The Doctrine of Awakening
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The Doctrine of Awakening: The Attainment of Self-Mastery According to the Earliest Buddhist Texts is a book by 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).
[edit] 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
[edit] External links
- Review of The Doctrine of Awakening by Richard Smoley in Parabola.
- Publisher's blurb for The Doctrine of Awakening by Inner Traditions
- Discussion on The Doctrine of Awakening's translator: Captain Harold Musson
Works by Julius Evola
