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| Boxes, Figures, and Maps | |
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| Acknowledgments: Pronunciation Guide | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Life of Gautama Buddha | |
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| The Early Life of Siddhartha Gautama | |
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| Birth | |
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| Youth | |
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| The Four Sights | |
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| The Great Renunciation | |
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| Spiritual Teachers | |
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| Asceticism | |
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| The Awakening of the Buddha | |
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| Enlightenment | |
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| Nirvana | |
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| The Mission of the Buddha | |
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| The Three Refuges | |
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| Important Conversions | |
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| Monasticism | |
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| Social Concern | |
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| Women''s Ordination | |
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| The Rebellion of Devadatta | |
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| The Last Days of Gautama Buddha | |
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| The Teachings Of The Buddha | |
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| The Three Characteristics | |
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| Impermanence: Dissatisfactoriness: No-Self | |
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| The Five Aggregates | |
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| Dependent ArisingKarma and Rebirth | |
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| The Four Noble Truths | |
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| The Middle Way | |
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| The First Noble Truth | |
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| Life Is Duhkha | |
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| The Second Noble Truth | |
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| The Cause of Duhkha | |
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| The Third Noble Truth | |
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| The Cessation of Duhkha | |
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| The Fourth Noble Truth | |
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| The Eightfold Path to the Cessation of Duhkha | |
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| Awakening | |
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| The Eightfold Path | |
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| Right Understanding | |
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| Right Thought | |
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| Right Speech | |
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| Right Action | |
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| Right Livelihood | |
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| Right Effort | |
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| Right Mindfulness | |
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| Right Concentration | |
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| Nirvana | |
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| The Way of the Elders | |
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| The Three Baskets | |
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| The Sutra Pitaka | |
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| The Vinaya Pitaka | |
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| The Abhidharma Pitaka | |
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| The Second and Third Councils | |
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| King AsokaTheravada''s Path of Purification | |
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| Morality | |
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| Concentration | |
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| Wisdom | |
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| Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia | |
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| Sri Lanka | |
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| Southeast Asia | |
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| Theravada Monastic and Lay Experience | |
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| The Great Vehicle | |
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| The Mahayana Sutras | |
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| The Perfection of Wisdom Sutras | |
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| The Vimalakirti Sutra | |
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| The Lankavatara Sutra | |
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| The Lotus Sutra | |
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| Land of Bliss Sutras | |
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| The Great Journey of the Bodhisattva | |
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| The Six Perfections | |
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| The Ten Stages | |
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| Celestial Bodhisattvas and Buddhas | |
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| Celestial Bodhisattvas | |
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| The Three Bodies of the Buddha | |
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| The Indian Experience of Buddhism | |
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| The Abhidharma Schools | |
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| The Mahayana Schools | |
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| The Madhyamika School | |
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| The Tathagata-garbha Literature | |
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| The Yogacara School: Logic, Tantra, and the Extinction of Buddhism in India | |
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| The Tibetan Experience of Buddhism | |
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| The First Dissemination of Buddhism in Tibet | |
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| The Second Dissemination of Buddhism in Tibet | |
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| The Geluk School and the Dalai Lama | |
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| The Tantric Experience | |
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| Preliminary Practices | |
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| Mandalas, Mantras, and Mudras | |
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| Deity Yoga: Four Types of Tantric Practice | |
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| Schools of Tibetan Buddhism | |
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| Distinctive Practices | |
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| The Nyingma School | |
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| The Sakya School | |
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| The Kagyu School | |
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| The Geluk School | |
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| Recent Events in Tibet | |
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| The Chinese Experience of Buddhism | |
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| Translation and Inculturation | |
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| New Translations and Scholarship | |
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| Persecution and Reform | |
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| The Chinese Schools I | |
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| Laying the Foundation of the Chinese Experience | |
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| The Chu-she School | |
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| The Ch''eng-shih School | |
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| The Lu School | |
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| The Chen-yen School | |
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| The San-lun School | |
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| The Fa-hsiang School | |
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| The Chinese Schools II | |
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| Defining the Chinese Experience | |
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| The T''ien-t''ai School | |
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| The Hua-yen School | |
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| The Ch''an School | |
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| The Ching-t''u School | |
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| Persecution and DeclineLater Developments | |
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| The Korean Experience of Buddhism | |
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| The Advent of Buddhism during the Three Kingdoms Period | |
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| Buddhism durin ghte Unified Silla Dynasty: Innovation and Scholarship | |
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| Uisang: Wonhyo | |
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| The Five Buddhist Schools | |
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| Buddhism during the Koryo Dynasty | |
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| Searching for UnityUich''on | |
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| Chinul | |
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| The Korean Tripitaka | |
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| Repression during the Choson Dynasty | |
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| The Japanese Occupation and Recent Developments | |
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| The Japanese Experience of Buddhism | |
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| Prince Shotoku | |
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| The Nara Period (710-784) | |
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| The Six Schools | |
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| The Kusha School | |
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| The Jojitsu School | |
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| The Ritsu School | |
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| The Sanron School | |
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| The Hosso School | |
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| The Kegon School | |
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| The Heian Period (794-1185) | |
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| The Tendai and Shingon Schools | |
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| The Tendai School | |
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| The Shingon School | |
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| The Kamakura Period (1185-1333) | |
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| Pure Land, Zen, and Nichiren | |
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| Pure Land Buddhism | |
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| Zen Buddhism | |
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| Nichiren Buddhism | |
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| The Muromachi Period (1338-1573) | |
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| Zen and Japanese Culture | |
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| The Tokugawa Period (1603-1868) | |
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| Struggle and Reform | |
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| The Meiji Period (1868-1912) and Recent Developments | |
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| Modern Buddhism in Asia | |
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| New Buddhist Movements in AsiaIndia | |
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| Sri Lanka | |
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| Thailand | |
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| Cambodia | |
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| Vietnam | |
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| Tibet | |
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| China | |
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| Korea | |
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| Japan | |
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| Women''s Experiences of Buddhism in Modern Asia | |
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| Buddhism in the West | |
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| Major Buddhist Traditions in the West | |
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| Theravada Buddhism: Vietnamese Buddhism | |