dear Colleagues,<br><br>Prof Seishi Karashima has asked me to forward the following information:<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:16.0px Times">My newest monograph, A Critical Edition of Lokakṣema&#39;s Translation of the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā 道行般若經校注, is now available as a downloadable PDF from our website:</p>


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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:16.0px Times">The latest issue of the Annual Report of The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University will be also soon available from our website:</p>


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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:16.0px Times">This issue contains the following articles:</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:16.0px Times">Oskar von HINÜBER:</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 42.0px;line-height:12.0px;font:16.0px Times"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>Four Donations Made by Maṅgalahaṃsikā, Queen of Palola (Gilgit) [3 figures]: pp. 3-6</p>

<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:16.0px Times">Peter SKILLING and Oskar von HINÜBER:</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 42.0px;line-height:12.0px;font:16.0px Times"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>An Epigraphical Buddhist Poem from Phanigiri (Andhrapradesh) from the Time of Rudrapuruṣadatta [8 figures] : pp. 7-12</p>


<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:16.0px Times">Harry FALK:</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 42.0px;line-height:12.0px;font:16.0px Times">The ‘Split’ Collection of Kharoṣṭhī Texts [7 figures] : pp. 13-23</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:16.0px Times">Noriyuki KUDO:</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 42.0px;line-height:12.0px;font:16.0px Times">The <i>Karmavibhaṅgopadeśa</i>: A Transliteration of the Nepalese Manuscript A (3) : pp. 25-33</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:16.0px Times">SAERJI:</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 42.0px;line-height:12.0px;font:16.0px Times">More Fragments of the <i>Ratnaketuparivarta </i>(2) [8 figures (9 fragments)] : pp. 35-57</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:16.0px Times">Peter SKILLING:</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 42.0px;line-height:12.0px;font:16.0px Times">Note on the <i>Bhadrakalpika-sūtra </i>(II) : pp. 59-72</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:16.0px Times">Georges-Jean PINAULT:</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 42.0px;line-height:12.0px;font:16.0px Times">The Buddhas of the Fortunate Aeon in Old Turkic and Tocharian texts : pp. 73-80</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:16.0px Times">Tatsushi TAMAI:</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 42.0px;line-height:12.0px;font:16.0px Times">Transliterations of the Tocharian B <i>Udānālaṅkāra </i>Fragments in the Berlin Collection : pp. 81-125</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:16.0px Times">DUAN Qing:</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 42.0px;line-height:12.0px;font:16.0px Times">Some Fragments of the <i>Saṅghāṭa-sūtra </i>from the Xinjian Museum, Urumuqi [3 figures] : pp. 127-134</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:16.0px Times">Giuliana MARTINI:</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 42.0px;line-height:12.0px;font:16.0px Times">A Large Question in a Small Place: The Transmission of the <i>Ratnakūṭa </i>(<i>Kāśyapaparivarta</i>) in Khotan : pp. 135-183</p>

<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:16.0px Times">SAERJI:</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 42.0px;line-height:12.0px;font:16.0px Times">The Translations of the Khotanese Monk Śīladharma Preserved in the Tibetan bka’ ’gyur : pp. 185-222</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:16.0px Times">Haiyan Hu-von HINÜBER:</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 42.0px;line-height:12.0px;font:16.0px Times">Faxian’s (法顕 342-423) Perception of India: Some New Interpretation of His <i>Fuguoji </i>佛國記 [3 figures] : pp. 223-247 </p>

<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:16.0px Times">湯山　明 [Akira YUYAMA]:</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 42.0px;line-height:12.0px;font:16.0px Times">ロバート・ノックスのスリランカ — 楞伽島備忘襍記の雜學的余滴 (Miscellanea Philologica Buddhica: Anecdotal Gleanings [III]: Robert Knox and the Island of Laṅkā) : pp. 249-258</p>


<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:16.0px Times">湯山　明 [Akira YUYAMA]:</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 42.0px;line-height:12.0px;font:16.0px Times">マハーヴァストゥ・アヴァダーナ二題 (Miscellanea Philologica Buddhica: Marginal Anecdotage [II]: Two Topics on the Mahāvastu-Avadāna) : pp. 259-266</p>

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