1. Buddhist India and the classical and early Christian West
2. Syncretism along the Silk Road
3. The Jesuit encounter with Buddhism
4. The "China craze" and the rise of European Orientalists
5. From Herder to Heidegger : the embedding of Buddhism in Western philosophy
6. The rise of theosophy and the "great game"
7. Transcendentalists, Christian missionaries, and Asian Buddhist immigrants to America
8. Japanese Zen missions to the West
9. Forbidden Tibet : Western explorations and fantasies
10. Buddhism takes root in the West : the Christian response and a hesitant ecumenism
11. Beat Zen and crazy wisdom
12. The Dalai Lama and the transformation of Buddhism in the West
