| Princeton Readings in Religions | |
| Note on Transliteration, Names, and Abbreviations | |
| Contents by Chronology | |
| Contents by Tradition | |
| Contributors | |
| Introduction | 3 |
| Ethical Practices | |
| Social Values | |
| 1 | Selected Anecdotes to Illustrate Ten Maxims | 25 |
| 2 | Kaibara Ekken's Precepts on the Family | 38 |
| 3 | The Shingaku of Nakazawa Doni | 53 |
| Clerical Precepts | |
| 4 | Eisai's Promotion of Zen for the Protection of the Country | 63 |
| 5 | Shingon's Jiun Sonja and His "Vinaya of the True Dharma" Movement | 71 |
| 6 | A Refutation of Clerical Marriage | 78 |
| Lay Precepts | |
| 7 | Eison and the Shingon Vinaya Sect | 89 |
| 8 | Kokan Shiren's Zen Precept Procedures | 98 |
| Ritual Practices | |
| Gods | |
| 9 | Records of the Customs and Land of Izumo | 113 |
| 10 | Miraculous Tales of the Hasedera Kannon | 117 |
| 11 | Japanese Puppetry: From Ritual Performance to Stage Entertainment | 124 |
| 12 | The Shinto Wedding Ceremony: A Modern Norito | 135 |
| Spirits | |
| 13 | Tama Belief and Practice in Ancient Japan | 141 |
| 14 | Japan's First Shingon Ceremony | 153 |
| 15 | Shingon Services for the Dead | 159 |
| 16 | Genshin's Deathbed Nembutsu Ritual in Pure Land Buddhism | 166 |
| 17 | Women and Japanese Buddhism: Tales of Birth in the Pure Land | 176 |
| 18 | Epic and Religious Propaganda from the Ippen School of Pure Land Buddhism | 185 |
| 19 | Buddhism and Abortion: "The Way to Memorialize One's Mizuko" | 193 |
| Rituals of Realization | |
| 20 | The Contemplation of Suchness | 199 |
| 21 | The Purification Formula of the Nakatomi | 210 |
| 22 | Dogen's Lancet of Seated Meditation | 220 |
| 23 | Chido's Dreams of Buddhism | 235 |
| 24 | A Japanese Shugendo Apocryphal Text | 246 |
| Faith | |
| 25 | On Attaining the Settled Mind: The Condition of the Nembutsu Practitioner | 257 |
| 26 | Plain Words on the Pure Land Way | 268 |
| 27 | Shinran's Faith as Immediate Fulfillment in Pure Land Buddhism | 280 |
| Institutional Practices | |
| Court and Emperor | |
| 28 | The Confucian Monarchy of Nara Japan | 293 |
| 29 | The Founding of the Monastery Gangoji and a List of Its Treasures | 299 |
| 30 | Hagiography and History: The Image of Prince Shotoku | 316 |
| 31 | Nationalistic Shinto: A Child's Guide to Yasukuni Shrine | 334 |
| Sectarian Founders, Wizards, and Heroes | |
| 32 | En the Ascetic | 343 |
| 33 | The Founding of Mount Koya and Kukai's Eternal Meditation | 354 |
| 34 | Legends, Miracles, and Faith in Kobo Daishi and the Shikoku Pilgrimage | 360 |
| 35 | A Personal Account of the Life of the Venerable Genku | 370 |
| 36 | Priest Nisshin's Ordeals | 384 |
| 37 | Makuya: Prayer, Receiving the Holy Spirit, and Bible Study | 398 |
| Orthopraxis and Orthodoxy | |
| 38 | Muju Ichien's Shinto-Buddhist Syncretism | 415 |
| 39 | Contested Orthodoxies in Five Mountains Zen Buddhism | 423 |
| 40 | Motoori Norinaga on the Two Shrines at Ise | 435 |
| 41 | Shinto in the History of Japanese Religion: An Essay by Kuroda Toshio | 451 |
| 42 | Sasaki Shoten: Toward a Postmodern Shinshu Theology | 468 |
| 43 | Contemporary Zen Buddhist Tracts for the Laity: Grassroots Buddhism in Japan | 487 |
| Special Places | |
| 44 | Keizan's Dream History | 501 |
| 45 | Tokeiji: Kamakura's "Divorce Temple" in Edo Popular Verse | 523 |
| App | Chinese Romanization Conversion Tables | 551 |
| Index | 559 |
