CONTENTS:-
I. Buddhism - General:
1. Buddhism and the state in eighth century Tibet/Geoffrey Samuel.
2. The rituals and their origins in the visionary accounts of the Fifth Dalai Lama/Samten G. Karmay.
3. Fourfold meditation: outer, inner, secret and suchness/Yael Bentor.
4. Towards an understanding to Tathagatagarbha interpretation in Tibet with special reference to the Ratnagotravibhaga/Anne Burchardi.
5. 'Gos Lo tsa ba Gzhon nu dpal's extensive commentary on and study of the Ratnagotravibhagavyakhya/Klaus-Dieter Mathes.
6. Skal ldan mgur ma dang de'i khyad chos/Dge 'Dun Rab Gsal.
7. Iranian themes in Tibetan Tantric culture: the Dakini/David Templeman.
8. The visionary lineages of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo/Diana Cousens.
II. Buddhism -- Hermeneutics:
1. Studies in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Hermeneutics (3): Grammatical models in Buddhist formulas/Peter Verhagen.
2. Hermeneutique des tantra: Le ye shes rdo rje kun las btus pa'i rgyud las 'byung ba'i rgyan bdun rnam par dgrol ba de Sraddhikaravarman/Pierre Arenes.
III. Buddhism -- Anthropology:
1. Lhacho [Lha mchod] and Hrinan [Sri gnon]: the structure and diachrony of a pair of rituals/Nicolas Sihle.
2. The ritual of freeing lives/David Holler.
IV. Buddhism -- Gender:
1. A chung gnam rdzong bsam gtan chos 'phel gling gi btsun ma'i 'tsho ba spyod stangs skor dpyad pa/Bde Skyid Sgrol Ma.
2. Grags can bud med bstan ma'i sku rten blo bzang tshe sgron dang khong gi skor mdo tsam gleng ba/Byang Gnos Pa Tshe G-Yang.
3. A Tibetan female state oracle/Hanna Havnevik.
V. Buddhism -- Great Perfection:
1. Chinese Chan and Tibetan Rdzogs Chen: preliminary remarks on two Tibetan Dunhuang manuscripts/Carmen Meinert.
2. The resolution of the simultaneous and gradual approaches to the great perfection in the Klong chen snying thig/Sam Van Schaik.
3. The Rdzogs chen murals of the Klu khang in Lhasa/Jakob Winkler.
VI. Bon -- Great Perfection:
1. Unbounded functionality: a modest Rdzogs Chen rejection of the classic Don byed nus pa criterion/Anne C. Klein.
2. A brief survey of the Lung rigs rin po che'i mdzod blo gsal snying gyi nor by Shar rdza Bkra Shis rgyal mtshan (1859-1934)/Donatella Rossi.
VII. Bon -- General:
1. Gshen rab mi bo che'i Mdzad rnam bsdus ma'i skor gleng ba/Don Grub Lha Rgyal.
2. Coming into existence: Bon notions of embryological development/Eika Vorndran.
3. Bod kyi shes rig las 'byung ba'i skor rags tsam gleng ba/Tshe Dbang Lha Mo.
4. Zhang bod kyi gso ba rig pa'i grol phugs 'bum bzhi dang rgyud bzhi'i skor la dpyad pa/Dbra Khyung Dge Bshes Skal Bzang Nor Bu.
VIII. Literature: 1. The great Indian epics in the version of Dmar Ston Chos kyi rgyal po/Ulrike Roesler. 2. The unreal world of Tibetan free verse poetry: a preliminary study on topics and themes in contemporary Tibetan free verse poetry/Francoise Robin.
