Articles

1. Opening Statement by Charles Prebish
2. Dan Cozort: "'Cutting the Roots of Virtue': Tsongkhapa on the Results of Anger" (currently published in Vol. 2 of the Journal of Buddhist Ethics)
3. "Buddhism and Suicide: The Case of Channa" by Damien Keown
4. "Ethical Particularism in Theravaada Buddhism" by Charles Hallisey
5. "Are There Seventeen Mahaayaana Ethics?" by David W. Chappell
6. "Response: Visions and Revisions in Buddhist Ethics" by Christopher Ives

 "Good or Skillful? Kusala in Canon and Commentary" by L. S. Cousins

"Continuity and Change in the Economic Ethics of Buddhism--Evidence From the History of Buddhism in India, China and Japan" by Gregory K. Ornatowski

 Book Reviews

• Ocean of Nectar: Wisdom and Compassion in Mahaayaana Buddhism by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. Reviewed by John Powers.
• Zen and the Way of the Sword: Arming the Samurai Psyche by Winston L. King. Reviewed by Charles B. Jones.
• Buddhism and Bioethics by Damien Keown. Reviewed by James P. McDermott.
• Desire, Death, and Goodness: The Conflict of Ultimate Values in Theravaada Buddhism by Grace G. Burford. Reviewed by Mavis Fenn.
• The Five Aggregates: Understanding Theravaada Psychology and Soteriology by Mathieu Boisver. Reviewed by Peter Harvey.
• Visions of Sukhaavatii: Shan-tao's Commentary on the Kuan Wu-Liang-Shou-Fo Ching by Julian F. Pas. Reviewed by Charles B. Jones.
• The Experience of Buddhism: Sources and Interpretations by John S. Strong. Reviewed by Roger Corless.
• Commentary on the Thirty Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva by HH the Dalai Lama. Reviewed by Jay L. Garfield.
• Buddhism and Language: A Study of Indo-Tibetan Scholasticism by Jose Ignacion Cabezon (Foreword by Frank E. Reynolds). Reviewed by Mark Siderits.
• The Presence of the Past: Chronicles, Politics and Culture in Sinhala Life by Steven Kemper. Reviewed by Nirmala S. Salgado.
• The Buddhists in Australia by Enid Adam and Philip J. Hughes, Buddhism in Western Australia: Alienation or Integration? by Enid Adam. Reviewed by Helen Waterhouse.
• Sexuality in Ancient India: A Study Based on the Pali Vinayapi.taka by L.P.N. Perera. Reviewed by Tessa Bartholomeusz.
• Ethics in Early Buddhism by David J. Kalupahana. Reviewed by Peter Harvey.
• Old Wisdom in the New World by Paul Numrich. Reviewed by Martin Baumann.
• Buddhism in a Foreign Land: Essays on Meditation by Robert Mann. Reviewed by Amadeo Solé-Leris.
• The Awakening of the West: The Encounter of Buddhism and Western Culture. By Stephen Batchelor. Reviewed by Adriano Lanza.

• Symposium: Pure Land Buddhism and Honen's Enduring Influence, Saturday, November 30, 1996
• UCLA Faculty Position

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