Politics of Higher Ordination, Buddhist Monastic Identitiy, and Leadership at the Dambulla Temple in Sri Lanka 255-280 Looking for the Vinaya: Monastic Discipline in the Practical Canons of the Theravāda 281-309 Conditioned Arising Evolves: Variation and Change in Textual Accounts of the Paṭicca-samuppāda Doctrine 311-342 A Search for Mahāyāna in Sri Lanka 343-357 Marginal Notes on a Study of Buddhism, Economy and Society in China 359-396 Introduction 397-399 Buddhist Studies in Germany and Austria 1971-1996. With a contribution on East Asian Buddhism by Michael Friedrich 401-456 Coming of age: Buddhist Studies in the United States from 1972 to 1997 457-483