Research Catalog

Title

From Turfan to Ajanta : festschrift for Dieter Schlingloff on the occasion of his eightieth birthday / edited by Eli Franco and Monika Zin.

Publication

Bhairahawa, Rupandehi : Lumbini International Research Institute, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Schlingloff, Dieter.
• Franco, Eli
• Zin, Monika.
• Lumbini International Research Institute

Description

2 v. (xxi, 1103) : ill.; 29 cm.

Summary

Contributed articles.

Subject

• Buddhist literature > History and criticism
• Buddhism and culture
• Vedic literature > History and criticism
• Hinduism and culture

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• v. 1. Descent of the Buddha from the Heaven of the Trayastriṃśa gods -- one of the eight great events in the life of Buddha / Eva Allinger -- Einige Anmerkungen zu den Buddha- und Bodhisatva-Darstellungen am Oberen Indus / Ditte Bandini -- How to justify the spelling of the Buddhist hybrid Sanskrit term Bodhisatva? / Gouriswar Bhattacharya -- Pāśakatrayakrīḍā-Abschnitt des Krīḍākauśalya / Andreas Bock-Raming -- Sīmantônnayana and sindūr dān / Willem Bollée -- Spitzer manuscript and the Mahābhārata / John Brockington -- Daśaratha, Śyāma, a Brāhman Hunter, and Śrāvaṇa: The tale of four tales (with pictures) / Mary Brockington -- Spread of Sanskrit / Johannes Bronkhorst -- Nanā with crescent in Kuṣāṇa numismatic imagery / Martha L. Carter -- Pourquoi sept plutôt que quatre? Ètude comparée de la saptabhaṅgī et de la catuṣkoṭi / Anne Clavel -- Vedic notion of Skambha: with special reference to the Skambhasūktas of the Atharvaveda / Sadananda Das -- Place of Abhiṣeka visualization in the Yogalehbruch and related texts / Ronald M. Davidson -- Has Huichao been back to India? On a Chinese inscription on the back of a Pāla bronze and the chronology of Indian esoteric Buddhism / Max Deeg -- Ergänzungen zur Überlieferung des Śyāmajātaka / Mitsuyo Demoto und Michael Hahn -- Kunst und Kommerz, frühneuzeitlich: Indien in der Merfart (1509) des Welser-Agenten Balthasar Sprenger und in den Holzschnitten von Hans Burgkmair / Gita Dharampal-Frick -- Zwei Fragmente eines Sūtras über die Abnahme der Lebensdauer der Menschen / Siglinde Dietz -- Beitrag zur Frage nach der "Eigenständigkeit" uigurischer Kunst: Veränderte Parinirvāṇa-Darstellungen der Turfan-Oase / Jorinde Ebert -- Buddhist fasting lineages: a Thangka of the eleven-faced and thousand-armed Avalokiteśvara / Franz-Karl Ehrhard.
• Loblied auf Atiśa in dreißig Strophen / Helmut Eimer -- Wer war wer? Eine komplexe Wiedergeburtsgeschichte aus der Vasudevahiṇḍī des Saṅghadāsa / Anna Aurelia Esposito -- Metamorphosen: a valokiteśvara als Buddha / Adalbert Gail -- Cosmographs and cosmic Jinas / Phyllis Granoff -- Note on Bhūmi-sparśa-mudrā / Minoru Hara -- Apotropäisches von der Seidenstraße: eine zweite 'Löwenhandschrift' / Jens-Uwe Hartmann und Klaus Wille -- Epic narrative and sacrificial ritual: a note on the Royal consecration / Jan C. Heesterman -- Rethinking the cosmological Buddha / Angela Falco Howard -- Chinesische buddhistische Indienpilger als Grenzgänger: Ansätze zu einer neuen Deutung von Faxians Reisebericht Foguo Ji / Haiyan Hu-von Hinüber -- Steinheiligtümer im Dekkan-Hochland von Indien: Megalithen, Dolmen, Naturrituale -- ein Diskurs zur Sanskritisierung des Dekkan / Lydia Icke-Schwalbe -- Newly identified Sanskrit fragments of Mahāyāna scriptures from the Berlin Turfan collection / Seishi Karashima -- Historical sociolinguistics from India / Klaus Karttunen -- On the cultural significance of the Leaf of the Indian Lotus: introduction and uses / Thomas Kintaert -- Zu den buddhistischen literarischen Fachbegriffen sutta und suttanta / Konrad Klaus -- Pañcāvudha-Jātaka in der Tempelmalerei von Sri Lanka / Rolf Heinrich Koch -- Introduction to the Studies on Gandharan styles / Isao Kurita -- Garuḍa und die Nāgas: von Feindschaft zur Freundschaft unter buddhistischem Einfluss / Elas Legittimo.
• v. 2. In search of the Perfection of wisdom. A short note on the third narrative depicted in the Tabo Main Temple / Christion Luczanits -- Two Buddhist female images at Ellora / Geri H. Malandra -- ..., was zusammengehört. Verstreute Fragmente eines Blattes mit der Geschichte vom Mūṣikāhairaṇyika / Dieter Maue -- Stupendous monuments indeed of the superstition of former ages / Colmán McLaughlin -- Míngchēng, die Berühmte / Marion Meisig -- Palaces, kings, and sages: world rulers and world renouncers in early Buddhism / Michael W. Meister -- Painting the 'Wheel of Transmigration' (saṃsāra-cakra): a note on the textual transmission / Marek Mejor -- Jātakamālā scenes at the Buddhist Temple of Aihoḷe: an early experiment with ambiguity (śleṣa) Gudrun Melzer -- Reflections on some oddities of the Carakasaṃhitā / Jan Meulenbeld -- Mahāsāhasrapramarddanī pūrvvavad eva -- an ambiguous statement and its different interpretations / Gerd J.R. Mevissen -- Cakora Augen / Thomas Oberlies -- Narrative stone relief from Gandhāra: the story of the Unicorn saint / Nakao Odani -- Two unnoticed Indian Epigraphic allusions to Kashmir / Pratapaditya Pal -- Mapping the Asian journey of Vessantara Jataka: texts and pictorial images of the perfect generosity of Prince Vessantara / Ratan Parimoo -- Sternstunden buddhistischer Philosophie: von Nāgārjunas logisch konsistenten Konzepten der Mitte und der doppelten Leere zu Xuanzangs transzendentalem Konzept des bloßen Bewusstseins / Gregor Paul -- Back-to-back Buddha and Bodhisattva images in Gandharan art / Anna Maria Quagliotti -- Story of the Buddha and the Skull-Tapper in Kumtura painting (Xinjiang) / Arcangela Santoro -- Entzifferung der westtocharischen Überschriften zu einem Bilderzyklus des Buddhalebens in der "Treppenhöhle" (Höhle 110) in Qizil / Klaus T. Schmidt.
• 'Chi bdag gzhom pa Eine dem Kṛṣṇapāda zugeschriebene Abhandlung zur Erzielung eines langen Lebens / Johannes Schneider -- On the underside of a sacred space: some less appreciated functions of the Temple in classical India / Gregory Schopen -- Test sailing the ship of the teachings: hesitant notes on Kāśyapaparivarta 153-154 / Jonathan A. Silk -- Zur Bedeutung des Kamels im Saṃsāracakra von Ajanta und in der perischen Fassung der Parabel vom Mann im Brunnen / Georg von Simson -- Hinayana paintings of Ajanta and their conservation / M. Singh and R.S. Trambake -- Gotama's Epochal career / Peter Skilling -- To keep one's memory green -- Ajanta's major inscriptions / Walter M. Spink -- Triple ladder at Saṃkāśya: traditions about the Buddha's descent from Trayastriṃśa Heaven / John S. Strong -- Unique bust of a Gandhāran Kushan donor -- Gṛhī bodhisattvaḥ? / Katsumi Tanabe -- Aśvaghoṣa and the history of allegorical literature in India / Herman Tieken -- Late supplement to the first chapter of Veṇīdatta's Pañcatattvaprakāśa / Claus Vogel -- Some remarks on the agricultural terminology of the Artaśāstra / Gyula Wojtilla -- Evaluation of the chronology of the murals in Kizil, Kucha Oasis / Marianne Yaldiz -- Two Chinese meditation manuals in conjunction with Pozdneyev's Mongolian manual / Nobuyoshi Yamabe -- Toward a settlement archaeology in the early historic region Orissa -- plans and reality / Paul Yule -- Further remarks on the blockprint text of the Prajñā-pāramitā-ratna-guṇa-saṃcaya-gāthā from Turfan / Akira Yuyama -- Brahmanische Asketengräber / Monika Zin.

ISBN

• 9789937553025 (set)
• 9937553024 (set)

LCCN

^^2010347541

OCLC

• 690905696
• SCSB-11522154

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library