Foreword -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Note on linguistics -- Part 1: The Buddhism of South Asia. Introduction ; 1. Gautama's enlightenment ; 2. The Buddha as teacher ; 3. Development of Indian Buddhism ; 4. Beginnings of Mahāyāna Buddhism in India ; 5. Soteriology and pantheon of the Mahāyāna ; 6. Buddhist Tantra ; 7. Facets of later Indian Buddhism -- Part 2: The development of Buddhism outside India. Introduction ; 8. The Buddhism of Southeast Asia ; 9. Buddhism in the Tibetan culture area ; 10. East Asian Buddhism ; 11. Buddhism Comes West -- Appendix: Buddhist meditation -- Glossary -- An overview of the Buddhist scriptures.