dear Colleagues,

I am happy to pass along the following information on new publications available for free download:

First is the three volumes of Seishi Karashima's Die Abhisamacarika Dharmah Verhaltensregeln fuer buddhistische Moenche der Mahasamghika-Lokottaravadins:


http://iriab.soka.ac.jp/orc/Publications/BPPB/index_BPPB.html


Second is the latest volume of the journal of the Soka University institute (ARIRIAB):

http://iriab.soka.ac.jp/orc/Publications/ARIRIAB/index_ARIRIAB.html

I copy here the TOC from the latter, with excuses for the places in which the fonts have gone a bit bananas (NB: the plates with photos of the MSS studied are not included in the PDF version; also note that Prof Yuyama's papers are in Japanese):

Oskar von HINÜBER:
A Second Inscription from Phanigiri (Andhrapradesh): Dhaṃmasena’s Donation [4 figures] 3
Oskar von HINÜBER:
A Brief Note on the Tholaka Inscription [1 figure] 11
Harry FALK:
A new Kuṣāṇa Bodhisattva from the time of Huviṣka [2 figures] 13
Harry FALK and Seishi KARASHIMA:
A first-century Prajñāpāramitā manuscript from Gandhāra – parivarta 1
(Texts from the Split Collection 1) [4 figures] 19
DUAN Qing:
A Land Sale Contract in Kharoṣṭhī Script: National Library of China Collection,
No. BH5-3 [3 figures] 63
ZHANG Xueshan:
A Wooden Tablet in Kharoṣṭhī Script: National Library of China Collection,
No. BH5-6 [2 figures] 71
Haiyan Hu-von HINÜBER:
On the Relationship between asaṃbhoga and ukkhepanīyakamma 77
Vincent TOURNIER:
The Mahāvastu and the Vinayapiṭaka of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottaravādins 87
Noriyuki KUDO:
The Karmavibhaṅgopadeśa: A Transliteration of the Nepalese Manuscript A (4) 105
Peter SKILLING:
Notes on the Bhadrakalpika-sūtra (III): Beyond the Fortunate Aeon 117
Peter SKILLING and SAERJI:
‘O, Son of the Conqueror’: A note on jinaputra as a term of address in the 127
Buddhāvataṃsaka and in Mahāyāna sūtras
Robert KRITZER:
Tibetan Texts of Garbhāvakrāntisūtra: Differences and Borrowings 131
Peter ZIEME:
Some Notes on Old Uigur Translations of Buddhist Commentaries [2 figures] 147
Tatsushi TAMAI:
Tocharian Puṇyavantajātaka 161
Margarita I. VOROBYOVA-DESYATOVSKAYA:
Academician V. P. Vassilyev: the Tibetan and Chinese languages, and the history of 189
Buddhist philosophy
⁑Akira YUYAMA:
An Enlarged Version of the Uṣṇīṣa-Vijayā Dhāraṇī: The Text Transmitted in the Yüan Period 195
附記: 漢堡大學名譽教授施密特豪森博士漆秩貳華誕記念
#湯山 明 [Akira YUYAMA]:
元代流布佛頂尊勝陀羅尼考 — 新出西夏流傳本に關連して — 201
[Akira YUYAMA: Remarks on the Uṣṇīṣa-Vijayā Dhāraṇī Transmitted in the Yüan Period
— With Reference to the Newly Recovered Hsi-hsia Version —]
#湯山 明 [Akira YUYAMA]:
Miscellanea Philologica Buddhica: Anecdotal Gleanings (IV) 209
ハンブルクのインド学仏教学半世紀雑録 (On and Around the First Half Century of
Indian and Buddhist Studies in Hamburg)
#湯山 明 [Akira YUYAMA]:
Miscellanea Philologica Buddhica: Marginal Anecdotage (III): 235
無量寿経・阿弥陀経の梵本校訂版刊行を慶ぶ (Introducing a Critical Edition
of the Sukhāvatīvyūhasūtras)
#湯山 明 [Akira YUYAMA]:
Miscellanea Philologica Buddhica: Marginal Anecdotage (IV): 237
デンマーク王立図書館蔵梵語写本類目録刊行を慶んで (Congratulating Upon the
Publication of A Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts in Copenhagen)
#湯山 明 [Akira YUYAMA]:
Miscellanea Philologica Buddhica: Marginal Anecdotage (V): 241
pa“ataN§amaÅ / كلﯿﻴلة وﻭ دﺩمنة パンチャタントラのセム系文化圏への伝播 (Congratulating
Upon the Publication of A Comparative Study of the Indic and Semitic Narrative Literature)

Enjoy!

Jonathan Silk
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J. Silk
Instituut Kern / Universiteit Leiden
Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, LIAS
Johan Huizinga Building, Room 1.37
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The Netherlands