Foreword

The series editor is happy to present these essays in the same series whose quality standard had the good omen of starting with professor Hajime Nakamura’s bibliographical survey Indian Buddhism. Since then the series has maintained a general excellence. Readers of the preceding work of my essays Buddhist insight (ed. By Geroge R. Elder) should appreciate the present collection as a companion volume. The attentive peruser of the present essays may notice that they are more devoted to solving basic problems of Buddhism, even with a restrained type of contention. Scholars who had held that Prof. Wayman’s contributions are mainly in the field of Tantra should be surprised to find these numerous well argued essays in non-tantric Buddhism. They illustrate the range of the author’s interests.