

95, 97, 99, 129, 135, 136

vijñāna
,
Vijñānavāda
, 21, 39

Tien T’ai
sect, 58, 59

Vinaya Pitaka
(“Discipline Basket”),

Tilopa, 90, 92

16, 44, 76

titles of the Buddha, 31

vīrya
(virility), 77

Transcendence and Immanence, 1,

Vishnu (Hindu God), 7, 39

2, 31n, 127

Void (
Shūnyatā
), 31, 32, 44, 77

transmigration, 123, 124

vows of the Buddha (
pranidhāna
s),

trikāya
(three “bodies” of the Bud-

79

dha), 50

trilakshana
(three conditions of

Wei-shih
(“Consciousness Only”

existence), 43

school), 102, 121

Tripitaka
,
Tipitaka
, 16

Western Paradise, 43, 73, 79, 99

Triratna
(Three Jewels or Refuges),

Wheel of the Law (
Dharma-chakra
),

16

14, 26, 32, 33, 36, 54, 55, 93

trishnā
(“craving”), 35

White Tārā, 60, 70, 89

Trisong Detsen, King, 89, 92

will (
pranidhānabala
), 2

Index

145

Yab-Yum
(“father-mother”), tantric

zazen
, 116

statue, 97

Zen,
ix
, 19, 21, 54, 55, 58, 59, 61, 63,

Yashodharā (wife of the Buddha), 13

101, 116, 117, 118, 121, 135,

Yogāchāra
, 21, 121

136

Zoroastrianism, 10

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