John Powers is Professor of Asian Studies in the School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. He is the author of fourteen books and more than seventy articles and book chapters. His publications include A Bull of a Man: Images of Masculinity, Sex, and the Body in Indian Buddhism (2015) and Historical Dictionary of Tibet (with David Templeman, 2012).

List of Illustrations. List of Contributors. Buddhism Chronology. Introduction - John Powers. Part I: The Historical and Geo-political Buddhist World. 1. Buddhas and Buddhisms - John Powers. 2. Indian Buddhist Narratives about the Buddha, His Community, and His Teachings - Karen Lang. 3. Buddhism in Southeast Asia - Craig J. Reynolds. 4. Sinitic Buddhism in China, Korea, and Japan - Scott Pacey. 5. Himalayan Buddhism (Newars and Other Tibeto-Burman peoples) - Todd Lewis. 6. Time Travel in Tibet: Tantra, Terma and Tulku - Mark Stevenson. 7. The Emergence of American Buddhism - Charles Prebish. Part II: The Religio-Philosophical Buddhist World. 8. Abhidharma - Joseph Walser. 9. Ethics - Daniel Cozort. 10. Orthodoxy, Canon, and Heresy - Jamie Hubbard. 11. Language - Mario D'Amato. 12. The Pure Land in the History of Chinese Buddhism - Charles B. Jones. 13. Buddha-Nature and the Logic of Pantheism - Douglas Duckworth. 14. Body - David Gardiner. 15. Buddhist Art for the World - Marylin Rhie. 16. Death and Afterlife - Paul Hackett. 17. Buddhism and Modernity - Jay L. Garfield. Part III: The Buddhist Social World. 18. Buddhism and Gender - Karma Lekshe Tsomo. 19. A History of Buddhist Ritual - Todd Lewis. 20. Magic and Buddhism - Craig J. Reynolds. 21. Merit - Douglas Osto. 22. Buddhist Sectarianism - David B. Gray. 23. Community - D. Mitra Barua and Mavis Fenn. 24. The Buddhist Sangha: Buddhism's Monastic and Lay Communities - Charles S. Prebish. 25. Contemporary Chinese Buddhist Practice - Scott Pacey. 26. Buddhist Environmental Imaginaries - Susan M. Darlington. 27. Renouncing the World, Renouncing the Family - Geoff Childs. 28. Toward a Buddhist Theory of the 'Just War' - Damien Keown. Part IV: Biographies. 29. The Buddha - Richard Hayes. 30. N¿g¿rjuna - Joseph Walser. 31.Vasubandhu: Constructing a Buddhist Mainstream - Jonathan Gold. 32. Dign¿ga and Dharmak¿rti on Perception and Self-Awareness - Chrisna Coseru. 33. Wonhyo - Charles Muller. 34. D¿gen - Steven Heine. 35. Milarepa - Ruth Gamble. 6. Tsongkhapa - John Powers. 37. Nichiren - Daniel S. Métraux. 38. Thich Nhat Hanh - John Powers. 39. Master Yinshun - Bhikkhu Bodhi. 40. Tenzin Gyatso, The Fourteenth Dalai Lama - John Powers. 41. Buddhad¿sa Bhikkhu - Royce Wiles. General Index