Religious Studies

Religious themes and texts of pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia

Studies in honour of Professor Gherardo Gnoli on the occasion of his 65th birthday on 6th December 2002

The volume contains forty-one papers dedicated to the distinguished Iranianist by colleagues, friends and former students, and a complete bibliography of the dedicatee. The papers...

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...

Facsimile Edition Series Vol. 3: A Buddhist Correspondence: The Letters of Lo-chen bSod-nams rgya-mtsho Monograph Series Vol. 3: Life and Travels of Lo-chen bSod-nams rgya-mtsho

Excavations at Gotihawa and a Territorial Survey in Kapilavastu District of Nepal

Preliminary Report

Tübinger Bibelatlas

The Tübingen Bible Atlas – based on the Tübingen Atlas of the Near and Middle East (TAVO) – documents the historical geography of the biblical countries in a unique way in 29 high...

»Lohn« im Indoiranischen

Eine semantische Studie des Rigveda und Avesta

This book is a study of words denoting the concept of ’reward‘, ’recompense‘ in the Rigveda and Avesta. The relevant Vedic and Avestan lexical items are contrasted with words for...

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

Lexikon georgische Mythologie

This volume aims to give an introduction to Georgian mythology, which is an important element of the cultural treasure of this people. It offers an overview of baisc concepts,...

Divitiae Aegypti

Koptologische und verwandte Studien zu Ehren von Martin Krause

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In der Festschrift für Martin Krause zu seinem 65. Geburtstag wurden Aufsätze aus allen Bereichen der Koptologie...

Zamyad Yast

Introduction, Avestan Text, Translation, Glossary

This edition of one of the most interesting and beatuiful hymns of the Younger Avesta is based on a larger edition of the „Zamyad Yast“ in German by the same author. The booklet...

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...

Le panthéon de l’avesta ancien

Les Textes Vieil-Avestiques

Volume II: Répertoires grammaticaux et lexique

Der Yasna Haptanhaiti

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Das Avesta, die heiligen Schriften der Zarathustra-Anhänger, enthält als ältesten Teil die 17 Lieder des...

Les Textes Vieil-Avestiques

Volume I: Introduction, texte et traduction

Der Sasanidische Archetypus

Untersuchungen zu Schreibung und Lautgestalt des Avestischen

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Die Erstaufzeichnung des Avesta-Corpus, von den Verfassern hier als „Sasanidischer Archetypus“ bezeichnet, wird...