Title	ð	Life of the Buddha
	Author	ð	H.R.H. Prince Vajirananavarorasa

LIFE OF THE BUDDHA

CONTENTS

VOLUME  ONE

 Foreword

CHAPTER ONE  :  Jambudipa and the people

CHAPTER TWO  :  The State of Sakka and the Sakyan people

CHAPTER THREE  :  The Buddha’s Birth

CHAPTER FOUR  :  Renunciation

CHAPTER FIVE  :  Enlightenment

Self-Mortification

Three Similis

Spiritual Exertion

CHAPTER SIX  :  First Sermon and First Disciples

CHAPTER SEVEN  :  Missionary Activity

Pioneer Preaching Movement Conversion of the Five-worshipping Hermits

CHAPTER EIGHT  :  Rajagaha and the Two Chief Disciples:

-Conversion of King Bimbisara

-The Two Chief Disciples

Venerable Sariputta

Venerable Moggallana

APPENDICES  :  1. The States and Their Capitals

     2. Figurative Expressions connected with the Buddha’s Birth

 VOLUME  TWO

CHAPTER NINE  :  The Buddha’s Activity in the State of Magadha

Maha Kassapa

The Great Gathering of the Noble Disciples

Permission for Dwelling Places

Rites for the Deceased

The Handing Over of Authority to the Sangha

The semi-secular aspect of the Doctrine

Offering to the deities

CHAPTER TEN  :  To the State of Sakka

CHAPTER ELEVEN  :  To The State of Kosala

Topography

The Building of Jetavana by Anathapindika

VOLUME THREE

CHAPTER TWELVE  :  Last Days of the Buddha

-  Preamble

-  Making a decision to pass away

-  Instuctions to Bhikkhus

-  The Last Meal by Cunda

-  Two Alms-Giving with equally Great Benefit

-  Two Kinds of worship

-  The Great Assemble of Gods

-  The Places inducing Dispassion

-  Concerning Women

-  How to treat the Tathagata’s body

-  Persons worthy of a thupa

-  Instruction to Ananda

-  Praise for Ananda

-  History of Kusinara

-  The Mallas’ Grief

-  The Last Contemporay Noble Disciple

-  Instruction to Bhikkhus

-  The Buddha’s Manner of Passing away

-  The Buddha’s Cremation

-  Maha Kassapa and Subhadda

-  Distribution of the Relics

-  Kinds of Cetiya

-  Later accounts concerning the Buddha’s Teachings

-  Translatior’s Notes :

   Kappa and lddhipada

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