Rethinking Buddhism: Text, context, contestation

Recommended by: Shailendra Raj Mehta

Content:

BUDDHISM IN CONTE,XT
1. Touching the Earth: Buddhist Reflections on
the Ecological Crisis
David R. LoSt
2. Monasteries, Monasticism, and Patronage in
Ancient India: Mawasa, a Recently Documented
Hilltop Buddhist Compiex in the Sanchi Area
of Madhya Pradesh
Julia Shazu
3. Contextualizing Jatafta Narratives: Symmetry and
.Consonance in Literary and Visual Traditions
Anand Singh
4. Placing Buddhism in Tamil Reiigious Historv:
Institutions and Grorvth (c.Fifth-Tenth Centuries cE)
R. Mahalakshmi
5. Aesthetics in Buddhist Canonical Narratives:
Paradigms and Elucidations
Wn. Mirisru aththe Wimalangana
6. Locating the Hospital in Buddhist N{edical Tradition
Krishna Kumar Mandal
7. Buddhist Meditation, Flow, and Ritual
johannes Bronkhorst

CONTESTATION AND ACCOMMODATION
B. Arahants Tested and Contested: The problem of
Arahant's Self-cognition and Others, Cognition
of Arahants in Theravdda Tradition
Asanga Tilakaratne
9. On the Loss of Legal Documents and Business
Records from Indian Buddhist Monasteries
Gregorlt Schopen
10. The N{arks of the Buddha, Revisited
Kennetlt. Lts k
1 1. Contestations and the Landscape of piety and porver:
Visualization of the Uruvela Sequence at Sanchi
Seema Bawa
12. Interface bet',veen Buddhism and Islam: View
from Earlv Chittagong in South-Eastern Bengal
Suchandra Ghosh
TE,XTS AND TRADITIONS
13. Reinterpreting Buddhism in the Light of
Lrpa2a Kauial2a ('Skill in Means,)
Aruind Sharma 31 1
14. Thert Sarhghamitra: A Voice of Women's Struggle
for Liberation
Aiswarya Biswas 3l g
15. Dharma Therapv in Buddhism:
A Buddhist Psychological Review on Counselling
and Psychotherapy
vasantha Priyadarshana
16. Nagarjuna and Wittgenstein on erro Nathan kaiz
17. On Knowing the Buddha
Alexander Winne
Bibliography
notes on Editor and Contributors