Preface

pp.：  9 – 9

Preface to the Second Edition

pp.：  10 – 12

Social History and the Confrontation of Cultures: Foreword to the Third Edition, by Stephen F. Teiser

pp.：  13 – 28

Bibliography

pp.：  29 – 38

CHAPTER ONE: Introductory Remarks

pp.：  39 – 55

CHAPTER TWO: An historical survey from the first to the beginning of the fourth century AD

pp.：  56 – 118

I. Han Buddhism

pp.：  56 – 80

II. The period of the Three Kingdoms (220–265/280)

pp.：  81 – 94

III. The Western Jin (265–317 AD)

pp.：  95 – 118

CHAPTER THREE: Buddhism at Jiankang and in the South-East, ca. 320–420

pp.：  119 – 217

Introductory Remarks

pp.：  119 – 132

The First Phase (ca. 310–346)

pp.：  133 – 147

The Second Phase (ca. 346–402)

pp.：  148 – 191

The Last Phase: Huan Xuan's usurpation and the rise of Liu Yu (402–420 AD)

pp.：  192 – 197

Appendix A: documents concerning the controversy of 340 AD

pp.：  198 – 201

Appendix B: Xi Chao's Fengfa yao ("Essentials of Religion")

pp.：  202 – 214

Appendix C: Zhi Dun's introduction to his "Eulogy on an Image of the Buddha Sakyamuni"

pp.：  215 – 217

CHAPTER FOUR: The centres at Xiangyang, Jiangling and Lu Shan, and the influence of Northern Buddhism

pp.：  218 – 291

Appendix: Translation of the biography of Shi Huiyuan

pp.：  278 – 291

CHAPTER FIVE: "In the defense of faith", anti-clericalism and Buddhist apologetic in the fourth and early fifth century

pp.：  292 – 325

Appendix: The Zhoushu yiji and the original Zhushu jinian

pp.：  324 – 325

CHAPTER SIX: "The Conversion of the Barbarians", the early history of a Buddho-Daoist conflict

pp.：  326 – 358

Notes

pp.：  359 – 485

Index of Chinese names and terms

pp.：  486 – 497

Index of names and terms other than Chinese

pp.：  498 – 506

Additions and Corrections

pp.：  507 – 78

MAPS

pp.：  79 – 510

I. Buddhism during the later Han (25–220 AD)

pp.：  79 – 79

II. The main routes and trade centres in later Han times

pp.：  80 – 97

III. Buddhism from the first to the end of the third century

pp.：  98 – 119

IV. Buddhism from the middle of the first to the end of the fourth century

pp.：  120 – 152

V. Buddhist in the "Eastern region", 4th century AD

pp.：  153 – 510