Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that a new issue of the Annual Report of
the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka
University for the academic year 2012 [= ARIRIAB], Volume XVI (2013),
is now published. A PDF version of this issue will become available on our Web site later:
http://iriab.soka.ac.jp/orc/Publications/ARIRIAB/index_ARIRIAB.html
The contents are listed below:
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Annual Report of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University for the
Academic Year 2012, volume XVI,
2013, 400 pages + 77 plates, ISSN 1343-8980. Published by the IRIAB
(Director: Seishi Karashima; edited by Noriyuki Kudo)
RESEARCH ARTICLES:
Oskar von HINÜBER: Again on the Donation made by the Vinayadhara Dhammasena and on Other
Inscriptions from Phanigiri [8 figures], pp. 3-12.
Oskar von HINÜBER and Peter SKILLING: Two Buddhist Inscriptions from Deorkothar (Dist. Rewa,
Madhya Pradesh) [16 figures], pp. 13-26.
Seishi KARASHIMA: Two Inscriptions in Brāhmī and Kharoṣṭhī [10 figures], pp. 27-28.
Petra KIEFFER-PÜLZ: Buddhist Nuns in South India as Reflected in the Andhakaṭṭhakathā and in
Vajrabuddhi’s Anugaṇṭhipada, pp, 29-46.
Seishi KARASHIMA: Manuscript Fragments of the Prātimokṣasūtra of the Mahāsāṃghika
Lokottaravādin)s (2) [75 figures], pp. 47-90.
Noriyuki KUDO: The Karmavibhaṅgopadeśa: A Transliteration of the Nepalese Manuscript A (5), pp. 91-96.
Harry FALK and Seishi KARASHIMA: A first-century Prajñāpāramitā manuscript from Gandhāra –
parivarta 5 (Texts from the Split Collection 2) [2 figures], pp. 97-169.
Seishi KARASHIMA: Was the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā compiled in Gandhāra in Gāndhārī?, pp. 171-188.
Seishi KARASHIMA: On the "Missing" Portion in the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā, pp. 189-192.
Peter SKILLING and SAERJI: The Circulation of the Buddhāvataṃsaka in India, pp. 193-216.
LI Xuezhu and Jundo NAGASHIMA: Maitreyavyākaraṇa, pp. 217-231.
YE Shaoyong: A Sanskrit folio of the Yuktiṣaṣṭikāvṛtti from Tibet [16 figures], pp. 233-240.
LI Xuezhu: Diplomatic Transcription of Newly Available Leaves from Asaṅga’s Abhidharmasamuccaya —Folios 1, 15, 18, 20, 23, 24—, pp. 241-253.
Noriyuki KUDO: A Newly Identified Manuscript of the Pāramitāsamāsa in the Gilgit Buddhist
Manuscripts, pp. 255-266.
Peter SKILLING and SAERJI: Candrakīrti and the Pūrvaśailas: A Note on Triśaraṇasaptati v. 51, pp. 267-272.
Seishi KARASHIMA: A Study of the Language of Early Chinese Buddhist Translations: A Comparison between the Translations by Lokakṣema and Zhi Qian, pp. 273-288.
Seishi KARASHIMA: The Meaning of Yulanpen 盂蘭盆 — “Rice Bowl” on the Pravāraṇā Day, pp. 289-305.
Haiyan Hu-von HINÜBER: The Case of the Missing Author: Who wrote the anonymous Epilogue to Faxian’s Foguoji?, pp.307-314.
Tatsushi TAMAI: Tocharian Udānālaṃkāra, pp. 315-336.
Isao KURITA: Gandhāran Art [57 figures], pp. 337-341.
Akira YUYAMA: A List of Writings With Brief Bibliographical Notes. Appendix: Curriculum Vitae — A
Succinct Autobiographical Record, pp. 343-390.
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KUDO Noriyuki
The International Reseach Institute for Advanced Buddhology
Soka University (http://iriab.soka.ac.jp/)
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Tokyo, JAPAN 192-8577
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