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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements xvi
Chronological table of reprinted articles and xix
chapters
General introduction xxix
La construction et le culte des stupa 1 (53)
d'apres les Vinayapitaka
Andre Bareau
Asoka and Buddhism --- a re-examination 54 (10)
A.L. Basham
The date of the Buddha reconsidered 64 (8)
Heinz Bechert
On the very idea of the Pali Canon 72 (24)
Steven Collins
Pali oral literature 96 (9)
L.S. Cousins
The dating of the historical Buddha: a 105 (8)
review article
L.S. Cousins
Recovering the Buddha's message 113 (16)
R.F. Gombrich
The Buddha's Book of Genesis? 129 (18)
Richard Gombrich
Assisting the dead by venerating the 147 (22)
living: merit transfer in the early
Buddhist tradition
John C. Holt
Playing with fire: the prafityasamutpada 169 (19)
from the perspective of Vedic thought
Joanna Jurewicz
The assessment of textual authenticity in 188 (11)
Buddhism
Etienne Lamotte
The assessment of textual interpretation in 199 (15)
Buddhism
Etienne Lamotte
Religious suicide in early Buddhism 214 (10)
Etienne Lamotte
A review of scholarship on the Buddhist 224 (20)
Councils
Charles S. Prebish
Theories concerning the Skandhaka: an 244 (13)
appraisal
Charles S. Prebish
The Pratimoksa puzzle: fact versus fantasy 257 (15)
Charles S. Prebish
Nuns, laywomen, donors, goddesses: female 272
roles in early Indian Buddhism
Peter Skilling
Acknowledgements vii
Theravada Buddhist sangha: some general 1 (22)
observations on historical and political
factors in its development
Heinz Bechert
Notes on the formation of Buddhist sects 23 (11)
and the origins of Mahayana
Heinz Bechert
Buddhist jhana: its nature and attainment 34 (18)
according to the Pali sources
L.S. Cousins
The `five points' and the origins of the 52 (32)
Buddhist schools
L.S. Cousins
Person and self 84 (18)
L.S. Cousins
Cosmology and meditation: from the 102 (34)
Agganna-Sutta to the Mahayana
Rupert Gethin
Kindness and compassion as a means to 136 (18)
nirvana
R.F. Gombrich
Concentration or insight: the problematic 154 (17)
of Theravada Buddhist meditation theory
Paul Griffiths
Councils as ideas and events in the 171 (15)
Theravada
Charles Hallisey
Saiksa-dharmas revisited: further 186 (13)
considerations of Mahasamghika origins
Charles S. Prebish
Mahasamghika origins: the beginnings of 199 (30)
Buddhist sectarianism
Jan Nattier
Charles S. Prebish
The several bodies of the Buddha: 229 (13)
reflections on a neglected aspect of
Theravada tradition
Frank E. Reynolds
On the problem of the relation of spiritual 242 (13)
practice and philosophical theory in
Buddhism
Lambert Schmithausen
Buddhist Modernism and the rhetoric of 255 (45)
meditative experience
Robert H. Sharf
The transforming gift: an analysis of 300
devotional acts of offering in Buddhist
Avadana literature
John Strong
Acknowledgements vii
Sakiyabhikkhu/Sakyabhikkhu/Sakyabhiksu: a 1 (25)
mistaken link to the Mahayana?
L.S. Cousins
A preliminary study on meditation and the 26 (48)
beginnings of Mahayana Buddhism
Florin Deleanu
How the Mahayana began 74 (10)
R. Gombrich
Buddhanusmrti in the 84 (24)
Pratyutpannabuddhasammukhavasthitasamadhi-su
tra
Paul M. Harrison
Who gets to ride in the Great Vehicle? 108 (18)
Self-image and identity among the followers
of early Mahayana
Paul Harrison
Is the Dharma-kaya the real ``phantom 126 (38)
body'' of the Buddha?
Paul Harrison
Searching for the origins of the Mahayana: 164 (17)
what are we looking for?
Paul Harrison
The rise of Mahayana Buddhism and its 181 (46)
relationship to the worship of stupas
Akira Hirakawa
Manjusri 227 (75)
Etienne Lamotte
The oldest Mahayana sutra: its significance 302 (10)
for the study of Buddhist development
Lewis R. Lancaster
Inspired speech in early Mahayana Buddhism 312 (17)
Graeme Macqueen
Changing the female body: wise women and 329 (39)
the Bodhisattva career in some
Maharatnakutasutras
Nancy Schuster
What, if anything, is Mahayana Buddhism? 368
Problems of definitions and classifications
Jonathan A. Silk
Acknowledgements vii
The notion of svabhava in the thought of 1 (15)
Candrakirti
William L. Ames
Buddhapalita's exposition of the Madhyamika 16 (36)
William L. Ames
The Patthana and the development of the 52 (19)
Theravadin Abhidhamma
L.S. Cousins
Nibbana and Abhidhamma 71 (11)
L.S. Cousins
On the possibility of a nonexistent object 82 (45)
of perceptual consciousness: Sarvastivadin
and Darstantika theories
Collett Cox
Bhavaviveka and the early Madhyamika 127 (16)
theories of language
Malcolm D. Eckel
The five khandhas: their treatment in the 143 (16)
Nikayas and early Abhidhamma
Rupert Gethin
Bhavanga and rebirth according to the 159 (23)
Abhidhamma
Rupert Gethin
Proto-Madhyamika in the Pali canon 182 (31)
Luis O. Gomez
The uses of the four positions of the 213 (65)
catuskoti and the problem of the
description of reality in Mahayana Buddhism
D. Seyfort Ruegg
The Madhyamaka critique of epistemology -- I 278 (24)
Mark Siderits
The Madhyamaka critique of epistemology -- 302 (33)
II
Mark Siderits
On the Abhidharma ontology 335
Paul M. Williams
Acknowledgements vii
Once again on Dharmakirti's deviation from 1 (16)
Dignaga on pratyaksabhasa
Eli Franco
The realm of enlightenment in 17 (19)
Vijnaptimatrata: the formulation of the
``Four Kinds of Pure Dharmas''
Noriaki Hakamaya
John Keenan
Realism and the philosophy of 36 (29)
consciousness-only
Hattori Masaaki
Dinnaga's views on reasoning (svarthanumana) 65 (51)
Richard P. Hayes
On the theory of intrinsic determination of 116 (4)
universal concomitance in Buddhist logic
Yuichi Kajiyama
Controversy between the sakara- and 120 (9)
nirakara-vadins of the Yogacara school --
some materials
Yuichi Kajiyama
Three kinds of affirmation and two kinds of 129 (14)
negation in Buddhist philosophy
Yuichi Kajiyama
Original purity and the focus of early 143 (10)
Yogacara
John P. Keenan
The meaning of ``mind-only'' (wei-hsin): an 153 (20)
analysis of a sinitic Mahayana phenomenon
Whalen Lai
Sinitic speculations on Buddha-nature: the 173 (17)
Nirvana school (420--589)
Whalen Lai
The doctrine of the Buddha-nature in the 190 (25)
Mahayana Mahaparinirvana-sutra
Ming-Wood Liu
La philosophie bouddhique idealiste 215 (44)
Jacques May
The spiritual place of the epistemological 259 (13)
tradition in Buddhism
E. Steinkellner
On sapaksa 272
Tom J.F. Tillemans
Acknowledgements vii
Reflections on the Mahesvara subjugation 1 (31)
myth: Indic materials, Sa-skya-pa
apologetics, and the birth of Heruka
Ronald M. Davidson
Tibetan scholastic education and the role 32 (26)
of soteriology
Georges Dreyfus
Problems of language in Buddhist Tantra 58 (17)
George R. Elder
On the history and psychology of the 75 (72)
'das-log
Lawrence Epstein
Ambiguous sexuality: imagery and 147 (15)
interpretation in Tantric Buddhism
Roger R. Jackson
On the concept of sahaja in Indian Buddhist 162 (47)
Tantric literature
Per Kvaerne
The study of Bon in the West: past, 209 (13)
present, and future
Per Kvaerne
A modern Newar guide for Vajrayana 222 (43)
life-cycle rites: the Nepal Jana Jivan
Kriya Paddhati
Todd T. Lewis
The unique features of Newar Buddhism 265 (43)
John K. Locke.
Seeing Chen-yen Buddhism: traditional 308 (26)
scholarship and the Vajrayana in China
Charles D. Orzech
True words, silence, and the adamantine 334 (29)
dance: on Japanese Mikkyo and the formation
of the Shingon discourse
Fabio Rambelli
The Jo-nan-pas, a school of Buddhist 363 (29)
ontologists according to the Grub mtha' sel
gyi me lon
D.S. Ruegg
Vajrayana: origin and function 392 (17)
Alexis Sanderson
Sakyamuni's enlightenment according to the 409 (9)
Yoga Tantra
Tadeusz Skorupski
A critical Tantrism 418
Shinichi Tsuda
Acknowledgements vii
The female renunciants of Sri Lanka: the 1 (19)
Dasasilamattawa
Lowell W. Bloss
``Merit transference'' in Sinhalese 20 (14)
Buddhism: a case study of the interaction
between doctrine and practice
Richard Gombrich
Narrative, sub-ethics, and the moral life: 34 (20)
some evidence from Theravada Buddhism
Charles Hallisey
Anne Hansen
Buddhism and law: the view from Mandalay 54 (39)
Andrew Huxley
The Great Tradition and the Little in the 93 (18)
perspective of Sinhalese Buddhism
Gananath Obeyesekere
Dhamma in dispute: the interactions of 111 (18)
religion and law in Thailand
Frank E. Reynolds
The 32 myos in the medieval Mon kingdom 129 (20)
H.L. Shorto
Buddhist law according to the 149 (32)
Theravada-Vinaya: a survey of theory and
practice
Oskar Von Hinuber
Buddhist law according to the 181
Theravada-Vinaya (II): some additions and
corrections
Oskar Von Hinuber
Acknowledgements vii
Did I-ching go to India? Problems in using 1 (11)
I-ching as a source on South Asian Buddhism
T.H. Barrett
Stupa, sutra and sarira in China, 12 (44)
c.656--706 CE
T.H. Barrett
The life of Shinran Shonin: the journey to 56 (50)
self-acceptance
Alfred Bloom
Cliches canoniques bouddhiques dans les 106 (11)
legendes sur les debuts du bouddhisme au
Japon
Hubert Durt
Two Interpretations of human-flesh 117 (20)
offering: misdeed or supreme sacrifice
Hubert Durt
Flying mountains and walkers of emptiness: 137 (24)
toward a definition of sacred space in
Japanese religions
Allan G. Grapard
The place of the sudden teaching within the 161 (23)
Hua-yen tradition: an investigation of the
process of doctrinal change
Peter N. Gregory
On the concept of the hijiri (holy man) 184 (52)
Ichiro Hori
Buddhist self-immolation in medieval China 236 (23)
Yun-Hua Jan
The development of the kenmitsu system as 259 (32)
Japan's medieval orthodoxy
Toshio Kuroda
The dragon girl and the abbess of Mo-shan: 291 (14)
gender and status in the Ch'an Buddhist
tradition
Miriam L. Levering
Historical and historiographical issues in 305 (32)
the study of pre-modern Japanese religions
Neil McMullin
The idolization of enlightenment: on the 337 (30)
mummification of Ch'an masters in medieval
China
Robert H. Sharf
Buddhist influence on early Taoism: a 367 (53)
survey of scriptural evidence
Erik Zurcher
Index 420
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