This special issue of Pacific World includes essays presented during a conference on Buddhism and cognitive science hosted by the Institute of Buddhist Studies and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences on May 10, 2002. A second section of the journal includes essays presented during a conference entitled "Visions and Visualization: Buddhist Praxis on the Silk Road". This second conference was hosted by the Institute of Buddhist Studies and the Stanford Buddhist Studies Center on March 22, 2002. Articles, translations, and book reviews unrelated to these conferences are also included. (Zach Rowinski 2004-06-10)
Special section on "Buddhism and cognitive science" : Buddhism and cognitive science: contributions to an enlarged discourse, symposium proceedings / Richard K. Payne ; A science of consciousness: Buddhism (1), the modern west (0) / B. Alan Wallace ; How do i know thee? let me count the ways: meditation and basic cognitive processes / Eleanor Rosch ; Studying "no mind": the future of orthogonal approaches / Steven A. Tainer ; Cognitive theories of ritual and Buddhist practice: an examination of Ilkka Pyysiäinen's theory / Richard K. Payne -- Special section on "Visions and visualization : Buddhist praxis on the silk road : Editorial note ; A rough sketch of Central Asian Buddhism / Kōgi Kudara ; Buddhism of Bāmiyān / Meiji Yamada ; Practice of visualization and the visualization Sūtra: an examination of mural paintings at Toyok, Turfan / Nobuyoshi Yamabe ; Hidden realms and pure abodes: Central Asian Buddhism as frontier religion in the literature of India, Nepal, and Tibet /
Ronald M. Davidson ; The Buddhist culture of the Old Uigur peoples / Kōgi Kudara -- Articles and translations : The idea of the last dharma-age in Shinran's thought, part 2 / Kyōshin Asano ; Rennyo's theory on Amida Buddha's name and its relationship to Shinran's Thought, part 2 / Kōju Fugen ; An examination of the historical development of the concept of two aspects of deep belief, part 2 / Ryōshō Yata ; Pure Land Buddhism in China: a doctrinal history, chapter five: the early Pure Land faith: southern China, and chapter six: The early Pure Land faith: northern China / Shinkō Mochizuki and Leo M. Pruden (translator) -- Book reviews : Judith Simmer-Brown, Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism / Susan M. Abbott ; Marcia Binder Schmidt, Compiled and Edited, The Dzogchen Primer: Embracing the Spiritual Path According to the Great Perfection / Randall Studstill ; James W. Heisig, Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto School / Peter Suares ; Richard M. Jaffe, Neither Monk nor Layman: Clerical Marriage in Modern Japanese Buddhism / Kanjō Asuka -- Notes and news : BDK English Tripitaka series: a progress report