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| Preface | |
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| Technical Note | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Indian Background | |
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| Buddhism in India | |
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| The Buddha | |
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| The Buddha's Life and Lives | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Some Important Buddhist Doctrines | |
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| Cyclic Existence | |
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| Appearance and Reality | |
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| Meditation | |
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| The Role of Meditation in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism | |
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| Stabilizing and Analytical Meditation | |
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| The Five Buddhist Paths | |
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| Mahayana | |
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| Origins | |
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| Mahayana Doctrines | |
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| The Bodhisattva Path | |
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| Tibetan History and Culture | |
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| Tibetan Religious History | |
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| Tibet: Geography and Environment | |
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| The Early History of Tibet | |
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| The Period of the Religious Kings | |
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| The Second Dissemination of Buddhism | |
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| Mongol Influence and Sakya Supremacy | |
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| The Gelukpa Ascent to Power | |
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| The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | |
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| The Twentieth Century | |
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| Foreign Conflicts | |
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| The Fourteenth Dalai Lama | |
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| The Interregnum Period | |
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| The Fourteenth Dalai Lama Assumes Power | |
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| The Chinese Occupation of Tibet | |
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| Religious Festivals and Holy Days | |
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| Monlam | |
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| The Butter-Sculpture Festival of Kumbum | |
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| Sacred Dance | |
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| Other Religious Festivals | |
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| Common Elements in Tibetan Religious Ceremonies | |
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| Geography and Architecture | |
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| The Religious Environment | |
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| Construction of Religious Structures | |
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| Stupas | |
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| Tibetan Buddhist Doctrines and Practices | |
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| Tantra | |
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| The Place of the Tantras in Buddhist Literature | |
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| Tantra as a Branch of Mahayana | |
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| Tantric Symbols | |
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| Entering Tantric Practice | |
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| The Four Classes of Tantra | |
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| The Preliminary Practices | |
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| The Fourteen Root Downfalls | |
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| Death and Dying in Tibetan Buddhism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Death Meditation: Exoteric and Esoteric Traditions | |
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| The Bardo Process | |
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| Tibetan Rituals of Death and Dying | |
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| The Orders of Tibetan Buddhism | |
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| The Four Orders | |
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| The Nonsectarian Movement | |
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| Nyingma | |
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| History and Doctrines | |
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| The Nine Vehicles | |
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| Terma: Hidden Treasures | |
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| Distinctive Practices: Dzogchen | |
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| Kagyu | |
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| History and Doctrines | |
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| Meditation Practices | |
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| Sakya | |
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| Origins of the Sakya Tradition | |
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| The Development and Dissemination of Sakya Doctrines and Practices | |
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| Sakya Becomes a Political Force | |
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| The Sakya Monastic Order | |
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| Distinctive Practices: "Path and Result" | |
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| Geluk | |
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| History of the Lineage | |
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| The Gelukpa Monastic System | |
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| Distinctive Practices: The Stages of the Path | |
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| Bon: A Heterodox System | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Bon Teachings and Practices | |
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| Chronology of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism | |
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| Lexicon of Buddhist Terms | |
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| English-Tibetan-Sanskrit Glossary | |
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| Select Bibliography | |
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| Indexes | |
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| Technical Terms | |
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| Proper Names | |
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| Titles of Works Mentioned | |
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| Locations | |