ESSENTIAL THEMES OF BUDDHISTS LECTURES
Venerable Sayadaw Ashin U Thittila
CONTENTS
A Brief Biography
I. Introductory Articles on Buddhism
1. The Buddha
2. The Buddha and his Message
3. What is Buddhism?
4. Buddhism
5. Theravada Buddhism
6. The Meaning of Buddhism
7. What Buddhism means to a Buddhist
8. Buddhism: The Path to Wisdom
9. A Short History of Buddhism
10. The Basic Philosophy of Buddhism
II. Talks involvingSilain particular
1. Buddhism in Burma
12. General News Talk (B.B.C. European Service)
13. A Buddhist View of World Peace
14. World Fellowship through Buddhism
15.Parami
III. Talks involving Samadhi in particular
16. The Middle Path
17. Buddhist Metta
18. Compassion
19. The Way to Nibbana
20. Miracle
21. What is Happiness?
22. The Foundations of Buddhism
23. Realities
24. How the Mind works
25. Mental Development
26.Jhanato Insight
27. Stages of Purity and Knowledge
IV. Talks involvingPannain Particular
28. TheAbhidhammaPhilosophy
29. Abhidhammatthasangaha (summary talk on Citta)
30. Paticcasamuppada
31. Nibbana
V. Talks dealing with Buddhism in general
32. What did the Buddha do for the World?
33. The Nature of Man and his Destiny (Extract)
34. WhatKammais
35. What is Death?
36. How Rebirth takes place
37. A Buddhist in Wartime
38. The Three Refuges
39. What Burma is doing for Buddhism
40. The Spiritual Basis of Asian Culture
41. Pali and Buddhism
