Religions of Asia in practice: an anthology

RELIGIONS OF INDIA IN PRACTICE: Introduction: a brief history of religions in India / Richard H. Davis

Bengali songs to Kali / Rachel Fell McDermott

Women's celebration of Muhammad's birth / Marcia Hermansen

Encountering the smallpox goddess: the auspicious song of Sitala / Tony K. Stewart

Jain stories inspiring renunciation / Phyllis Granoff

Mother Ten's stories / Ann Grodzins Gold

The life of Guru Nanak / Hew McLeod

The exemplary devotion of the "Servant of Hari" / Tony K. Stewart

The origin of Linga worship / Richard H. Davis

BUDDHISM IN PRACTICE: Introduction / Donald S. Lopez, Jr.

Consecrating the Buddha / Donald K. Swearer

Sutra on the merit of bathing the Buddha / Donald Boucher

The whole universe as a sutra / Luis O. Gomez

The book of resolving doubts concerning the semblance Dharma / Kyoko Tokuno

Auspicious things / Charles Hallisey

Daily life in the assembly / T. Griffith Foulk

Awakening the Zen Buddhist women / Sallie B. King

Death-bed testimonials of the Pure Land Faithful / Daniel B. Stevenson

RELIGIONS OF CHINA IN PRACTICE: Introduction: The spirits of Chinese religion / Stephen F. Teiser

Laozi: ancient philosopher, master of immortality and god / Livia Kohn

The lives and teachings of the divine lord of Zitong / Terry F. Kleeman

A sutra promoting the white-robed Guanyin as Giver of Sons / Chun-fang Yu

Body gods and inner vision: The Scripture of the Yellow Court / Paul W. Kroll

Teachings of a spirit medium / Jean DeBernardi

Spellbinding / Donald Harper

Record of the Feng and Shan sacrifices / Stephen Bokenkamp

The law of the spirits / Valerie Hansen

Shrines to local former worthies / Ellen Neshar

The Scripture in Forty-two Sections / Robert H. Sharf

The Scripture on Perfect Wisdom for Humane Kings Who Wish to Protect Their States / Charles Orzech

Stories from an illustrated explanation of the Tract of the Most Exalted on Action and Response / Catherine Bell

RELIGIONS OF TIBET IN PRACTICE: Introduction / Donald S. Lopez, Jr.

The royal way of supreme compassion / Matthew Kapstein

Guidebook to Lapchi / Toni Huber

The Yogin Lorepa's retreat at Lake Namtso / Nalanda Translation Committee

A fasting ritual / Roger Jackson

The regulations of a monastery / Jose Ignacio Cobezon

A prayer for the deliverance from rebirth / Donald S. Lopez, Jr.

Turning back gossip / Matthew Kapstein

A prayer flag for Tara / Donald S. Lopez, Jr.

RELIGIONS OF JAPAN IN PRACTICE: Introduction / George J. Tanabe, Jr.

Kaibara Ekken's precepts on the family / Mary Evelyn Tucker

A refutation of clerical marriage / Richard Jaffe

The contemplation of suchness / Jacqueline L. Stone

Chido's dreams of Buddhism / William M. Bodiford

The Confucian monarchy of Nara Japan / Charles Holcombe

Nationalistic Shinto: a child's guide to Yasukuni Shrine / Richard Gardner

The founding of Mount Koya and Kukai's eternal meditation / George J. Tanabe, Jr.

Motoori Norinaga on the two shrines at Ise / Mark Teeuwen

Sasaki Shoten: toward a postmodern Shinshu Theology / Jan Van Bragt

Contemporary Zen Buddhist tracts for the laity: grassroots Buddhism in Japan / Ian Reader.