Ch. 1. Temples and Monastic Complexes (Japan)
View of Temple Life and Practice / James Bissett Pratt
Ch. 2. Image Consecrations (Thailand)
Creating and Disseminating the Sacred / Donald K. Swearer
Ch. 3. State Rituals and Ceremonies (Myanma)
Tooth Relic and the Legitimation of Power / Juliane Schober
Ch. 4. Village Rituals and Ceremonies (Thailand)
Bun Phraawes / S. J. Tambiah
Ch. 5. Ordination of Monks and Novices (Korea)
Ordination in the Chogye Order / Robert E. Buswell
Ch. 6. Female Renunciants (Myanma[r]/Burma)
Theravadin Religious Women / Hiroko Kawanami
Ch. 7. Meditation (Japan)
Morning Star Meditation / Taiko Yamasaki
Ch. 8. Monastic Quest: A Biographical Example (Tibet)
Biography of a Nun / Hanna Havnevik
Ch. 9. Monastic Funerals (Thailand)
Cremation of a Senior Monk / Charles F. Keyes
Ch. 10. Lay Identity and Participation (China)
Lay Praxis in a Mahayana Context / Holmes Welch
Ch. 11. Cosmology and Law (Tibet)
Buddhist Secular Law: Doctrines in context / Rebecca Redwood French
Ch. 12. Cosmology and Healing (Sri Lanka)
Yaktovil: The Role of the Budda and Dhamma / Jason A. Carbine
Ch. 13. Devotional Rituals: Recent Innovations (Sri Lanka)
new Theravadin Liturgy / Richard Gombrich
Ch. 14. Death and Beyond (Japan)
Memorializing One's Mizuko / William R. LaFleur
Transmitting the Dharma / Philip Kapleau.
