Contents:

• Preface (Oskar von Hinüber)
• A Gandhari Version of the Simile of the Turtle and the Hole in the Yoke (Mark Allon)
• Three Pāli Works Revisited (Nalini Balbir)
• The Susīma-sutta and the Wisdom-Liberated Arahant (Bhikkhu Bodhi)
• Remarks on the Third Precept: Adultery and Prostitution in Pali Texts (Steven Collins)
• Caveat lector (Margaret Cone)
• Saṅkhepasārasaṅgaha: Abbreviation in Pali (Kate Crosby)
• A Note on the Heterodox Calendar and a Disputed Reading in the Kālakācāryakathā (Paul Dundas)
• What’s in a Repetition? On Counting the Suttas of the Saṃyutta-nikāya (R.M.L. Gethin)
• A Note on vinaya (Minoru Hara)
• A Note on micchādiṭṭhi in Mahavamsa (Padmanabh S. Jaini)
• Further Reflections on Buddhism and Philology (Eivind G. Kahrs)
• Stretching the Vinaya Rules and Getting Away with It (Petra Kieffer-Pülz)
• On the Corresponance of Helmer Smith and Gunnar Jarring (Siegfried Lienhard)
• Recent Japanese Studies in the Pali Commentarial Literature (Sodo Mori)
• The Career of Women Disciple Bodhisattas (William Pruitt)
• Sanskrit Ikṣvāku, Pāli Okkāka, and Gāndhārī Iṣmaho (Richard Salomon and Stefan Baums)
• On Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra VII.1 (Lambert Schmithausen)
• The Buddhist Bhikṣu’s Obligation to Support His Parents in Two Vinaya Traditions (Gregory Schopen)
• Zombies and Half-Zombies: Mahāsūtras and Other Protective Measures (Peter Skilling)