Abstract Xuanzang's Datang Xiyu ji has been and is notoriously used for the reconstruction
of South Asian history and the history of Buddhism in India. Very often Xuanzang's …

With utmost fanfare an international conference on the archaeology and culture of the
Kuṣāṇa period was convened in 1968 in Dushanbe, capital of the then-Soviet Republic of …

This dissertation investigates the northeast Indian Buddhist Monk, Dhyanabhadra (Zhikong,
Kor. Jigong, Sunyadisaya, ca. 1289-1364 CE). He began his more than a decade of study in …

Abstract The terms Hinayana (Theg-dman) and Mahayana (Theg-chen), meaning modest or
“lesser” vehicle and vast or “greater” vehicle, first appeared in The Sutras on Far-reaching …

During the fifth and early sixth centuries of the Common Era, certain titles and formulaic
expressions characteristic of Mahay ana Buddhism and even a few explicit references to the …

This study provides the first complete translation into a Western language of a fairly
unknown but yet important Chinese work, titled the Zhong tianzhu shewei guo qiyuan si …

It is a venerable academic tradition that Mahāvīra, the founder of Jainism known in the Pāli
literature as Nigantha Nātaputta, was a somewhat older contemporary of the Buddha. This …

In 1981, Edward Shils drew attention to the notion of" substantive" tradition as a way to think
through the ways in which people value past accomplishments and wisdom, as well as …

IN rent spite handbooks, of the fact the that Middle according Period to of most Indian
periodizations, Buddhism-and the in period most from cur-rent handbooks, the Middle …

Hermann Kulke undoubtedly, Aśoka (c. 268-232 bce) and Jayavarman Vii (1182-1220?),
two of the greatest rulers of india and southeast Asia were Buddhists by any definition …