Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Volume One

Literature and Languages

Oskar von Hinüber, Vincent Eltschinger (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

1064 Seiten

2015
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-28343-5 (ISBN)

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Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism is the first comprehensive academic reference work devoted to the plurality of Buddhist traditions across Asia, offering readers a balanced and detailed treatment of this complex phenomenon in six thematically arranged volumes: literature and languages (I, publ. 2015), lives (II, publ. 2019), thought (III), history (IV), life and practice (V), index and remaining issues (VI).

Each volume contains substantial original essays by many of the world’s foremost scholars, essays which not only cover basic information and well-known issues but which also venture into areas as yet untouched by modern scholarship. An essential tool for anyone interested in Buddhism.

An online resource will provide easy access to the encyclopedia’s ever-growing corpus of information.

Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism is under the general editorial control of Jonathan Silk (Leiden University, editor-in-chief), Richard Bowring (University of Cambridge) and Vincent Eltschinger (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris). In addition, each volume has a dedicated board of specialist editors.

Jonathan Silk is professor in the study of Buddhism at Leiden University. His research centers on the scriptural literature of Indian Buddhism. Vincent Eltschinger has been a research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2003. His research focuses on the genealogy and the religious background of late Indian Buddhist philosophy. Among his numerous publications, mention can be made of Buddhist Epistemology as Apologetics (Vienna, 2014) and a series of articles dedicated to the sources and polemical targets of Aśvaghoṣa. Oskar von Hinüber is professor emeritus at the Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg and ordinary member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz, foreign ordinary member (Associé étranger) of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris, and corresponding member of the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna. He has mainly published in the fields of ancient Indian cultural history, historical grammar and literature of Middle Indo-Aryan languages, the Buddhist manuscript tradition, and epigraphy.

Preliminary Table of Contents
Volume I

Scriptural:

General: Canonicity; Tripiṭaka; Āgama / Nikāya; Abhidharma; Dazangjing; Kanjur; Tanjur

Mahāyāna Sūtra Literature: Overview; Buddhāvataṃsaka; Dhāraṇī Sūtras; Laṅkāvatāra; Lotus Sūtra; Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra; Prajñāpāramitā; Pure Land Sūtras;Samādhirāja; Sandhinirmocana; Suvarṇabhāsottama; Tathāgatagarbha; Vimalakīrtinirdeśa; Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha; Mahāyāna Sūtra Anthologies

Tantric Literature: Overview; Catuṣpītha; Guhyasamāja; Hevajra; Kālacakra; Mañjuśrīnāmasaṃgīti; Śamvara; Sarvabuddhasamāyogaḍākinījālaśaṃvara; Sarvavtathāgatatattvasaṃgraha; Vairocanābhisaṃbodhi; Rnying ma; Gter ma

Vinaya Literature; Vinayas; Vinaya Commentarial Literature in Pali; Monastic Organizational Guidelines

Nonscriptural:
Commentary: Early Scripture Commentary; Abhidharma Commentarial Literature; Mahāyāna Sūtra Commentaries: East Asia; Tantric Commentaries: India; Rishukyo and Its Commentarial Tradition; Putixinlun

Belles Lettres: Narratives: South Asia; Poetry: South Asia; Narratives: Tibet; Poetry: China: Pre-Song; Poetry: China: Song and After; Narratives and Drama: China; Narratives: Japan; Poetry: Japan; Korean Buddhist Literature in Korean; Korean Buddhist Literature in Chinese; Narrative: Southeast Asia

Dramatic Works: South Asia; Tibet; Central Asia; Japan; Philosophical Literature; India; Tibet; China; Korea; Japan

Ritual Texts: South Asia; New Tantras (Gsar ma); Rnying ma; Korea; Chinese (Esoteric) Buddhist Liturgical Manuals from Dunhuang; Fang Yankou Rites; Chinese Tantric Texts in Court Circles; Tantric Ritual Manuals in East Asia; Chan Literature

Biography and Hagiography: Epistolary Literature; Tibet; Japan

Teaching Literature: Tantric Prakaraṇas; Debate Literature: Japan; Doxography: Tibet; Iconography

Historiography: South Asia; Tibet; China; Japan; Thailand and Laos; Burma

Local Literatures: Tamil; Nepal; Bön; Sogdian; Tangut/Xixia; Khotanese; Uighur; Mongolia; Japan; Yunnan; Sri Lanka; Mainland Southeast Asia

Languages: Indic; Tibetan; Central Asian Languages; Chinese; Southeast Asian Languages

Physical Bases: Manuscripts and Printing: South, Southeast, and Central Asia; Manuscripts and Printing: Tibet; Manuscripts and Printing: East Asia; Epigraphy: South Asia; Epigraphy: Southeast Asia; Epigraphy: Tibet and Central Asia; Epigraphy: East Asia

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.10.2015
Reihe/Serie	Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism ; 29-1
Mitarbeit	Chef-Herausgeber: Jonathan Silk
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	2455 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-10	90-04-28343-9 / 9004283439
ISBN-13	978-90-04-28343-5 / 9789004283435
Zustand	Neuware