Schopen (East Asian languages and cultures, U. of California-Los Angeles) provides a second collection of essays, all but one of the 14 published in various places between 1994 and 2001. Among the topics he explores are lending on interest, dead monks and bad debts, the monastic ownership of servants or slaves, and the Buddhist occupation of early burial sites in India. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)