Articles Original Purity and the Focus of Early Yogācāra 7-18 The Dragon Girl and the Abbess of Mo-Shan: Gender and Status in the Ch'an Buddhist Tradition 19-36 The Life and Time of Paramārtha (499-569) 37-69 Studies in Traditional Indian Medicine in the the Pāli Canon: Jīvaka and Āyurveda 70-86
Short Papers Sa skya paṇḍita's Account of the bSam yas Debate: History as Polemic 89-99 The Text on the "Dhāraṇī Stones from Abhayagiriya": A Minor Contribution to the Study of Mahāyāna Literature in Ceylon 100-108 A Report on Buddhism in the People's Republic of China 109-117
Book Reviews and Notices Histoire du Cycle de la Naissance et de la Mort (Yoshiro Imaeda) 118-121 Theravāda Meditation: The Buddhist Transformation (Winston King) 121-124 Chinese Buddhism: Aspects of Interaction and Reinterpretation (W. Pachow) 124-126 Buddhism and Society in Southeast Asia (Donald K. Swearer) 126-127 Tantra in Tibet; Yoga in Tibet (Jeffrey Hopkins) 127-130
Presidential Address Asoka and Buddhism – A Reexamination 131-143
Notes and News A report o the 4th Conference of the IABS, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, U.S.A. August 7-9, 1981 144-152
