TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- THE CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- INAUGURAL ADDRESS -- The Relevance of the Bodhisattva Concept for Today -- INDIA -- The Evolution of the Concept of the Bodhisattva -- The Bodhisattva Returns to This World -- TIBET -- Influence of the Bodhisattva Doctrine on Tibetan Political History -- The View of Bodhicitta in Tibetan Buddhism -- Bodhisattva - The Ethical Phase in Evolution -- CHINA -- The Bodhisattva Idea in Chinese Literature: Typology and Significance -- The Bodhisattva Concept: A Study of the Chinese Buddhist Canon -- JAPAN -- The Bodhisattva Doctrine as Conceived and Developed by the Founders of the New Sects in the Heian and Kamakura Periods -- Japan's New Religions (1945-65): Secularization or Spiritualization? -- The Mykonin: Japan's Representation of the Bodhisattva -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.