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Preface to the Second Edition | |
Acknowledgments | |
Introduction | |
The Popular Tradition | |
Ideal Action | |
Ritual Occasions, Merit, and the Appropriation of Power | |
Festivals | |
Rites of Passage | |
Buddhism and the State | |
Asoka, the Exemplary Buddhist Ruler | |
Kings and Cosmology | |
The Cosmological Scheme of the Three Worlds | |
The Buddha as Cosmocrator | |
Modern Nationalism and Buddhism | |
Buddhism and Modernization | |
The Changing Role of the Monk | |
Reforming the Tradition | |
The Changing Role of the Laity | |
Women and Buddhism | |
Buddhism and the West | |
Postscript | |
Sigalaka Sutta: Code of Lay Ethics | |
Borobudur | |
Notes | |
Glossary | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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