This new edition includes more material on the different schools of Buddhism including explanations in graphic form, monastic life, popular religion, Buddhist ethics, ritual, the Bodhisattva Path, the Jatakas, the transmission of Buddhism, and class, gender and race. includes illustrations, extracts from original sources, summary boxes, questions for discussion, suggestions for further reading and a companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415550017 is Charles Redd Chair of Religious Studies at Utah State University. is Professor of Buddhist Ethics at Goldsmith's College, University of London. They are the editors of the (Routledge, 2007).