| Princeton Readings in Religions | |
| 1 | A Hymn of Praise to the Buddha's Good Qualities |
| 2 | Consecrating the Buddha |
| 3 | Sutra on the Merit of Bathing the Buddha |
| 4 | Reading Others' Minds |
| 5 | The Prayer of the Original Buddha |
| 6 | Myoe's Letter to the Island |
| 7 | The Tathagatagarbha Sutra |
| 8 | The Whole Universe as a Sutra |
| 9 | Gotami's Story |
| 10 | The Great Bliss Queen |
| 11 | Story of Simhala, the Caravan Leader |
| 12 | A Prayer for the Long Life of the Dalai Lama |
| 13 | Chinese Women Pilgrims' Songs Glorifying Guanyin |
| 14 | A Mahayana Liturgy |
| 15 | A Discussion of Seated Zen |
| 16 | The Way to Meditation |
| 17 | Buddhism and the State in Early Japan |
| 18 | Original Enlightenment Thought in the Nichiren Tradition |
| 19 | The Matsumoto Debate |
| 20 | A Prophecy of the Death of the Dharma |
| 21 | The Book of Resolving Doubts Concerning the Semblance Dharma |
| 22 | A Heretical Chinese Buddhist Text |
| 23 | Eschatology in the Wheel of Time Tantra |
| 24 | Atisa's A Lamp for the Path to Awakening |
| 25 | The Advice to Layman Tundila |
| 26 | The Legend of the Iron Stupa |
| 27 | Two Tantric Meditations: Visualizing the Deity |
| 28 | The Story of the Horn Blowing |
| 29 | A Summary of the Seven Books of the Abhidhamma |
| 30 | On Becoming a Buddhist Wizard |
| 31 | Pure Land Buddhist Worship and Meditation in China |
| 32 | Aryadeva and Candrakirti on Self and Selfishness |
| 33 | A Modern Sermon on Merit Making |
| 34 | Saramati's Entering into the Great Vehicle |
| 35 | Auspicious Things |
| 36 | Tales of the Lotus Sutra |
| 37 | Daily Life in the Assembly |
| 38 | Deaths, Funerals, and the Division of Property in a Monastic Code |
| 39 | A Rite for Restoring the Bodhisattva and Tantric Vows |
| 40 | Awakening Stories of Zen Buddhist Women |
| 41 | The Chinese Life of Nagarjuna |
| 42 | Atisa's Journey to Sumatra |
| 43 | Bimba's Lament |
| 44 | Hagiographies of the Korean Monk Wonhyo |
| 45 | The Illustrated Biography of Ippen |
| 46 | Account of the Buddhist Thaumaturge Baozhi |
| 47 | Buddhist Chaplains in the Field of Battle |
| 48 | Death-Bed Testimonials of the Pure Land Faithful |
| Index |
These selections consistently reveal new vistas on the Buddhist landscape or illuminate old views from new angles. -- John S. Strong, Bates College
Donald S. Lopez, Jr., is Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan.
Buddhism in Practice ... constitute[s] a benchmark of where Buddhist studies has been, and where it is going. By endeavoring to break the circularity of the knowledge process, by which we recognize as 'Buddhist' only what we already think of as Buddhist, Lopez has opened a new course for a self-reflexive Buddhology. The Journal of Asian Studies
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