Was the Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra 大般涅槃經 T7 Translated by ‘Faxian’?: An Exercise in the Computer-Assisted Assessment of Attributions in the Chinese Buddhist Canon [PDF]
In the Taishō canon, the Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra 大般涅槃 經 T no. 7 is attributed to Faxian 法顯. However, on the basis of an examination of reports in the catalogues about various Chinese versions of the ‘mainstream’ Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra, Iwamatsu Asao 岩松浅夫 ...
Michael Radich
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Canons in Context: A History of the Tibetan Buddhist Canon in the Eighteenth Century [PDF]
In the eighteenth century, emperors, local rulers, and religious leaders funded and supervised massive efforts to print the Tibetan Buddhist Canon (the Bka’ ’gyur and Bstan ’gyur) using engraved wood-blocks. My dissertation examines the historical and cultural contexts of these publishing projects in order to understand Tibetan collections of scripture
Benjamin J. Nourse
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Texts and Ritual: Buddhist Scriptural Tradition of the Stūpa Cult and the Transformation of Stūpa Burial in the Chinese Buddhist Canon [PDF]
Chinese translations of Buddhist sūtras and Chinese Buddhist literature demonstrate how stūpas became acknowledged in medieval China and how clerics and laypeople perceived and worshiped them.
Wen Sun
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The Book as a Generative Agent: The Buddhist Canon as a Community Member in Book Procession Rituals of the Himalayas [PDF]
Amy Holmes‐Tagchungdarpa
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Aspects of Indra in the Early Buddhist Canon
Seishi Karashima
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Ryukai Mano
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Schrödinger's Doctrine of Identity: On the Role of Advaita Vedānta in Erwin Schrödinger's Thought. [PDF]
Ever since Erwin Schrödinger learned about Indian thought through Arthur Schopenhauer, it occupied a visible role in both his published writings and personal books. Schrödinger called for a “blood transfusion” of Indian thought into the West and, in one notebook, construed the Upaniṣadic slogan “Brahman = Atman” as the “closest thing to the truth ...
Latten TMK.
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Morphology of Gathas in the Chinese Buddhist Canon
Takanobu SAITŌ
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The Philosophy of Desire in the Buddhist Pali Canon
David Webster explores the notion of desire as found in the Buddhist Pali Canon. Beginning by addressing the idea of a 'paradox of desire', whereby we must desire to end desire, the varieties of desire that are articulated in the Pali texts are examined.
David Webster
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Sectarian Buddhist Canons as Modern Scripture
Mark L. Blum
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