序：人生通往哪里？prologue:the path of life................................................1佛教圣典buddhistsacred scriptures...............................................1圣者樹下的沉思saint’s contemplation under bodhi tree.............................2三法印the three dharma seals.........................................................................13諸行無常impermanence.......................................................................................15諸受皆苦suffering................................................................................................17諸法無我no-self...................................................................................................20緣起法the law of dependent origination......................................................21四圣諦——若集滅道 the four noble truths —suffering,desire, extinction, and the path........28八正道the eightfold noble path.......................................................................34佛語錄words of the buddha...............................................................................39一切因緣生nothing but dependent origination............................................47一切皆無常impermanence..................................................................................55心是大幻師the mind is a magician..................................................................62當下即佛the moment to buddha......................................................................74佛教的宗旨buddhist tenet.................................................................................80離相曰空formless and emptiness.....................................................................86涅槃是畢竟空emptiness and nirvana.............................................................94學佛的目的the purpose of learning buddha..................................................99跋：佛教圣典就是東方圣經postscript:buddhist sacred scriptures—the eastern bible..............105經集sutta–nipata....................................107序：漫畫《經集》..........................................108蛇品the snake.....................................................................................................111犀牛角經the rhinoceros-horn.........................................................................118仁慈經loving-kindness....................................................................................139勝經victory..........................................................................................................142牟尼經muni sutra (the sage)...........................................................................146寶經the jewel......................................................................................................154羞恥經modesty...................................................................................................162法行經the righteous life.................................................................................165婆羅門法經brahmanical lore..........................................................................168船經the boat.......................................................................................................179戒行經precepts....................................................................................................181起來經the arousal.............................................................................................184羅睺羅經rahula.................................................................................................186正確游行經proper wandering.........................................................................189箭經the barb.......................................................................................................197愛欲八頌經the chapter of eights - sensual-pleasures................................203洞窟八頌經the chapter of eights – the cave...............................................205邪惡八頌經the chapter of eights - evil........................................................209純潔八頌經the chapter of eights – the purified..........................................213至高八頌經the chapter of eights – the highest..........................................217衰老經old age....................................................................................................221提舍彌勒經tissa metteyya..............................................................................225波修羅經pasura..................................................................................................229毀滅以前經before the dissolution..................................................................234爭論經quarrels and disputes..........................................................................239舍利弗經sariputta.............................................................................................246佛遺教經sutraon the buddha’s bequeathed teaching.............................254八大人覺經theeight great awakenings sutra...................................296**覺知the first awakening.........................................................................297第二覺知the second awakening.....................................................................298第三覺知the third awakening........................................................................299第四覺知the fourth awakening......................................................................300第五覺知the fifth awakening.........................................................................301第六覺知the sixth awakening........................................................................302第七覺知the seventh awakening....................................................................303第八覺知the eighth awakening......................................................................304八大人覺經 theeight great awakenings sutra............................................305