The Buddhist tradition is rich in stories, especially those that help teach the sutras. You Are Not Here and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction takes the sutra tradition into new and unexpected places. Classic Buddhist themes reality and illusion, stillness and being, meditation and action are the inspiration for these stories, but the appeal of these powerful, often quirky and provocative works spreads far beyond just students. Like its predecessor, this collection includes both new voices and established masters such as Pico Ayer, Anne Donovan, Robert Olen Butler, and Mark Salzman.

You Are Not Here and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction, Keith Kachtick, editor, Wisdom Publications, Paperback, May 2006, 244 Pages, $16.95

	Contents:  You Are Not Here
Lama Surya Das	Foreword	vii
Keith Kachtik	Introduction	1
Robert Olen Butler	A Good Scent from A Strange Mountain	5
Kate Wheeler	Ringworm	19
Anne Donovan	Buddha Da	47
Samantha Schoech	The Good People of Lake George	1
Mary Yukari Waters	Circling the Hondo	75
Andrew Foster Altschul	You Are Not Here	87
Jess Row	For You	101
Anh Chi Pham	Mandala	125
Sean Murphy	The Tale of THE	137
Pico Iyer	Abandon	143
Dan Zigmund	Humans	153
Michele Martin	The Later Years of Her Life	161
Sean Hoade	Samsara Suite	173
Jeff Davis	Swallow Koans	177
Jake Lorfing	Distant Mountains	189
Geshe Michael Roach	Meditation	191
Anne Carolyn Klein	Dream of a Former Life	209
Dean Sluyter	Nothing	215
Mark Salzman	The Laughing Sutra	217
Hal Hallstein	In Search of the Rainbow Body	237
	About the Contributors	241
	First Appearances	245