PUBLISHER'S NOTE xi INTRODUCTION The Staff of the Nanzan Institute xiii
Part One: Early Buddhism and Theravāda 1 The Message of Gotama Buddha and Its Earliest Interpretations / G. C. Pande 3 2 Indian Buddhist Meditation / Paul J. Griffiths 34 3 Abhidharma / Sakurabe Hajime 67 4 Theravāda in Southeast Asia / Winston L. King 79 5 Theravāda Lands I. Sri Lanka / Maeda Egaku 93 II. Burma Winston L. King 102 III. Buddhism in Thai Culture / Sunthorn Na-Rangsi 108 IV. Thai Spirituality and Modernization / Sulak Sivaraksa 112 6 Monasticism and Civilization / Robert A. F. Thurman 120
Part Two: Mahāyāna 7 The Sūtras I . Prajñāpāramitā and the Rise of Mahāyāna / Kajiyama Yūichi 137 II. The Vimalakīrti Sūtra / Nagao Gajin 155 III. The Avatamsaka Sūtra / Luis O. Gómez 160 IV. The Lotus Sūtra and the Essence of Mahāyāna / Michael Pye 171 8 Mahāyāna Philosophies I. The Madhyamika Tradition / Tachikawa Musashi 188 II. Yogācāra / John P. Keenan 203 III. Buddhist Logic: The Search for Certainty / Ernst Steinkellner 213 9 The Diamond Vehicle / Alex Wayman 219 10 Pure Land Piety / Roger J. Corless 242
Part Three: China 11 The Three Jewels in China / Whalen Lai 275 12 Philosophical Schools I. San-lun, Tien-Tai, and Hua-yen / Taitetsu Unno 343 II. Yogācāra in China / John P. Keenan 365 13 The Spirituality of Emptiness in Early Chinese Buddhism / Paul L. Swanson 373 14 Tantric Buddhism in China / Paul B. Watt 397
GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS 405 CONTRIBUTORS 411 PHOTOGRAPHIC CREDITS 414 NAME INDEX 415 SUBJECT INDEX 420
