Foreword / Michael Zimmermann
Introduction / Carmen Meinert and Hans-Bernd Zöllner
Different cultures and the universality of human rights / Alfred Hirsch
Buddhism and the idea of human rights : resonances and dissonances / Perry Schmidt-Leukel
Theravāda Buddhism and human rights : perspectives from Thai Buddhism / Martin Seeger
The purification of the mind and the encounter with those who suffer : a Christian view of Buddhism and human rights / Kenneth Fleming
Is Mahāyāna Buddhism a humanism? Some remarks on Buddhism in China / Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer
Buddhist responses to state control of religion in China at the century's turn / Shi Zhiru
Translations of human rights : Tibetan contexts / Jan-Ulrich Sobisch and Trine Brox
Human rights and exile-Tibetan politics / Stephanie Römer
Women's rights in the Vajrayāna tradition / Jampa Tsedroen (Carola Roloff).
