| Section | 
                    Title | 
                    Author | 
                    Published | 
                
                
                
                    
                        | Editorial
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                            Introduction to the Papers on Jātakas and Related Stories | 
                            Naomi Appleton | 
                            Jul 13, 2012 | 
                        
                    
                
                    
                        | Articles
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                            The Multi-life Stories of Gautama Buddha and Vardhamana Mahavira | 
                            Naomi Appleton | 
                            Jul 12, 2012 | 
                        
                    
                        
                             | 
                            Explicating the Buddha’s Final Illness in the Context of his Other Ailments: the Making and Unmaking of some Jātaka Tales | 
                            John S. Strong | 
                            Jul 12, 2012 | 
                        
                    
                        
                             | 
                            Not for the Achievement of a Sāvaka or Paccekabuddha: The Motive behind the Bodhisatta’s Self-sacrifice in the Paññāsa-Jātaka | 
                            Toshiya Unebe | 
                            Jul 12, 2012 | 
                        
                    
                        
                             | 
                            Reshaping the Jātaka Stories: from Jātakas to Avadānas and Praṇidhānas in Paintings at Kucha and Turfan | 
                            Tianshu Zhu | 
                            Jul 12, 2012 | 
                        
                    
                        
                             | 
                            The Employment and Significance of the Sadāprarudita’s Jātaka/Avādana Story in Different Buddhist Traditions | 
                            Changtzu Shi | 
                            Jul 12, 2012 | 
                        
                    
                        
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                            Sleeping Next to My Coffin: Representations of the Body in Theravada Buddhism | 
                            Elizabeth J. Harris | 
                            Jul 12, 2012 | 
                        
                    
                        
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                            Epistemological Parallels between the Nikāyas and the Upaniṣads | 
                            Stephen A. Evans | 
                            Jul 12, 2012 | 
                        
                    
                
                    
                        | Reviews
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                             | 
                            Civilisation et femmes célibataires dans le Bouddhisme en Asie du Sud et du Sud-Est: ‘Une étude de genre’, by Steven Collins. Les Conférences de l’École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, Les Éditions du Cerf, 2011. 133 pp, £11.66, ISBN-13: 9782204095839 | 
                            Pascale Engelmajer | 
                            Jul 13, 2012 | 
                        
                    
                        
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                            Tibet: A History by Sam van Schaik. Yale University Press, 2011. 336 pp., 24 b&w illus, Hb. $35.00/£25.00, ISBN-13: 9780300154047 | 
                            Jill Sudbury | 
                            Jul 13, 2012 | 
                        
                    
                        
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                            Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic: a Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice, by Alan Wallace. Columbia University Press, 2012. 304 pp., Hb. $27.95 / £18.95, ISBN-13: 9780231158343. | 
                            Walter Arader | 
                            Jul 13, 2012 |