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The Making of a medicine man : Wiradjuri tribe (Southeast Australia) --<br/>A Medicine man's initiation : Kurnai Tribe (Southeast Australia) --<br/>The Initiation of a Binbinga medicine man (Central Australia) --<br/>The Initiation of an Australin medicine man : Unmajera Tribe (Central Australia) --<br/>How Lebid became a Shaman (Kwakiutl Indian) --<br/>The "Enlightenment" of the Eskimo Shamans (Iglulik) --<br/>An Initiatory dream of a Samoyed shaman --<br/>Mystical marriage of a Siberian (Goldi) Shaman) --<br/>A Powerful Shaman (Apache) --<br/>Soul-loss and magical cure (Apinayie of Eastern Brazil) --<br/>A Yukagir Shaministic sieance (Northeastern Siberia) --<br/>An Eskimo shaman descends to the bottom of the ocean --<br/>Black magic : an Australian sorcerer (Arnhem Land). An African divine King (Nyasaland) --<br/>The Death of Orpheus --<br/>Empedocles goes among men as an immortal --<br/>The Flamen dialis and his wife (Aulus Gellius : Attic Nights, X, 15) --<br/>Augustus : "Father of his own Fatherland" --<br/>Nichiren proclaims himself the "Bodhisattva of superb action" --<br/>Nichiren's transfiguration while living in retirement. The Indian Ascetic (The Laws of Manu, VI, 33-65) --<br/>Gotama Buddha talks of his ascetic practices (Majjhimanikiaya, XII) --<br/>Gotama Buddah practised the most severe asceticism and became a master in Yoga (Majjhima-nikiaya, XXXVI) --<br/>Jain doctrines and practices of nonviolence (ahimsia) : the example of Mahiavira (Akiarianga-siutra, I, 8, I.3-IV, 8) --<br/>Milarepa extols his "five comforts" --<br/>Al-Hasan extols asceticism. Zarathustra is being repulsed by everybody (Yasna 46) --<br/>Prince Siddhiartha encounters old age, sickness and death (Diigha-nikiaya, XIV) --<br/>Gotama's first masters : Kialiama and Riamaputta (Majjhima-nikaiaya, XXVI) --<br/>After the illumination the Buddha proclaims : I am the Holy One in this world, I am the highest teacher ..." (Mahiavagga, I, 7-9) --<br/>Gotama Buddha ponders : "Must I now preach what I so hardly won?" (Majjhima-nikiaya, XXVI) --<br/>Gotama Buddha remembers his earlier existences (Majjhima-nikiaya, IV) --<br/>The Buddha enters Nirviana (Ashvagosha : Buddhacarita, XXVI, 83-6, 88-106). Muhammad's call (at-Tabari) --<br/>Muhammad is the messenger of god (Koran, XLVII, 31-3) --<br/>Muhammad proclaims the Koran, "The Book wherein is no doubt ..." (Koran, II, 1-23) --<br/>Allah tells Muhammad the story of Abraham (Koran, XIX, 42-52) --<br/>Allah reveals to Muhammad how He saved the Children of Israel (Koran, XVII, 104-9) --<br/>Allah sent the Torah, the Prophets, and Jesus, Son of Mary (Koran, V, 50-3) --<br/>Muhammad speaks by revelation (Koran, XLII, 50-4). A Neoplatonist philosopher on the arts and effects of ecstacy (Iamblichus : On the Mysteries, III,4-6) --<br/>Concentration "on a single point" --<br/>Yogic postures (iasana) and respiratory discipline (Prianiayiama) --<br/>Yogic concentration and meditation --<br/>Samiadhi --<br/>Kiuya : "The Saint of the streets" : a pioneer of the Pure Land Buddhism --<br/>Hionen and the invocation of Amida, The Buddha of Boundless light --<br/>Shinran : "The Nembutsu alone is true" (Tannishio, slelctions) --<br/>Nichiren and the adoration to the lotus of the perfect truth" --<br/>Realizing the solution (Genjio Kioan) --<br/>Sitting and the Kioan --<br/>The Importance of sitting --<br/>Contempt for the Scriptures. Muhammad's ascension --<br/>Muhammad's meeting with his lord --<br/>A Sufi mystic speaks to his god (Dhu 0l-Niun, the Egyptian) --<br/>Abiu Yaziid's mystical ascension --<br/>Al-Junaid on union and separation --<br/>Al-Halliaj speaks of God : I am he whom I love ..." --<br/>The "Revelation" of al-Niffarii --<br/>Al-Ghazialii's conversion to Sufism --<br/>Riumii does not recognize himself. Egyptian pessimism : a dispute over suicide --<br/>The Egyptian song of the harpist : "None returneth again that is gone thither ..." --<br/>The Egyptian disillusion and despair : the admonitions of Ipu --<br/>A Jain parable : The Man in the well (Haribhadra : Samariadityakathia, II, 55-88) --<br/>The Indestructible, eternal self : Krishna's teaching to Arjuna (Bhagavad Giitia, II,16-26,47) --<br/>Greek pessimism (Mimnermos of Kolophon, Kallinos, Semodides, Simonides of Keos) --<br/>A Pagan philospher on the use of images (Maximus of Tyre) --<br/>Religious skepticism in Cicero's time (Cicero : the Nature of the Gods, II, 79-95) --<br/>Allah is nearer to man than the jugular vein (Koran, L, 1-15) --<br/>God "knows the thoughts within the breasts" (Koran, XXIX, 5-10) --<br/>"Where is the land in which one does not die?" ; A Mexican lament (Nihuatl). An Eguptian religious thinker : the instruction for King Meri-ka- re --<br/>The Teaching of Amenemope --<br/>"I am a mortal, a man" (Aeschylus : Agamemnon, 914-30) --<br/>The Jain conception of Karman (Siutrakritianga, I, 2,1) --<br/>King Ashoka discriminates between meaningless ceremonies and the "Ceremonies of Dharma" (Rock Edict, IX) --<br/>Ashoka's change of heart and the ideal of conquest by Dharma (Rock Edict, XII) --<br/>King Ashoka against religious intolerance (Rock Edict, XII) --<br/>Ashoka against agression and tension between States (Kalinga Edict, II) --<br/>The Golden Age : the Confucian age of Grand Unity (Li-chi) --<br/>The Teachings of Confucius (Analects, selections). The Parable of the arrow : Gotama Buddha refuses to discuss metaphysical problems (Majjhima-Nikiaya, I, 426 ff.) --<br/>The Middle path which leads to wisdom and conduces of Nirviana (Mahiavagga, I, 5, 17-30) --<br/>Profitable and unprofitable doctrines (Samyuttanikiaya, V, 437) --<br/>The Buddha explains the noble eightfold way (Samyuttanikiaya, V, 8) --<br/>The Parable of the fire : a Tathiagata is like a burned-out fire (Majjhima- nikiaya, I, 485 ff,) --<br/>The Parable of the oil lamp : the extinction of craving (Samyutta-nikiaya, II, 86) --<br/>The Buddha's advice to Sariputra (Sutta Nipiata, 964-75) --<br/>The Buddha's "way of virtue" (Dhammapada, selections). Zarathustra asks the Lord ... (Giathia : Yasna 44) --<br/>Naciketas' third wish (Katha Upanishad, I, 1, selections) --<br/>"Explain to me the Brahman ..." (Brihad-iaranyaka Upanishad, III, 4,12) --<br/>"How many gods are there, Yiajunavalkya?" "One" (Brihad-iaranyaka Upanishad, III, 9, 1) --<br/>"This is the self of mine ... this is Brahman" (The Upanishads, selections) --<br/>Whenever order (Dharma) languished, Krishna manifests himself (Bhagavad Giitia, (IV, 1-9, 14) --<br/>The Teachings of the Bhagavad Giitia : "What ever thou doest, do as an offering to Me" (Bhagavad Giitia, IX, VI, VII, selections) --<br/>Tao, the ultimate reality (Tao Toe Ching, selections) --<br/>Chuang Tzu discourses on Tao. Nuer conception of God --<br/>Wisdom, liberation, imortality (Shvetiashvatara Upanishad, III, V, Vi, selections) --<br/>Shankara on the nature of Brahman --<br/>Riamianuja on Brahman : "Brahman is to be meditated upon as constituting the self of the meditating devotee" --<br/>Zoroastrian Dualism : a systemic presentation (Shikand Gumianii Vaziar, chapter VIII) --<br/>Epicurus on the Gods (Letter to Menoccus, 123-6) --<br/>The Muslim doctrine of God (Jamial ad-Diin Al-Qsimii) --<br/>The Essence of Islam (Al-Malatii : Kitiab at-tanbiih). |