Includes bibliographical references and index. - Myth broken and unbroken -- Awareness bound & unbound: on the nature of attention -- Language against its own mystifications: deconstruction in Nagarjuna and Dogen -- Dead words, living words, healing words: the disseminations of Dogen and Eckhart -- Zhuangzi and Nagarjuna on the truth of no truth -- Cyberbabel -- Dying to the self that never was -- The dharma of Emanuel Swedenborg -- The karma of women -- The west against the rest? a Buddhist response to the clash of civilizations -- Terrorism as religion: on the identity crisis of secularism