Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Editor’s Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Chapter 1. Dharma and South Asian Spirituality 1
6. Chapter 2. King Aśoka’s Dhaṃma 12
7. Chapter 3. Vedic Dhárman and Dharma 19
8. Chapter 4. Early Buddhism: Three Baskets of Dharma 34
9. Chapter 5. Classical Brahmanical Dharma 60
10. Chapter 6. Two Dharma Biographies? Rāma and Yudhiṣṭhira 74
11. Chapter 7. Two Dharma Biographies? Sītā and Draupadī 89
12. Chapter 8. Dharma in the Bhagavad Gītā 109
13. Chapter 9. Dharma and Bhakti 124
14. Chapter 10. Reimagining the Dharma Hero: The Adventure of the Buddha 142
15. Chapter 11. Dharma for the Twenty-first Century 164
16. Glossary 173
17. Further Reading 177
18. Index 183