Buddhism among the Iranian Peoples of Central Asia
Dear Colleagues,
in the hope that this publication is of interest, Mauro
Maggi, Matteo De
Chiara and myself would like to inform the list of the
publication of a
volume of essays on Buddhism among the Iranian peoples of
Central Asia (the
title echoing the late Ronald Emmerick’s entries on the
subject published
in the The Cambridge history of Iran and the Encyclopædia
Iranica).
The volume has been jointly edited by the three of us and
includes the
papers read at the panel with the same title convened by Mauro
Maggi at the
XVIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist
Studies, held
at Dharma Drum Buddhist College in June 2011, as well as
articles
contributed by scholars who could not be accommodated into the panel
due to
time constraints or could not participate in the congress.
The
articles in the first two parts focus on linguistically Iranian
Buddhist
texts (Khotanese and Sogdian), while the third part comprises
contributions
dealing with non-Iranian sources (Tocharian and Chinese) that
are relevant to
the history of Buddhism in Khotan and among the Sogdians
and the
Tumshuqese.
Volume details:
Series: Multilingualism and
History of Knowledge vol. 1 (Sitzungsberichte
der philosophisch-historischen
Klasse vol. 848; Iranische Onomastik vol. 11)
Series editors: Jens E.
Brarvig, Markham J. Geller, Velizar Sadovski and
Gebhard Selz
Volume
title: Buddhism among the Iranian Peoples of Central Asia
Editors: Matteo De
Chiara, Mauro Maggi and Giuliana Martini
Publisher: Verlag der
Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Place of publication:
Vienna
Year of publication: 2013
ISBN13: 978-3-7001-7274-1
Pages: 383 +
6 tables
Format: 22,5x15cm, paperback
URL:
http://verlag.oeaw.ac.at/Buddhism-anong-the-Iranian-Peoples-of-Central-Asia
List
of contents:
Preface
Abbreviations
Part 1: Khotanese
texts
- Bodhisattva texts, ideologies and rituals in Khotan in the fifth
and
sixth centuries
(Giuliana Martini)
- The two recensions of the
Khotanese Sudhanāvadāna
(Matteo De Chiara)
- Mighty animals and
powerful women: on the function of some motifs from
folk literature in the
Khotanese Sudhanāvadāna
(Almuth Degener)
- Four more questions and
answers from the Khotanese Book of Vimalakīrti
(Mauro Maggi)
Part 2:
Sogdian texts
- Buddhist texts produced by the Sogdians in
China
(Yutaka Yoshida 吉田豊)
- The commentaries on the Vajracchedikā
Prajñāpāramitā among the Sogdian
fragments of the Berlin Turfan
collection
(Christiane Reck)
- Sanskrit and Chinese in Sogdian garb:
the transcription of Indic proper
names in the Sogdian Buddhist
texts
(Elio Provasi)
Part 3: Non-Iranian sources on Buddhism among
Iranian peoples
- On the Karmavācanā in Tocharian
(Hirotoshi Ogihara
荻原裕敏)
- The activities of Sogdian Buddhists in Kucha as observed in the
Tocharian
B secular documents
(Ching Chao-jung
慶昭蓉)
Plates
With our best wishes and season’s
greetings,
Dhammadinnā
(Giuliana
Martini)
………………..
Sāmaṇerī
Dhammadinnā
Library
and Information Center
Dharma Drum Buddhist College
Taiwan
