Dear Colleagues,

I would like to bring our new publication to your esteemed notice:

"Figurations of Time in Asia", edited by Dietrich Boschung and Corinna Wessels-Mevissen, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, München [/Paderborn], 2012 (Morphomata 4) [http://www.fink.de/katalog/titel/978-3-7705-5447-8.html].

With kind regards,
Corinna Wessels-Mevissen
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CONTENTS

Dietrich Boschung: Preface

Corinna Wessels-Mevissen: Introduction

Time versus Non-time

Eugen Ciurtin: ‘Thus Have I Quaked’: The Tempo of the Buddha’s Vita and the Earliest Buddhist Fabric of Timelessness (The Buddha’s Earthquakes II)

Robert J. Del Bontà: Existing In and Out of Time: Kāla or Akāla in Jaina Iconography

Point in Time versus Course of Time

Gerd J.R. Mevissen: Figurations of Time and Protection: Sun, Moon, Planets and Other Astral Phenomena in South Asian Art

Ryōsuke Ōhashi: The Concept of Time According to Zen Master Dōgen: “A Pine Tree Is Also Time, A Bamboo Is Also Time”

E.P. Wieringa: A Monument Marking the Dawn of the Muslim Era in Java: Chronicles and Chronograms on the Grand Mosque of Demak

Béla Kelényi: The Representation of Astrological Knowledge in the Cult of the Tibetan Prayer Flag

Cyclic Time

Karl-Heinz Golzio: The Calendar Systems of Ancient India and Their Spread to Southeast Asia

Joachim K. Bautze: Time of the Maharajas as Reflected in Indian Painting from Kota

Images of Time

Christoph Emmrich: Piling Up Bones and Burning Down the World. Buddhist Literary Images to Think By and Time

Corinna Wessels-Mevissen: The Early Image of Śiva Naṭarāja: Aspects of Time and Space