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Die Statue und der Tempel des Arya Va-ti bzang-po
Ein Beitrag zu Geschichte und Geographie des tibetischen Buddhismus
Study of the cult of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara in Mang-yul sKyid-grong in south-western Tibet based on the pilgrimage guidebook written by Brag-dkar rta-so sPrul-sku Chos-kyi...
Martyrdom in Literature
Visions of Death and Meaningful Suffering in Europe and the Middle East from Antiquity to Modernity
This book aims to achieve a deeper understanding of the very human phenomenon of martyrdom by analysing in detail its highly varied re-enactments in European and Middle Eastern...
Editor: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio
Catalogue des manuscrits conservés dans la bibliothèque de l’archevêché grec-catholique d’Alep (Syrie)
Manuscrits arabes-chrétiens de l’archevêché grec-catholique d’Alep
This catalogue is typical of an ecclesiastic library belonging to a theological institution devoted to the training of priests. It is an invaluable testimony for the study of the...
Der Ortenberger Altar
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Der Ortenberger Altar ist eines der Hauptwerke der Malerei des frühen 15. Jahrhunderts. Die Schönheit, Sorgfalt...
Studien zur Christianisierung Nubiens
In this study, the author has assembled the literary and archeological sources that illuminate the Christianization of Nubia in the sixth century. At their center stands a report...
The Places where Siddhartha Trod
Lumbini and Kapilavastu
Buddhist Deities of Nepal
Iconography in Two Sketchbooks
Testimonies for the Bstod-pa brgyad-cu-pa
An Early Hymn Praising Diamkarasrijñana Atisa
All-Erlösung und All-Einheit
Studien zum »Buch des heiligen Hierotheos« und seiner Rezeption in der syrisch-orthodoxen Theologie
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Im syrischen „Buch des heiligen Hierotheos“ werden im Bild des Seelenaufstieges sowohl die Erlösung aller...
Three-Vow Theories in Tibetan Buddhism
A Comparative Study of Major Traditions from the Twelfth through Nineteenth Centuries
Since the 12th century, a central feature of Buddhism in Tibet was its harmonizing of tantric practice with the moral codes of monastic discipline and Bodhisattva altruism. All...
The Architecture of Decani and the Role of Archbishop Danilo II
This book re-evaluates the position of the fourteenth-century church of Deçani Monastery within the particular historical context. The author discloses the organizational pattern...
Facsimile Edition Series Vol. 3: A Buddhist Correspondence: The Letters of Lo-chen bSod-nams rgya-mtshoMonograph Series Vol. 3: Life and Travels of Lo-chen bSod-nams rgya-mtsho
Biblia Sacra figuris expressa
Mnemotechnische Bilderbibeln des 15. Jahrhunderts
Mnemonic Bibles are a particular variant of the late-medieval visual art of memory. Clerics tried to memorize with the help of this special mnemotechnic tool the entire content of...
Jakob Wimpfeling. Lob des Speyrer Doms. Laudes ecclesiae Spirensis
Faksimile der Inkunabel von 1486. Pfälzische Landesbibliothek Speyer, Inc. 141
The cathedral of Speyer was the subject of a panegyric poem written 1486 by the Alsatian humanist Jakob Wimpfeling. The poem is an important source for the history of...
Facsimile Edition Series Vol. 1: The Oldest Block Print of Klong-chen Rab-’byams-pa’s Theg mchog mdzod. Vol. 2: Four Unknown Mahamudra Works of the Bo-dong-pa School.Monograph Series Vol. 2: Early Buddhist Block Prints from mang-yul Gung-thang
Proceedings of the Third European Conference of Iranian Studies
Held in Cambridge, 11th to 15th September 1995. Old and Middle Iranian Studies
The 3rd European Conference of Iranian Studies, at which more than 130 papers were presented, was held in Cambridge in 1995. A selection of the best contributions will be...
Die Aufstiegspsalmen des Herakleides
Untersuchungen zum Seelenaufstieg und zur Seelenmesse bei den Manichäern
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Eine spezielle Form der Opferfeier in der spätantiken gnostischen Religion Manichäismus war die Seelenmesse, die...
Bibliographie deutschsprachiger Islamwissenschaftler und Semitisten vom Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts bis 1985. Band 3
Zendavesta or the religious books of the Zoroastrians
Volume I: The Zend texts
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Das „Avesta“ (oder „Zendavesta“) ist eine Sammlung heiliger Schriften der Anhänger der von Zarathustra...