The Middle Way: The Story of Buddhism - Jinananda read by David Timson with Anton Lesser & Heathcote Williams

The Middle Way: The Story of Buddhism

Other by Jinananda read by David Timson with Anton Lesser & Heathcote Williams

Released 1997

Tracklist

CD 1
1
The Birth of the Buddha
6:18
2
The Training of Siddartha Gautama
3:44
3
The Legend of the Four Sights: An Old Man - An Ill Man - A Dead Man - A Sramana
5:54
4
The Decision and the Departure
3:53
5
Siddartha's First Teacher - Alara Kalama and Udraka Ramaputra
5:22
6
Austerities
10:48
7
A Declaration of Intent
5:01
8
The Night of the Enlightenment
7:07
9
The Implications of His Awakening
3:00
10
To Varanasi to Turn the Wheel of the Dharma
9:20
11
Forty-Five Years of Teaching
4:05
12
The Tales of Kisa Gotami, Angulimala and Devadatta
4:38
13
Death and the Parinirvana
3:07
14
The Final Moments: Impermanent Are ALL COMPOUNDED THINGS. With Mindfulness, Strive On
4:45
CD 2
1
The Dharma - The Teaching of the Buddha
6:11
2
Thus I Have Heard
2:07
3
A Direct Experience
3:16
4
Pratitya Samutpada - Dependent Origination the Core Teaching of the Buddha
6:30
5
Conditionality - A Process Without Beginning or End
3:52
6
The Middle Way
6:07
7
The Four Noble Truths
2:57
8
The First Noble Truth - Suffering
5:22
9
The Second Noble Truth - The Origin of Suffering Is Craving
3:43
10
The Wheel of Life - A Mirror of Craving and Ignorance
1:28
11
At the Centre - A Cock, a Pig and a Snake
1:05
12
The Rise and Fall - Karma and Rebirth
7:31
13
The Six Realms of Existence
5:24
14
The Outer Rim of the Wheel
1:49
15
The Third Noble Truth - The Cessation of Suffering - The End of Craving
7:26
16
The Fourth Noble Truth - The Noble Eight-Fold Path
2:34
17
The Eight Limbs of the Noble Eight-Fold Path
0:26
18
Morality or Ethics
3:43
19
Meditation
3:22
20
Wisdom
1:35
21
The Growth of the Dharma After the Buddha
2:39
CD 3
1
The Sangha
5:38
2
The Dharma as a Raft - Designed Differently by Different Cultures
2:34
3
The Spiritual Friendship of the Sangha
3:23
4
The Vinaya, the Rule of the Monks
3:52
5
The Development of Schools - The Theravada
4:28
6
The Development of Images of the Buddha
4:39
7
The Growth of the Mahayana - The Great Vehicle: i. A Deeper Relevance to Lay People
2:10
8
The Growth of the Mahayana - The Great Vehicle: ii. The Bodhisattva Ideal
5:06
9
The Growth of the Mahayana - The Great Vehicle: iii. Skilful Means - Art
1:11
10
Skilful Means - The Sutras: The Written Word
2:33
11
The Perfection of Wisdom Sutras - The Diamond Sutra
3:17
12
The Heart Sutra
4:12
13
The Madhyamika School
0:32
14
The Yogacara Schol
2:32
15
Worship
2:00
16
Tantric Buddhism or the Vajrayana (Diamond Vehicle)
8:36
17
The Tantra in Tibet - The Three 'Esoteric' Versions of the Three Jewels: i. The Buddha - The Teacher or Guru
3:22
18
The 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
19
The Tantra in Tibet - The Three 'Esoteric' Versions of the Three Jewels: iii. The Sangha - The Dakini
0:34
20
The 11th Century Tibetan Yogi and Poet, Milarepa and His Teacher Marpa
2:16
21
Buddhism in China and Japan - The Pure Land/Jodo Shinshu and Cha'an or Zen
9:47
22
Buddhism in the West
2:21