Religious Studies

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...

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...

A Concise Dictionary of Koranic Arabic

A ”Concise Dictionary of Koranic Arabic” is the first dictionary of its kind to appear in well over a century, i. e. after a stretch of time during which, thanks to the endeavors...

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-mtshoMonograph 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

»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...