Introduction, Daniel Cozort and James Mark Shields
Part I: Foundations
1. Karma, Peter Harvey
2. The Bodhisattva Precepts, Paul Groner
3. Ethics, Meditation, and Wisdom, Justin Whitaker and Douglass Smith
Part II: Ethics and Buddhist Traditions
4. Moral Development in Early Buddhist Literature, Martin T. Adams
5. The Vinaya, Charles S. Prebish
6. Bhiksuni Ordination, Bhikkhu Analayo
7. The Changing Way of the Bodhisattva, Barbra Clayton
8. Madhyamaka Ethics, Bronwyn Finnegan
9. Ethics in Pure Land Schools, Michael Conway
10. A Perspective on Ethics in the Lotus Sutra, Gene Reeves
11. Ethics in Zen, Christopher Ives
12. Tantric Ethics, Gareth Sparham
13. Buddhist Ethics in South and Southeast Asia, Juliana Essen
14. East Asian Buddhist Ethics, Richard Madsen
15. Buddhist Ethics in Contemporary Tibet, Holly Gayley
Part III: Comparative Perspectives
16. Buddhist Ethics Compared to Western Ethics, Sīlavādin Meynard Vasen
17. Buddhism and the Psychology of Moral Judgments, Emily McRae
18. Buddhist Reductionism and the Logical Space of Reasons, Dan Arnold
Part IV: Buddhism and Society
19. The Buddhist Just Society, Peter Harvey
20. Buddhist Economics, James Mark Shields
21. Buddhist Environmental Ethics, Stephanie Kaza
22. Buddhism, War, and Violence, Michael Jerryson
23. The Ethics of Engaged Buddhism in Asia, Sallie B. King
24. The Ethics of Engaged Buddhism in the West, Christopher Queen
Part V: Contemporary Issues
25. The Buddhist Basis for a Doctrine of Human Rights, Damien Keown
26. Buddhism and Women, Alice Collett
27. Buddhism and Sexuality, Amy Paris Langenberg
28. Buddhist Perspectives on Abortion and Reproduction, Michael Barnhart
29. Buddhism and Euthanasia, Damien Keown
30. Suicide in Buddhist Ethics, Martin Kovan
31. Buddhism and Animal Rights, Paul Waldau