Synopsis After an interval of more than fifteen years, the publishers called for a new edition to satisfy a small continuous demand.  The whole of the 1547 articles contained in the first edition have accordingly been re-written with a view to condense as well as to correct the subject matter of the book, in order to admit of an addition of 577 new articles without materially increasing the bulk of the volume or omitting any point of interest.  The literature, the biography, and the philosophy of Chinese and Tibetan Buddhism have been specially laid under contribution to extend the usefulness of this Handbook, whilst the substitution of a Japanese Vocabulary in place of the former Chinese Index now makes the book a guide to the understanding of Japanese as well as Chinese Buddhism.