本书稿是作者的博士论文。主要探讨菩萨思想的发展，从六个主要阶段分析了菩萨教义和实践，这六个阶段和印度佛教思想的学术分期是一致的。本书是英文版。

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Introduction

Chapter One: The Bodhisattva Doctrine And Career In Early

Scriptures

 A. The bodhisattva concept in Pali scriptures

A. 1.The qualities of the bodhisattva in the Jatakas

A.2. The Jatakas illustrated on the Bharhut Stupa

A.3. The bodhisattva concept in the Buddhava .rosa and Cariyapitaka

 B. Bodhisattva bhumis in the Mahavastu

 C. Assessments

Chapter Two: The Bodhisattva Concept In The Early Buddhist Schools

 A. The definition and emergence of the term bodhisattva

 B. The Jatakas according to the Sarvastivada

 C. The career and stage of the bodhisattva

 D. The bodhisattva's practice: the paramitas

 E. The identifications of the bodhisattva

 F. The bodhisattva's career and rank

Chapter Three: The Bodhisattva In Selected Early Mahayana Texts

 A. The .Sat.paramitasamgraha-sutra and the bodhisattva practices

 B. The Dao-zhi-da-jing and Sarvakarajfiana-carya-sutra on the importance of prajna

 C. The San-pin-jing (Triskandhasutra) and the bodhisattva practices

 D. The bodhisattva concept in the Buddhavadana-sutras

 E. An assessment of the bodhisattva concept in early Mahayaa texts

Chapter Four: The Bodhisattva Doctrine In The Early Prajnaparamitasutras

 A. Translation data and the date

 B. The original prajfiaparamiaparyaya

 C. Samadhi in the early Prajfiaparamita texts Assessments

Chapter Five: The Bodhisattva Doctrine In The Prajnaparamia-sutras

 A. The Minor Class of the Prajnaparamia-sutras

 B. Analogies as pedagogic tools

 C. The bodhisattva ideal in the later developed Minor Class of the Prajnaparamia-sutras

 D. Types of bodhisattvas

Chapter Six: The Paramitas

 A. The system of six paramitas in the Agamas

 B. The system of six perfections in Mahayana texts

B.1. The views on the six perfections

B.2. The Six Paraxnitas

 C. The system of the ten paramitas

 D. Assessment of the evolution of the six perfections

Chapter Seven: The Developed Theories Of gila, Dhyana And Prajfia Paramitas

 A. Developments in the theory of the silaparamita

A.1. The threefold group of morality (trividhasila)

A.2. Circumstances for committing offences

A.3. Developments of the silaparamita

A.4. Conviction and the serious breaches of discipline for a bodhisattva

A.5. Regulations for disclosing faults

A.6. The criteria for judging minor and major offences

 B. The developments in the theory of the dhyaaparamita

B.1. Samadhi in the Mahayana

B.2. The abilities of wonder-working

B.3. Samadhis in the sastras

 C. The developments in the theory of the prajnaparamita

C.1. Views of the bodhisattva prajnaparamita

C.2. Developments in the Mahayana prajnaparamita

Features of the prajnaparamita

Conclusion

Selected Bibliography

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