CHARLES WEI-HSUN FU is Professor of Buddhism and East Asian Thought in the Department of Religion, Temple University. He is editor of several book series, including Resources in Asian Philosophy and Religion (Greenwood Press) and is co-editor of Buddhist Ethics and Modern Society (Greenwood, 1991). He has authored numerous books and articles in the fields of Eastern and Western thought and has lectured extensively throughout Asia, addressing the role of Asian culture in the modern world.SANDRA A. WAWRYTKO is on the faculties of Philosophy and Asian Studies at San Diego State University. She has written numerous articles in the areas of comparative philosophy and feminism and is co-editor of Buddhist Ethics and Modern Society (Greenwood, 1991). She has recently completed Crystal: Spectrums of Chinese Culture through Poetry (1994), and is currently working on A Source Book on Taoism for Greenwood Press.

• Introduction by Charles Wei-hsun Fu and Sandra A. WawrytkoPrologue: On the Temporal and Spatial Adaptability of the Bodhisattva Precepts, with Reference to the Three Combined Pure Precepts by Dharma Teacher Sheng-yenThe Historical ContextThe Beginnings of Buddhist Discipline: Notes on an Early Buddhist Theory of Action by John Clifford HoltDao-xuan and His Religious Precepts by Tatsugen SatoBuddhist Precepts in Medieval Chinese Biographies of Monks by Koichi ShinoharaVinaya in Two Early Collections of Parables by Charles WillemenThe Importance of Vinaya in the Study of Indian Buddhism, with Special Reference to Chinese Sources by Nobuyuki YamagiwaThe Decline of Buddhist Vinaya in China from a Historical and Cultural Perspective by Tso Sze-bongBuddhist Ethics in Japan and Tibet: A Comparative Study of Bodhisattva and Pratimoksa Precepts by Karma Lekshe TsomoRethinking Buddhist Practice in the Modern WorldBuddhist Reform Movements in Korea During the Japanese Colonial Period: Precepts and the Challenge of Modernity by Robert E. BuswellThe Problem of Ordination: Women in Buddhism by Chatsumarn KabilsinghHouseholders and the Five Precepts by Roongraung BoonyorosThe Application of Buddhist Principles to Administrative Arts by Chaiyong BrahmawongDeath--The Ultimate Challenge: A Buddhist Perspective in the Medical Care of Dying Patients by Venerable Mettanando Bhikkhu, Arthur J. Dyck, and William ReichelRevisionings of Buddhist TheoryPreceptual Truth and the Western Psychology of Human Nature by John H. CrookBuddhist Precepts and the Scientific Challenge by Kenneth K. InadaMixed Precepts, the Bodhisattva Precept, and the Preceptless Precept: A Critical Comparison of the Chinese and Japanese Buddhist Views of Sila/Vinaya by Charles Wei-hsun FuSexism in the Early Sangha: Its Social Basis and Philosophical Dis-solution by Sandra A. WawrytkoGlossaryIndex