The Doctrine of Awakening

The Doctrine of Awakening

"The Doctrine of Awakening: The Attainment of Self-Mastery According to the Earliest Buddhist Texts" is a book by philosopher and racial theorist Julius Evola. First published in Italian as "La dottrina del risveglio" in 1943. It was translated into English in 1948 by H.E. Musson, and republished in 1997 (ISBN 0-89281-553-1).

Table of Contents

*Translator's Foreword
*Preface
*Introduction
**Part I: Principles
*1. Varieties of Ascesis
*2. The Aryan-ness of the Doctrine of Awakening
*3. The Historical Context of the Doctrine of Awakening
*4. Destruction of the Demon of Dialectics
*5. The Flame and Samsaric Consciousness
*6. Conditioned Genesis
*7. Determination of the Vocations
**Part II: Practice
*8. The Qualities of the Combatant and the "Departure"
*9. Defense and Consolidation
*10. Rightness
*11. Sidereal Awareness: The Wounds Close
*12. The Four Jhana: The "Irradiant Contemplations"
*13. The States Free from Form and the Extinction
*14. Discrimination Between the "Powers"
*15. Phenomenology of the Great Liberation
*16. Signs of the Nonpareil
*17. The Void: "If the Mind Does Not Break"
*18. Up to Zen
*19. The Ariya Are Still Gathered on the Vulture's Peak
*Index

External links

* [http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-EPT/richard.htm Review of "The Doctrine of Awakening"] by Richard Smoley in "Parabola".
* [http://www.innertraditions.com/isbn/0-89281-553-1 Publisher's blurb for "The Doctrine of Awakening"] by Inner Traditions
* [http://www.stephenbatchelor.org/existence2.html Discussion on "The Doctrine of Awakening"'s translator] : Captain Harold Musson


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