The Middle Way: The Story of Buddhism (abridged)

~ Release by Jinananda read by David Timson with Anton Lesser & Heathcote Williams (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Annotation

ISBN-10: 962-634-146-7
ISBN-13: 978-962-634-146-9

Annotation last modified on 2020-09-26 20:00 UTC.

Tracklist

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1CD
#TitleRatingLength
1The Birth of the Buddha
6:19
2The Training of Siddartha Gautama
3:45
3The Legend of the Four Sights: An Old Man - An Ill Man - A Dead Man - A Sramana
5:55
4The Decision and the Departure
3:53
5Siddartha's First Teacher - Alara Kalama and Udraka Ramaputra
5:22
6Austerities
10:48
7A Declaration of Intent
5:01
8The Night of the Enlightenment
7:07
9The Implications of His Awakening
3:00
10To Varanasi to Turn the Wheel of the Dharma
9:20
11Forty-Five Years of Teaching
4:05
12The Tales of Kisa Gotami, Angulimala and Devadatta
4:38
13Death and the Parinirvana
3:07
14The Final Moments: Impermanent Are ALL COMPOUNDED THINGS. With Mindfulness, Strive On
4:46
2CD
#TitleRatingLength
1The Dharma - The Teaching of the Buddha
6:11
2Thus I Have Heard
2:08
3A Direct Experience
3:16
4Pratitya Samutpada - Dependent Origination the Core Teaching of the Buddha
6:31
5Conditionality - A Process Without Beginning or End
3:52
6The Middle Way
6:07
7The Four Noble Truths
2:57
8The First Noble Truth - Suffering
5:22
9The Second Noble Truth - The Origin of Suffering Is Craving
3:43
10The Wheel of Life - A Mirror of Craving and Ignorance
1:28
11At the Centre - A Cock, a Pig and a Snake
1:06
12The Rise and Fall - Karma and Rebirth
7:32
13The Six Realms of Existence
5:24
14The Outer Rim of the Wheel
1:50
15The Third Noble Truth - The Cessation of Suffering - The End of Craving
7:26
16The Fourth Noble Truth - The Noble Eight-Fold Path
2:34
17The Eight Limbs of the Noble Eight-Fold Path
0:26
18Morality or Ethics
3:44
19Meditation
3:23
20Wisdom
1:36
21The Growth of the Dharma After the Buddha
2:39
3CD
#TitleRatingLength
1The Sangha
5:39
2The Dharma as a Raft - Designed Differently by Different Cultures
2:35
3The Spiritual Friendship of the Sangha
3:24
4The Vinaya, the Rule of the Monks
3:53
5The Development of Schools - The Theravada
4:28
6The Development of Images of the Buddha
4:39
7The Growth of the Mahayana - The Great Vehicle: i. A Deeper Relevance to Lay People
2:10
8The Growth of the Mahayana - The Great Vehicle: ii. The Bodhisattva Ideal
5:06
9The Growth of the Mahayana - The Great Vehicle: iii. Skilful Means - Art
1:12
10Skilful Means - The Sutras: The Written Word
2:34
11The Perfection of Wisdom Sutras - The Diamond Sutra
3:17
12The Heart Sutra
4:12
13The Madhyamika School
0:32
14The Yogacara Schol
2:33
15Worship
2:01
16Tantric Buddhism or the Vajrayana (Diamond Vehicle)
8:37
17The Tantra in Tibet - The Three 'Esoteric' Versions of the Three Jewels: i. The Buddha - The Teacher or Guru
3:22
18The Tantra in Tibet - The Three 'Esoteric' Versions of the Three Jewels: ii. The Dharma - The Yidam, a Visualised Symbol of a Tantric Deity, and Its Mantra
4:12
19The Tantra in Tibet - The Three 'Esoteric' Versions of the Three Jewels: iii. The Sangha - The Dakini
0:34
20The 11th Century Tibetan Yogi and Poet, Milarepa and His Teacher Marpa
2:17
21Buddhism in China and Japan - The Pure Land/Jodo Shinshu and Cha'an or Zen
9:48
22Buddhism in the West
2:21