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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schlingloff, Dieter.

Franco, Eli

Zin, Monika

Lumbini International Research Institute.

Louis A. Duhring Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhist literature--History and criticism.

Buddhist literature.

Buddhism and culture.

Vedic literature--History and criticism.

Vedic literature.

Hinduism and culture.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

2 volumes (xxi, 1103) : illustrations ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Bhairahawa, Rupandehi : Lumbini International Research Institute, 2010.

Summary:

Contributed articles.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.

ISBN:

9789937553025

9937553024

OCLC:

690905696