Introduction -- The ascetic ideal -- The councils: early schools -- Early doctrine: Yoga -- Causation: Note on the wheel of becoming -- The background of Buddhism -- Brahminism and the Upanishads -- Dogma and philosophy: The soul -- Karma -- Release and Nirvana -- Buddha -- Developments of Abhidhamma -- Development of the doctrine: The Buddhas -- The Lotus of the true doctrine: note on spells -- Popular Bodhisattva doctrine -- The Bodhisattva's career -- The doctrine of the void: Note on the later schools -- The doctrine of consciousness only -- Buddhism and modern thought
