Introduction: The Buddhist System in Transition / Michael Jerryson

Part I: Regions South Asian

Contemporary Sri Lankan Buddhist Traditions / Mahinda Deegalle

Buddhism in Contemporary India / David Geary and Sraman Mukherjee

Buddhism in Contemporary Bhutan / Samdrup Rigyal and Alyson Prude

East Asian

Contemporary Chinese Buddhist Traditions / Mario Poceski

Contemporary Korean Buddhist Traditions / Mark A. Nathan

Contemporary Japanese Buddhist Traditions / Elisabetta Porcu

Central Asian

Contemporary Tibetan Buddhism / Abraham Zablocki

Contemporary Mongolian Buddhism / Vesna A. Wallace and Christine Murphy

Southeast Asian

Contemporary Vietnamese Buddhism / Alexander Soucy

Contemporary Thai Buddhism / Rachelle Scott

Contemporary Burmese Buddhism / Niklas Foxeus

Contemporary Cambodian Buddhist Traditions: Seen from the Past / Ashley Thompson

Contemporary Buddhism in Malaysia / Jeffrey Samuels

Contemporary Lao Buddhism : ruptured histories / Patrice Ladwig

European-American

Buddhism in Latin America / Cristina Rocha

US Buddhist Traditions / Joseph Cheah

European Buddhist Traditions / Laurence Cox

Southern

Buddhism in Africa / Michel Clasquin-Johnson

Buddhism in Australia and the Oceania / Michelle Barker

Global

Diasporic Buddhisms and Convert Communities /

John Nelson

Buddhist International Organizations / Brooke Schedneck.

Part II: Modalities Material Culture

Buddhist Relics and Pilgrimage / Jovan Maud

Contemporary Buddhist Architecture: From reliquary to theme park / Lawrence Chua

Contemporary Buddhism and Iconography / Jessica Patterson

Buddhism and Media Technologies / Gregory Price Grieve and Daniel Veidlinger

Social Engagement

Contemporary Buddhism and Ecology / Susan M. Darlington, Hampshire College

Buddhism, Business, and Economics / Trine Brox and Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg

Contemporary Buddhism and Education / Vladimir Tikhonov

Buddhism, Nationalism, and Governance / Matthew J. Walton

Buddhism, Conflict, and Peacebuilding / Michael Jerryson

Practices

Contemporary Buddhist Chanting and Music / Paul D. Greene

Buddhist Healing and Taming in Tibet / Barbara Gerke

Contemporary Buddhism and Magic / Erick White

Contemporary Tantric Buddhist Traditions / David B. Gray

Contemporary Buddhism and Death / Mark Rowe

Identity

Buddhism and Gender / Sharon A. Suh

Buddhism, Race, and Ethnicity / Joseph Cheah

Buddhism and Sexual Orientation / Hsiao-Lan Hu

Buddhist Encounters with Diversity / Donald K. Swearer

Academics

Buddhism and Science as Ethical Discourse / Francisca Cho

The Contemporary Study of Buddhism / Nathan McGovern.