The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Practice

Introduction: Embodiment and Sense Experience Kevin Trainor and Paula Arai Regional Perspectives Chapter 2. Practice in South Asia Miranda Shaw Chapter 3. Practice in Southeast Asia Nathan McGovern Chapter 4. Practice in East Asia Paula Arai and Eun-su Cho Chapter 5. Practice in Central Asia/Himalayas Todd Lewis Chapter 6. Practice in Europe and North America Scott Mitchell Chapter 7. Globalized Forms of Practice Inken Prohl Material Mediations Chapter 8. Relics and Images John Strong Chapter 9. The Agency of Images Susan Huntington Chapter 10. Texts and Rituals Natalie Gummer Chapter 11. Interactions with Built Environments Abhishek Amar Chapter 12. Interactions with "Natural" Environments Julia Shaw Bodies in Transition Chapter 13. Buddhist Healing Practices Sienna Craig Chapter 14. Pilgrimage Ian Reader Chapter 15. Dance as Vajrayana Practice Miranda Shaw Chapter 16. Buddhist Death Practices Margaret Gouin Body-Mind Transformations Chapter 17. Aural Practices of Chanting & Protection Mahinda Deegalle Chapter 18. Pure Land Practices Charles Jones Chapter 19. Koan Practice Jeff Shore Human & Nonhuman Interactions Chapter 20. Practices of Veneration & Offering Jeffrey Samuels Chapter 21. Ritual Identification and Purification in Esoteric Practice Richard K. Payne Chapter 22. Heavenly Rebirth and Buddhist Soteriology Stephen Jenkins Domestic and Monastic Practices Chapter 23. Women's Ordination Hiroko Kawanami Chapter 24. Monastic Authority in Medieval Japan Lori Meeks Chapter 25. Monastic Discipline and Local Practice Vesna Wallace Chapter 26. Disciplining the Body-Mind Charles Korin Pokorny Chapter 27. Home Altars Linda Ho Peché Chapter 28. Calendrical, Life-cycle, and Periodic Rituals Jonathan Walters Chapter 29. Food Practices Lisa Grumbach Modernities and Emergent Forms of Practice Chapter 30. Nation-State & Monastic Identity Tom Borchert Chapter 31. Tree Ordination & Global Sustainability Susan Darlington Chapter 32. an embodied dharma of race, gender, and sexuality Jasmine Syedullah Chapter 33. Buddhist Chaplaincy Jitsujo T. Gauthier Chapter 34. Buddhist and Non-Buddhist Practitioner Relations Elizabeth Harris Chapter 35. Internet-based Practices Louise Connelly Chapter 36. Contemplative Science and Buddhist Science John D. Dunne Chapter 37. Seeing Through Mindfulness Practices Erik Braun Contributor Bios Thematic Index