"This collection of papers is the result of an International Symposium on Buddhology which was held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, on 8 and 9 November 1979 ... under the aegis of the School's Centre of South Asian Studies ..."

Includes bibliographies.

Pali oral literature / L.S. Cousins -- Notes on some Tibetan Bonpo rituals / Philip Denwood -- From monastery to meditation centre / Richard Gombrich -- The nature of the Tathagata / Peter Harvey -- On the concept of gati in the Astasahasrika Parjñaparamita / M. Kedem -- Kingship and nationalism in Pali Buddhism / Trevor Ling -- Buddhism, Christianity and the study of religion / Peter Moore -- The Pratyeka-Buddha in Buddhism and Jainism / K.R. Norman -- From a Vedic ritual to the Buddhist practice of initiation into the doctrine / Boris Oguibenine -- Some remarks on "other stream" / A. Piatigorsky -- On the first work in the Sutta-Pitka / A. Syrkin -- Bodhi and Arahattaphala / Karel Werner.