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Sayadaw U Thittilla
Essential Themes of
Buddhist Lectures
Essential
Themes
of
Buddhist
Lectures
by
Sayadaw U Thittila
Essential Themes of Buddhist Lectures
Sayadaw U Thittila
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The contents that follow in this small publication
comprise a collection of expanded notes prepared
for unconnected individual talks on Buddhism giv
en in the West by the author over the period 1938–
1983. They are not, therefore, subject matter nec
essarily for consecutive reading.
To give the differing teaching material and informa
tion surrounding the main themes, repetition of
phraseology in respect of the themes themselves is
an unavoidable feature; thus each short article is
here reproduced as originally conceived and with-
out regard to any repetition.
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CONTENTS
Part 1
INTRODUCTORY ARTICLES OR TALKS ON BUDDHISM
THE BUDDHA .......................................................... 9
THE BUDDHA AND HIS MESSAGE ............................... 18
WHAT IS BUDDHISM? ............................................... 22
BUDDHISM ............................................................. 27
THERAVADA BUDDHISM ............................................ 33
THE MEANING OF BUDDHISM (EXTRACT) ..................... 47
WHAT BUDDHISM MEANS TO A BUDDHIST ............