The Table of Contents

 The Table of Contents

 

 

Declaration of the doctrine of the transmigration of the substance of soul

 

Upon the occasion of publishing the book

 

I. Lamentation over the true aspect of the mislead and diminished Buddhism of the world

II. Opening of a new chapter of the world history of Buddhism

 

1. Lamentation over the misleading concept of 'non-self': the principal cause of the decline of Buddhism

2. Opening of a new chapter of the world history of Buddhism

 

III. An overview of 'non-self' and the Buddhist history on the problems of the substance of transmigration

 

1. An overview of the doctrine of 'non-self' in the early Buddhism

2. Understanding of the doctrines of 'non-self' and the substance of transmigration at the time of Manifold Schools of Buddhism

3. Understanding of 'non-self' and the substance of transmigration in the age of Mahayana Buddhism

4. Controversy of Hinduism and Christianity on the doctrine of Buddhism and our defence against their challenge: chiefly on 'non-self', the substance of transmigration, and the substance of soul

 

IV. Right understanding of 'non-self' and the world of 'true-self'

 

1. Right meaning of the doctrine of 'non-self': 'non-self' is the concept bound to the phenomenal world

2. Buddha's raising a lotus flower at the Vulture Peak congregation was Lord's teaching of 'non-self' and the realm of noumenon

3. The realm of noumenon of the Four Virtues of Nirvana: Buddha's exposition of the realm of 'self'

4. True-self is the substance of soul itself: the hero of the sentient being in hell who advances from the hell to attaining the Buddhahood

 

V. The nucleus of transmigration is the substance of soul of 'no-self'

 

1. Doctrine of 'non-self', the transmigration of 'non-self', and the transmigration of 'subsistent-self'

2. The substance of soul of 'no-self' is the nucleus of transmigration: transmigration of 'subsistent-self'

3. A critical study of the theory of transmigration in the Buddhist circle

VI. The interpretation of misleading doctrines of 'non-self': the transmigration of 'non-self' disturbs the foundation of Buddhism

 

1. Transmigration of 'non-self' is the violation of the law of causality

2. The loss of the basis of the doctrines of transmigration in the six realms of karmic existence and enlightenment

3. Negation of the subsistence of Buddha and Bodhisattvas

4. The loss of the basis of the Buddhist ceremony for the spirits of the deceased

5. If there is no substance of soul, there is no way to be reborn with the physical body

6. If there is no world of self in the realm of ultimate reality, there is no way to claim the greatness of Buddhism

7. The great sage has a clear insight to see the substance of soul

 

 VII. Conclusion on the arguments of 'non-self' and the nucleus of transmigration