Miriam Noël Haidle / Sophady Heng / Heike Tausendfreund / Reinhard Vonthein
Wanted: Soft and friable witness. Mimotien ceramic artifacts
Reinhold Walburg
A deposit of goddess plaques at Tissamahārāma – some preliminary considerations
Nimal Perera
Early Historical Clay Cist Graves at Kalotuwawa (Sri Lanka)
Luise Lorenz
Ifri …
Red mda’ ba gZhon nu blo gros (1348-1412) played a pivotal role in the history of Tibetan Buddhists' engagement with Indian Madhyamaka, especially with regard to Candrakirti's interpretation of Nagarjuna. The lasting impact of this historical figure on the shape …
The twelve essays in this volume survey aspects of Buddhism and Buddhist literature in pre-modern South-East Asia and Thailand, drawing on Pali and vernacular texts, liturgy, and inscriptions. They discuss Theravadin conceptions of the Bodhisatta, relations between Sanskrit and vernacular …
The present volume is a romanized collation of four Pali manuscripts of the „Jambupati-sutra“, supplemented by Pali passages extracted from two old Thai-language versions. The „Jambupat-sutra“ is a dramatic narrative that relates how the Buddha overcomes an arrogant and powerful …
P. A. ELTSOV: The idea of civilization in ancient Indian literature and South Asian archaeology
H. SCHENK: Parthian glazed pottery from Sri Lanka and the Indian Ocean trade
H. FALK: Ten rock-shelter inscriptions from Ruhuna, southern Sri Lanka
P. YULE: Safãr, capital …
This book is divided into three sections. The first section introduces one specific tradition of Siddhas transmitted by artists from Nepal. This artistic legacy, which is related to a corpus of texts that go back through *Srisena and Bu ston, …
A preliminary perusal of a puplished set of rare and old bKa’-brgyud-pa manuscript texts that recently surfaces in Lhasa - collected and published under the cover-title „dPal ’Bri gung bka’ brgyud kyi chos mdzod che mo“, The „Grand Dharma Trove …
One of the aims of this volume is to provide material, based on critical, unbiased research illustrating the fact that, at particular moments in their history and in certain aspects of their doctrines, the traditions of Buddhism, like other religious …
Die „Zeitschrift für Archäologie Außereuropäischer Kulturen“ (ZAAK) stellt die geographisch weit gestreuten Forschungsprojekte der Institution dar. Auf diese Weise ermöglicht sie in- und ausländischen Wissenschaftlern ein Diskussionsforum für Forschungen zu vorkolonialzeitlichen Kulturen Amerikas, Afrikas, Süd- und Ostasiens sowie des pazifischen …
The contributions in this volume give an impression of contemporary archaeological, art historical, and historical research in military equipment of and under the influence of nomadic peoples in Eurasian history. The studies cover a considerably long time span and a …
„Pali and Vernacular Literature Transmitted in Central and Northern Siam“ is a preliminary survey of the pre-modern literature of Central and Northern Siam. Based on old records, it inventories both Pali and vernacular literature, classed under 27 categories, dealing with …
„Pali Literature Transmitted in Central Siam“ is a manual of Pali literature. It gives the titles of 529 texts, the majority inscribed on palm-leaf, dealing with Buddhism and ancillary topics such as history and grammar. Each title is accompanied by …
