WANG Bangwei: Preface. I Institutions or Affiliations of the Contributors. I WANG Bangwei: [Dārṣṭāntikas and the Application of Story Telling in Buddhist Literature] (chines.). 1 John S. Strong: When Are Miracles Okay? The Story of Piṇḍola and the Kevaddha Sutta Revisited. 13 Peter Skilling: Did the Buddhists Believe Their Narratives? Desultory Remarks on the very Idea of Buddhist Mythology. 45 Charles Willemen: New Bodhisattvas and Tathāgatas. 77 Duan Qing: [The Model of Buddhist Myth seen in Zaoxiang Gongde Jing] (chines.). 83 Yang Fuxue: [Uygur Buddhism and Indian Epic Rāmayāna] (chines.). 103 Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp: On the Edge of Myth and History: Za hor, its Place in the History of Early Indian Buddhist Tantra, and Dalai Lama V and the Genealogy of its Royal Family. 114 Sareji: [Buddhapāla, Dam pa sangs rgyas and Bodhidharma] (chines.). 165 Liu Zhen: [Tales of the Nine-colored Deer in Buddhist Literature and Art] (chines.). 177 Chen Ming: [Names of Indian Gods and Goddesses in the Translations by Yijing: Cultural Cognizance and Selection of the Words] (chines.). 193 Liang Liling: [Omen of Dream in Chinese Buddha's Biographies] (chines.). 216 Fan Muyou: [Further Remarks on Ṛṣyaśṛṅga and Monk Yueming] (chines.). 231 Imre Hamar: [Miraculous Stories about the Avatamṣaka-sūtra in the Huayan exegetical tradition] (chines.). 238 Jinhua Chen: [Fact and Fiction: The Creation of the “Third Chan Patriarch” and His Legends] (chines.). 249 James Robson: Composite Compositions: Chinese Buddhist Mythology and its Asian Connections. 300 Li Ling: [Xuanzang and the Great God Shensha: A Pictorial Reflection of Esoteric Buddhism] (chines.). 317 Li Xiaorong: [Buddhist Stories in Laozi’s Biography: A Case of Hunyuan Shenji] (chines.). 327 Li Yuzhen: [The Belief in Avalokiteśvara as a Cakravarti-rāja in Bai Nationality of Yunnan] (chines.). 340 Wang Xiaoping: [Supernatural Hallucination in Japanese Buddhist Biographies: A Case from Honchō Shinsen Den] (chines.). 357