Hodgson's Blind Alley? On the So-called Schools of Nepalese Buddhism 7-19 Truth, Contradiction and Harmony in Medieval Japan: Emperor Hanazono (1297-1348) and Buddhism 21-63 The Categories of T'i, Hsiang, and Yung: Evidence that Paramārtha Composed the Awakening of Faith 65-92 Asaṅga's Understanding of Mādhyamika: Notes on the Shung-chung-lun 93-107 Mahāyāna Vratas in Newar Buddhism 109-138 The Kathāvatthu Niyāma Debates 139-146 A Verse from the Bhadracarīpraṇidhāna in a 10th Century Inscription found at Nālandā 149-157 A Note on the Opening Formula of Buddhist Sūtras 158-163 Die Frau im frühen Buddhismus (Renate Pitzer-Reyl) 165-170 Ālayavijñāna: On the Origin and the Early Development of a Central Concept of Yogācāra Philosophy (Lambert Schmithausen) 170-177