Dale Wright is David B. and Mary H. Gamble Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies and Asian Studies at Occidental College and the author of Philosophical Meditations on Zen Buddhism and Zen Ritual: Studies of Zen Theory in Practice, co-edited with Steven Heine, (OUP 2007). He lives in San Diego.

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; TRADITIONAL BUDDHIST IMAGES OF THE PERFECTION OF GENEROSITY; CRITICAL ASSESSMENT: A CONTEMPORARY PERFECTION OF GENEROSITY; TRADITIONAL BUDDHIST IMAGES OF THE PERFECTION OF MORALITY; CRITICAL ASSESSMENT: A CONTEMPORARY PERFECTION OF MORALITY; TRADITIONAL BUDDHIST IMAGES OF THE PERFECTION OF TOLERANCE; CRITICAL ASSESSMENT: A CONTEMPORARY PERFECTION OF TOLERANCE; TRADITIONAL BUDDHIST IMAGES OF THE PERFECTION OF ENERGY; CRITICAL ASSESSMENT: A CONTEMPORARY PERFECTION OF ENERGY; TRADITIONAL BUDDHIST IMAGES OF THE PERFECTION OF MEDITATION; CRITICAL ASSESSMENT: A CONTEMPORARY PERFECTION OF MEDITATION; TRADITIONAL BUDDHIST IMAGES OF THE PERFECTION OF WISDOM; CRITICAL ASSESSMENT: A CONTEMPORARY PERFECTION OF WISDOM; CONCLUSION; ENDNOTES; REFERENCES

An insightful, pyschologically astute narrative of Eastern-influenced literary introspection