Introduction [by] B. L. Smith.--The two wheels of dhamma; a study of early Buddhism, by F. Reynolds.--The ideal social order as portrayed in the chronicles of Ceylon, by B. L. Smith.--Religious Symbolism and political change in Ceylon by G. Obeyesekere.--Sinhalese Buddhism and the dilemmas of reinterpretation, by B. L. Smith.--From philology to anthropology; a bibliographical essay on works related to early, Theravada and Sinhalese Buddhism, by F. Reynolds (p. 107-121)