The Buddhist world

Introduction / John Powers

The historical and geo-political Buddhist world. Buddhas and Buddhisms / John Powers ; Indian Buddhist narratives about the Buddha, his community, and his teachings / Karen C. Lang ; Buddhism in Southeast Asia / Craig J. Reynolds ; Sinitic Buddhism in China, Korea, and Japan / Scott Pacey ; Himalayan Buddhism: traditions among the Newars and other Tibeto-Burman peoples / Todd Lewis ; Time travel in Tibet: tantra, terma and tulku / Mark Stevenson ; The emergence of American Buddhism / Charles S. Prebish

The religio-philosophical Buddhist world. Abhidharma / Joseph Walser ; Ethics / Daniel Cozort ; Orthodoxy, canon, and heresy / Jamie Hubbard ; Language / Mario D'Amato ; The pure land in the history of Chinese Buddhism / Charles B. Jones ; Buddha-nature and the logic of pantheism / Douglas Duckworth ; Body / David Gardiner ; Buddhist art for the world / Marylin M. Rhie ; Death and afterlife / Paul Hackett ; Buddhism and modernity / Jay L. Garfield

The Buddhist social world. Buddhism and gender / Karma Lekshe Tsomo ; A history of Buddhist ritual / Todd Lewis ; Magic and Buddhism / Craig J. Reynolds ; Merit / Douglas Osto ; Buddhist sectarianism / David B. Gray ; Community / D. Mitra Barua and Mavis Fenn ; The Buddhist Sangha: Buddhism's monastic and lay communities / Charles S. Prebish ; Contemporary Chinese Buddhist practice / Scott Pacey ; Buddhist environmental imaginaries / Susan M. Darlington ; Renouncing the world, renouncing the family / Geoff Childs ; Toward a Buddhist theory of the "just war" / Damien Keown

Biographies. The Buddha / Richard P. Hayes ; Nāgārjuna / Joseph Walser ; Vasubandhu: constructing a Buddhist mainstream / Jonathan C. Gold ; Dignāga and Dharmakīrti on perception and self-awareness / Chrisna Coseru ; Wonhyo / A. Charles Muller ; Dōgen / Steven Heine ; Milarepa / Ruth Gamble ; Tsongkhapa / John Powers ; Nichiren / Daniel S. Métraux ; Thich Nhat Hanh / John Powers ; Master Yinshun / Bhikkhu Bodhi ; Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama / John Powers ; Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu / Royce Wiles.