Contents:

• Foreword;
• Abbreviations;
• The Theravādins and East India According to the Canonical Texts (André Bareau);
• The Buddhayāna of Indonesia: A Syncretistic Form of Theravāda (Heinz Bechert);
• The Paṭṭhāna and the Development of the Theravādin Abhidhamma (L.S. Cousins);
• A New Theravādin Liturgy (Richard Gombrich);
• The Ghost Word dvīhitikā and the Descriptions of Famines in Early Buddhist Literature (O. von Hinüber);
• Keci `Some’ in the Pāli Commentaries (I.B. Horner);
• Tīrthaṇkara-prakṛti and the Bodhisattva Path (S. Padmanabh Jaini);
• Fa-hsien and Buddhist Texts in Ceylon (J.W. de Jong);
• The Philosophy of History in Early Buddhism (D.J. Kalupahana);
• The Gārava-sutta of the Saṃyutta-Nikāya and its Mahāyānist Developments (Étienne Lamotte);
• Devas and Adhidevas in Buddhism (K.R. Norman);
• Humour in Pāli Literature (Walpola Rahula);
• A Further Note on Pāli gotrabhū (D. Seyfort Ruegg);
• Pāli Literature in Cambodia (H. Saddhatissa);
• Some Problems of the Later Pāli Literature (A.K. Warder).