I. Melville's Encounters with Buddhism
1. The Prologue to Buddhist Studies
4. Possibilities and Probabilities
5. Mardi and Other Mysteries
II. Ishmael's Way-Seeking Mind
7. Narcissus and Dongshan
9. Whaling Life, Monastic Life
11. Impermanence and Interdependence
12. Philosophy, Koans, and Silence
III. Moby Dick's Inscrutable Selflessness
14. The First Principle of All Things
16. The Measurements of the Whale Skeleton
IV. Captain Ahab's Universe
18. A Factionalized Consciousness
19. Savagery Beyond Savagery
20. Faith and the Three Mates
22. Pip, Who Jumped from the Whale-Boat
