Dear Colleagues,

It is my pleasure to announce the publication of a special volume of the Bulletin of the Asia Institute with articles contributed in honor of Richard Salomon. Ordering information can be found on the Bulletin's website: http://www.bulletinasiainstitute.org/

Several contributions listed below in the Table of Contents (also attached as pdf) will be of interest to members of this list:

Bulletin of the Asia Institute 23 (2013)

Evo ṣuyadi: Essays in Honor of Richard Salomon’s 65th Birthday

Edited by Carol Altman Bromberg, Timothy J. Lenz, and Jason Neelis

Foreword by Timothy Lenz, Jason Neelis, and Andrew Glass

Michael Shapiro, "Richard Salomon: A Personal Tribute"

Mark Allon, "A Gāndhārī Version of the Story of the Merchants Tapussa and Bhallika"

Stefan Baums, "Inscribed Buddhist Tablets from Merv"

Daniel Boucher, "What Do We Mean by 'Early' in the Study of the Early Mahāyāna—and Should We Care?"

Robert L. Brown, “Telling the Story in Art of the Monkey’s Gift of Honey to the Buddha”

Collett Cox, "What’s in a Name? School Affiliation in an Early Buddhist Gāndhārī Manuscript"

Harry Falk, "Making Wine in Gandhara under Buddhist Monastic Supervision"

Andrew Glass, "Bha"

Paul Harrison, "Verses by Śāntideva in the Śikṣāsamuccaya: A New English Translation"

Jens-Uwe Hartmann, "The Foolish Cat and the Clever Mouse: Another Parable from an Unknown Story Collection""

Stephanie Jamison, "An Indo-Iranian Priestly Title Lurking in the Rig Veda? An Indic Equivalent to Avestan karapan"

Seishi Karashima,  "On Amitābha, Amitāyu(s), Sukhāvatī and the Amitābhavyūha"

Klaus Karttunen, "Gandhāra and the Greeks"

Timothy Lenz, "Ephemeral Dharma; Magical Hope"

Abdur Rehman, "A Note on the Etymology of Gandhāra"

Juhyung Rhi, "The Garuḍa and the Nāgī/Nāga in the Headdresses of Gandhāran

Bodhisattvas: Locating Textual Parallels"

Ludo Rocher and Rosanne Rocher, "Indian Epigraphy and the Asiatic Society: The First Fifty Years"

Gregory Schopen, "Regional Languages and the Law in Some Early North Indian Buddhist Monasteries and Convents"

Martin Schwartz, "Sārtha- and Other Caravan Words"

Jonathon Silk, "The Nature of the Verses of the Kāśyapaparivarta"

Nicholas Sims-Williams, "Some Bactrian Inscriptions on Silver Vessels"

Peter Skilling, "Prakrit Prajñāpāramitās: Northwest, South, and Center: Gleanings from Avalokitavrata and Haribhadra"

Ingo Strauch, "Inscribed Objects from Greater Gandhāra"

Michael Willis, "Avalokiteśvara of the Six Syllables: Locating the Practice of the 'Great Vehicle' in the Landscape of Central India"

Jason Neelis, Review of David Jongewaard, Elizabeth Errington, Richard Salomon, and Stefan Baums, Gandharan Buddhist Reliquaries



Jason Neelis

Wilfrid Laurier University