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1 VOLUME I BUDDHIST ORIGINS AND THE EARLY HISTORY OF BUDDHISM IN SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA Chronological table of reprinted articles and chapters xvi xix General introduction xxix 1 La construction et le culte des stupa d'apres les Vinayapitaka 1 ANDRE BAREAU 2 Asoka and Buddhism a re-examination 54 A.L. BASHAM 3 The date of the Buddha reconsidered 64 HEINZ BECHERT 4 On the very idea of the Pali Canon 72 STEVEN COLLINS 5 Pali oral literature 96 6 The dating of the historical Buddha: a review article Recovering the Buddha's message 113 R.F. GOMBRICH

2 8 The Buddha's Book of Genesis? 129 RICHARD GOMBRICH 9 Assisting the dead by venerating the living: merit transfer in the early Buddhist tradition 147 JOHN C. HOLT 10 Playing with fire: the prafityasamutpada from the perspective of Vedic thought 169 JOANNA JUREW1CZ 11 The assessment of textual authenticity in Buddhism 188 ETIENNE LAMOTTE 12 The assessment of textual interpretation in Buddhism 199 ETIENNE LAMOTTE 13 Religious suicide in early Buddhism 214 ETIENNE LAMOTTE 14 A review of scholarship on the Buddhist Councils 224 CHARLES S. PREBISH 15 Theories concerning the Skandhaka: an appraisal 244 CHARLES S. PREBISH 16 The Pratimoksa puzzle: fact versus fantasy 257 CHARLES S. PREBISH 17 Nuns, laywomen, donors, goddesses: female roles in early Indian Buddhism 272 PETER SKILL1NG

3 VOLUME II THE EARLY BUDDHIST SCHOOLS AND DOCTRINAL HISTORY; THERAVADA DOCTRINE 18 Theravada Buddhist sangha: some general observations on historical and political factors in its development 1 HEINZ BECHERT 19 Notes on the formation of Buddhist sects and the origins of Mahayana 23 HEINZ BECHERT 20 Buddhist jhana: its nature and attainment according to the Pali sources The'five points'and the origins of the Buddhist schools Person and self Cosmology and meditation: from the Agganna-Sutta to the Mahayana 102 RUPERT GETHIN 24 Kindness and compassion as a means to nirvana 136 R.F. GOMBRICH 25 Concentration or insight: the problematic of Theravada Buddhist meditation theory 154 PAUL GRIFFITHS 26 Councils as ideas and events in the Theravada 171 CHARLES HALLISEY 27 Saiksa-dharmas revisited: further considerations of Mahasamghika origins 186 CHARLES S. PREBISH

4 28 Mahasamghika origins: the beginnings of Buddhist sectarianism 199 JAN NATTIER AND CHARLES S. PREBISH 29 The several bodies of the Buddha: reflections on a neglected aspect of Theravada tradition 229 FRANK E. REYNOLDS 30 On the problem of the relation of spiritual practice and philosophical theory in Buddhism 242 LAMBERT SCHMITHAUSEN 31 Buddhist Modernism and the rhetoric of meditative experience 255 ROBERT H. SHARF 32 The transforming gift: an analysis of devotional acts of offering in Buddhist Avadana literature 300 JOHN STRONG VOLUME III THE ORIGINS AND NATURE OF MAHAYXNA BUDDHISM; SOME MAHA"YXNA RELIGIOUS TOPICS 33 Sakiyabhikkhu/Sakyabhikkhu/Sakyabhiksu: a mistaken link to the Mahayana? 1 34 A preliminary study on meditation and the beginnings of Mahayana Buddhism 26 FLORIN DELEANU 35 How the Mahayana began 74 R. GOMBRICH 36 Buddhanusmrti in the Pratyutpannabuddhasammukhavasthitasamadhi-sutra 84 PAUL M. HARRISON

5 37 Who gets to ride in the Great Vehicle? Self-image and identity among the followers of early Mahayana 108 PAUL HARRISON 38 Is the Dharma-kaya the real "phantom body" of the Buddha? 126 PAUL HARRISON 39 Searching for the origins of the Mahayana: what are we looking for? 164 PAUL HARRISON 40 The rise of Mahayana Buddhism and its relationship to the worship of stiipas 181 AKIRA HIRAKAWA 41 Manjusri 227 ETIENNE LAMOTTE 42 The oldest Mahayana sutra: its significance for the study of Buddhist development 302 LEWIS R. LANCASTER 43 Inspired speech in early Mahayana Buddhism 312 GRAEME MACQUEEN 44 Changing the female body: wise women and the Bodhisattva career in some Maharatnakutasutras 329 NANCY SCHUSTER 45 What, if anything, is Mahayana Buddhism? Problems of definitions and classifications 368 JONATHAN A. SILK VOLUME IV ABHIDHARMA AND MADHYAMAKA 46 The notion of svabhava in the thought of Candrakirti 1 WILLIAM L. AMES

6 47 Buddhapalita's exposition of the Madhyamika 16 WILLIAM L. AMES 48 The Patthana and the development of the Theravadin Abhidhamma Nibbana and Abhidhamma On the possibility of a nonexistent object of perceptual consciousness: Sarvastivadin and Darstantika theories 82 COLLETT COX 51 Bhavaviveka and the early Madhyamika theories of language 127 MALCOLM D. ECKEL 52 The five khandhas: their treatment in the Nikayas and early Abhidhamma 143 RUPERT GETHIN 53 Bhavanga and rebirth according to the Abhidhamma 159 RUPERT GETHIN 54 Proto-Madhyamika in the Pali canon 182 LUIS O. G6MEZ 55 The uses of the four positions of the catuskoti and the problem of the description of reality in Mahayana Buddhism 213 D. SEYFORT RUEGG 56 The Madhyamaka critique of epistemology MARK SIDERITS 57 The Madhyamaka critique of epistemology-ii 302 MARK SIDERITS 58 On the Abhidharma ontology 335 PAUL M. WILLIAMS

7 VOLUME V YOGACARA, THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL TRADITION AND TATHAGATAGARBHA 59 Once again on DharmakTrti's deviation from Dignaga on pratyaksdbhasa 1 ELI FRANCO 60 The realm of enlightenment in Vijnaptimdtratd: the formulation of the "Four Kinds of Pure Dharmas" 17 NORIAKI HAKAMAYA (Translated from the Japanese by John Keenan) 61 Realism and the philosophy of consciousness-only 36 HATTORI MASAAKI 62 Dinnaga's views on reasoning (svdrthdnumdna) 65 RICHARD P. HAYES 63 On the theory of intrinsic determination of universal concomitance in Buddhist logic 116 YUICHl KAJIYAMA 64 Controversy between the sdkdra- and nirdkdra-vddins of the Yogacara school - some materials 120 YUICHl KAJIYAMA 65 Three kinds of affirmation and two kinds of negation in Buddhist philosophy 129 YUICHl KAJIYAMA 66 Original purity and the focus of early Yogacara 143 JOHN P. KEENAN 67 The meaning of "mind-only" (wei-hsin): an analysis of a sinitic Mahayana phenomenon 153 WHALEN LAI 68 Sinitic speculations on Buddha-nature: the Nirvana school ( ) 173 WHALEN LAI

8 69 The doctrine of the Buddha-nature in the Mahayana Mahaparinirvana-sutra 190 MING-WOOD LIU 70 La philosophie bouddhique idealiste 215 JACQUES MAY 71 The spiritual place of the epistemological tradition in Buddhism 259 E. STEINKELLNER 72 On sapaksa 272 TOM J.F. TILLEMANS VOLUME VI TANTRIC BUDDHISM (INCLUDING CHINA AND JAPAN); BUDDHISM IN NEPAL AND TIBET 73 Reflections on the Mahesvara subjugation myth: Indie materials, Sa-skya-pa apologetics, and the birth of Heruka 1 RONALD M. DAVIDSON 74 Tibetan scholastic education and the role of sotenology 32 GEORGES DREYFUS 75 Problems of language in Buddhist Tantra 58 GEORGE R. ELDER 76 On the history and psychology of the 'das-log 75 LAWRENCE EPSTEIN 77 Ambiguous sexuality: imagery and interpretation in Tantric Buddhism 147 ROGER R. JACKSON 78 On the concept of sahaja in Indian Buddhist Tantric literature 162 PER KVAERNE

9 79 The study of Bon in the West: past, present, and future 209 PER KVAERNE 80 A modern Newar guide for Vajrayana life-cycle rites: the Nepal Jana Jivan Kriya Paddhati 111 TODD T. LEWIS 81 The unique features of Newar Buddhism 265 JOHN K. LOCKE, S.J. 82 Seeing Chen-yen Buddhism: traditional scholarship and the Vajrayana in China 308 CHARLES D. ORZECH 83 True words, silence, and the adamantine dance: on Japanese Mikkyo and the formation of the Shingon discourse 334 FABIO RAMBELLI 84 The Jo-nan-pas, a school of Buddhist ontologists according to the Grub mtha' sel gyi me Ion 363 D.S. RUEGG 85 Vajrayana: origin and function 392 ALEXIS SANDERSON 86 Sakyamuni's enlightenment according to the Yoga Tantra 409 TADEUSZ SKORUPSKI 87 A critical Tantrism 418 SHINfCHJ TSUDA VOLUME VII BUDDHISM IN SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA 88 The female renunciants of Sri Lanka: the Dasasilamattawa 1 LOWELL W. BLOSS 89 "Merit transference" in Sinhalese Buddhism: a case study of the interaction between doctrine and practice 20 RICHARD GOMBRICH

10 90 Narrative, sub-ethics, and the moral life: some evidence from Theravada Buddhism 34 CHARLES HALLISEY AND ANNE HANSEN 91 Buddhism and law: the view from Mandalay 54 ANDREW HUXLEY 92 The Great Tradition and the Little in the perspective of Sinhalese Buddhism 93 GANANATH OBEYESEKERE 93 Dhamma in dispute: the interactions of religion and law in Thailand 111 FRANK E. REYNOLDS 94 The 32 myos in the medieval Mon kingdom 129 H.L. SHORTO 95 Buddhist law according to the Theravada- Vinaya: a survey of theory and practice 149 OSKAR VON HINOBER 96 Buddhist law according to the Theravada- Vinaya (II): some additions and corrections 181 OSKAR VON HINUBER VOLUME VIII BUDDHISM IN CHINA, EAST ASIA AND JAPAN 97 Did I-ching go to India? Problems in using I-ching as a source on South Asian Buddhism 1 T.H. BARRETT 98 Stupa, sutra and terira in China, c CE 12 T.H. BARRETT 99 The life of Shinran Shonin: the journey to self-acceptance 56 ALFRED BLOOM

11 100 Cliches canoniques bouddhiques dans les Iegendes sur les debuts du bouddhisme au Japon 106 HUBERT DURT 101 Two Interpretations of human-flesh offering: misdeed or supreme sacrifice 117 HUBERT DURT 102 Flying mountains and walkers of emptiness: toward a definition of sacred space in Japanese religions 137 ALLAN G. GRAPARD 103 The place of the sudden teaching within the Hua-yen tradition: an investigation of the process of doctrinal change 161 PETER N. GREGORY 104 On the concept of the hijiri (holy man) 184 ICHIRO HORI 105 Buddhist self-immolation in medieval China 236 YUN-HUA JAN 106 The development of the kenmitsu system as Japan's medieval orthodoxy 259 TOSHIO KURODA 107 The dragon girl and the abbess of Mo-shan: gender and status in the Ch'an Buddhist tradition 291 MIRIAM L. LEVERING 108 Historical and historiographical issues in the study of pre-modern Japanese religions 305 NEIL McMULLIN 109 The idolization of enlightenment: on the mummification of Ch'an masters in medieval China 337 ROBERT H. SHARF 110 Buddhist influence on early Taoism: a survey of scriptural evidence 367 ERIK ZORCHER Index 420

Grading: 1. Journal (35) 2. Research Paper (25) 3. Oral Final Exam (30) 4. Participation (10) 100 points

Grading: 1. Journal (35) 2. Research Paper (25) 3. Oral Final Exam (30) 4. Participation (10) 100 points Mahāyāna Buddhism Fall 2007 Religious Studies 305 Professor Todd T. Lewis Religious Studies Department, Smith 425 Office Hours: Tu/Thurs 11-12:15 and by appointment Course Description: An advanced course