Includes bibliographical references and index.

Notes on the Contributors; 1: Introduction; Deleuzian Remarks on Buddhism; Organization of the Book; Bibliography; 2: Deleuze and the Lotus Sūtra: Toward an Ethics of Immanence; Introduction; Immanence and Transcendence; On Deleuze's Philosophy of Immanence; On the Doctrine of Buddha-Nature in the Lotus Sūtra; Toward an Ethics of Immanence; Conclusion; Bibliography; 3: Deleuze, Spinoza and the Question of Reincarnation in the Mahāyāna Tradition; Introduction; Reincarnation Itself as Real or Conventional? The Spinozist Distinction between the Duration of a Finite Existing Mode and its Eternity. Adequate Relations and the Experience of Active Joy; Post Mortem; What Happens When a Bodhisattva Dies?; Bibliography; 4: Kenji Miyazawa and Takaaki Yoshimoto: Schizophrenic Nature in Japanese Thought; Introduction: On Takaaki Yoshimoto; Kenji Miayazawa and Takaaki Yoshimoto; Yoshimoto's Reading of Miyazawa; Miyazawa's Conception of Nature; Miyazawa's "True Thought"; Schizophrenic Nature; Bibliography; 5: Ango the Schizo: Deleuze, Daraku, Downgoing; Introduction. Preliminary Remarks on Schizoanalysis and the BwO On the Becoming-Deleuze of Buddhism and the Becoming-Buddha of Deleuze; Iki yo, Ochi yo; Daraku; The Buddhist Precept of Contingency; More Perversion! More Artifice!; Ozeanisches Gefühl; Japanese Iconoclasm and the "Chinaman from Königsberg"; Furusato; Downgoing; The Battlelines of Ango the Schizo; Bibliography; 6: On Not Mistaking Deleuze (With the Help of Some Buddhists); Introduction; Empty Names; No Authority; Real Desire; Conclusion; Bibliography. 7: Deleuze and Guattari and Buddhism: Toward Spiritual Anarchism through Reading Toshihiko Izutsu Introduction; I; II; III; Conclusion; References; Index.

This book explores the resonances between Deleuze's philosophy and a range of philosophical concepts in Buddhism. Focusing on this rarely examined relationship, this book gathers perspectives from scholars around the globe to explore the continuities and discontinuities between Deleuze's and Buddhist thought. They examine immanence, intensity, assemblages and desire, and the concepts of ethics and meditation. This volume will prove to be an important resource for readers and scholars interested in philosophy, critical theory and comparative studies. They will find this an engaging and invaluable examination of two different yet similar modes of thought.