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Religious Studies
Das Poseidonheiligtum bei Akovitika in Messenien
Struktur und Entwicklungszusammenhang eines regionalen Zentrums. Ergebnisse einer Notgrabung 1969 und einer Nachuntersuchung mit Prospektion 2005
Named after a suburb of the present city of Kalamata, the Poseidon sanctuary of Akovitika achieved considerable importance in the early Iron Age, even though it was surrounded by...
Untersuchungen zum Panegyrikos auf Makarios von Tkoou und zu seiner Überlieferung
The Panegyric on the Coptic bishop Macarius († 451) of the city of Tkoou in Upper Egypt is the only complete Coptic text that reports on the Council of Chalcedon in 451 A.D. It is...
Plants in Early Buddhism and the Far Eastern Idea of the Buddha-Nature of Grasses and Trees
From Turfan to Ajanta
Festschrift for Dieter Schlingloff on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday
Jambupati-sutra
A synoptic romanized edition
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...
Buddhism and Buddhist Literature of South-East Asia
Selected Papers ed. by Claudio Cicuzza
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...
Buddhist Iconography and Ritual in Paintings and Line Drawings from Nepal
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...
The Sherpa »Dumji« Masked Dance Festival
An ethnographic description of the ›great liturgical performance‹ as celebrated annually according to the tradition of the Lamaserwa clan in the village temple of Gonpa Zhung, Solu
Red mda' ba. Buddhist Yogi-Scholar of the Fourteenth Century
The Forgotten Reviver of Madhyamaka Philosophy in Tibet
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...
In den Bergen der Götter
Alte Glaubensvorstellungen, Überlieferungen und Bräuche bei den Georgiern des Kaukasus
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Der Kaukasus, jenes Randgebirge unseres Kontinents, in dem die höchsten Berge Europas aufragen, bezaubert und...
Die Geburt des Propheten Muhammad
Drei Dichtungen aus Mittelasien
This volume focuses on the veneration of the prophet Muhammad in Central Asia towards the end of the 19th century. It presents three text that praise the birth of the prophet: the...
Hevajra and Lam’bras Literature of India and Tibet as Seen Through the Eyes of A-mes-zhabs
The Hevajra Tantras and teachings of the 'Path with Its Fruit' (lam ‘bras) that originated in India have been central practices of Tibetan tantric Buddhism for a millenium. The...
Pali Literature Transmitted in Central Siam
A catalogue based on the Sap Songkhro
„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...
Pali and Vernacular Literature Transmitted in Central and Northern Siam
„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,...
Rare Texts from Tibet
Seven Sources for the Ecclesiastic History of Medieval Tibet
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...
Buddhism and Violence
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...
Das tibetische Fürstentum La stod lHo (um 1265 bis 1642)
Die Geschichte der Herrschaftsbildung nebst einer Edition der Chronik Shel dkar chos ‘byung
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Die Untersuchung über das Fürstentum La stod lHo erschließt anhand des gesamten zur Verfügung stehenden...
Kategorien der Wirklichkeit im frühen Yogacara
Der Fünf-vastu-Abschnitt in der Viniscayasamgrahani der Yogacarabhumi
This book investigates the concept of the five “categories” (vastu) in the Buddhist Yogacara tradition. The five vastus may be understood as an attempt at categorizing all aspects...
Proceedings of the Seminar on The Relationship Between Religion and State (chos srid zung ‘brel) in Traditional Tibet
Lumbini 4-7 March 2000
Verwandtschaft, Religion und Geschlecht im Aserbaidschan
The book relies on a 15months field research in an Azerbaijan village and treats gender spe-cific ideologies in the two domains of kinship and religion. It is shown, that the...