CONTENTS · 62 SECTIONS
The Discourse of Nāgasena — Cao Hữu Đính edition
Translated from the Chinese version by Cao Hữu Đính
Start reading →- 1. Non-Self and a Name
- 2. Names and Numbers
- 3. The Conditions for Dialogue
- 4. Milinda Invites Nāgasena to the Palace
- 5. The True Aim of Going Forth
- 6. Rebirth and the Way to Liberation
- 7. Wholesome Qualities
- 8. The Relationship Between Successive Lives
- 9. Knowing That Rebirth Has Ended
- 10. Wisdom and Clear Understanding
- 11. Is There Pain After Liberation?
- 12. Pleasure, Pain and Ethical Quality
- 13. Name-and-Form and Rebirth
- 14. A Question Already Answered
- 15. The Interdependence of Name and Body
- 16. Time
- 17. The Beginning of Birth and Death
- 18. Arising Through Conditions
- 19. The Question of a Permanent Soul
- 20. Sense Faculties and Mental Awareness
- 21. Contact
- 22. Feeling
- 23. Recognition
- 24. Thought and Intention
- 25. Inner Mental Activity
- 26. The Interweaving of Mental Experience
- 27. Salt
- 28. The Conditions of Sense Perception
- 29. Differences Between Human Lives
- 30. Doing Good Without Delay
- 31. The Fire of Hell
- 32. Water Supported by Air
- 33. Nirvāṇa
- 34. Did the Buddha Appear in the World?
- 35. The Buddha's Pre-eminence
- 36. The Old Body Does Not Return
- 37. The Body Ends, Actions Have Consequences
- 38. Predicting the Exact Result of Karma
- 39. Where Is Nirvāṇa?
- 40. Why Do Monastics Care for the Body?
- 41. Why Is the Buddha Unlike His Parents?
- 42. A Play on Words
- 43. Who Gave the Buddha the Precepts?
- 44. Tears of Understanding
- 45. Delusion and Understanding
- 46. Memory
- 47. Sixteen Ways of Remembering
- 48. The Buddha's Complete Understanding
- 49. Small Causes and Great Results
- 50. Preparing Before Danger Arrives
- 51. Spiritual Powers and Distance
- 52. Arriving at the Same Time
- 53. Seven Factors of Awakening
- 54. A Small Good Deed and Growing Merit
- 55. Understanding and the Consequences of Wrongdoing
- 56. Rising into the Air
- 57. A Bone Four Thousand Dặm Long
- 58. The Stillness of Breathing
- 59. The Sea
- 60. The Reach of Wisdom
- 61. Soul, Wisdom and Consciousness
- 62. The Buddha's Difficult Accomplishment