1st Edition

Divine Revelation in Pali Buddhism

By Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copyright 1986

    Originally published in 1986.

    In this study of initiation in the Nikayas (Discourses of the Buddha), the author presents evidence which makes it clear that salvation in early Buddhism depended upon the intervention of the Buddha’s grace. Contrary to the view of Buddhism as a philosophy of self-endeavour, the picture that emerges from examination of the canonical texts is one of Buddhism as a revealed religion in every sense of the term.

     

     

    Chapter One: The Spiritual Division of the Buddhist World

    Chapter Two: The Path

    Chapter Three: The Goal

    Chapter Four: The New Brahmin

     

     

     

     

    Biography

    Masefield, Peter