Articles New Buddhist Sanskrit Texts from Central Asia: An Unknown fragment of the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra 7-16 Buddhist Hybrid English: Some Notes on Philology and Hermeneutics for Buddhologists 17-32 Nonorigination and Nirvāṇa in the Early Tathāgatagarbha Literature 33-43 Multiple Dimensions of Impermanence in Dōgen's "Genjōkōan" 44-62 The Autobiography of a 20th-Century Rnying-ma-pa lama 63-75 Metapsychology of the Abhidharma 76-88
Short Papers The Buddhist "Prodigal Son": A Story of Misperceptions 91-98
Book Reviews Lustful Maidens and Ascetic Kings. Buddhist and Hindu Stories of Life (C. Amore & Larry D. Shinn) 99-101 The Syncretic Religion of Lin Chao-en (Judith A. Berling) 101-102 The Memoirs of a Modern Gnostic, Parts I and II (Edward Conze) 102-105 Buddhist Studies (J. W. de Jong) 106-107 Sources for a History of the bSam yas Debate (G. W. Houston) 107-109 Buddhist Architecture of Western India, c. 250 BC-AD 300 (S. Nagaraju) 109-111 The Thousand Buddhas: Ancient Buddhist Paintings from the Cave-Temples of Tun-huang on the Western Frontier of China (Aurel Stein) 112-114
Presidential Address Tasks Ahead: Presidential Address Given on the Occasion of the Third Conference of The International Association of Buddhist Studies, Winnipeg, Canada, August 1980 115-123