Dear Colleagues,

The following monographs and Annual Report published recently by IRIAB may be of interest to list members:

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The Mahāvastu: A New Edition, vol. III, ed. by Katarzyna Marciniak (Bibliotheca Philologica et Philosophica Buddhica XIV,1)

ISBN 978-4-904234-18-1.

A PDF file will soon be made available at the following link: http://iriab.soka.ac.jp/en/publication/bppb.html

(2) 

Mahāyāna Texts: Prajñāpāramitā Texts (2), ed. by Seishi Karashima and Tatsushi Tamai, Tokyo 2019: The National Archives of India, New Delhi and The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University, Tokyo (Gilgit Manuscripts in the National Archives of India: Facsimile Edition, vol. II.2).

ISBN 978-4-904234-17-4.

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Annual Report of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University (= ARIRIAB), XXII (2019)

 

Bhikkhu ANĀLAYO: Pārājika Does Not Necessarily Entail Expulsion           3

DHAMMADINNĀ: Soreyya/ā’s double sex change: on gender relevance and Buddhist values 9

Petra KIEFFER-PÜLZ: “[If some]one says in this connection” The usage of etthāha in Pāli commentarial literature 35

Katarzyna MARCINIAK: Editio princeps versus an old palm-leaf manuscript Sa: Verses in the Mahāvastu revisited (II) 59

Seishi KARASHIMA and Katarzyna MARCINIAK: Sabhika-vastu 71

Seishi KARASHIMA and Katarzyna MARCINIAK: The story of Hastinī in the Mahāvastu and Fobenxingji jing 103

Peter SKILLING and SAERJI: Jātakas in the Bhadrakalpika-sūtra: A provisional inventory I 125

James B. APPLE: The Semantic Elucidation (nirukta) of Bodhisattva Spiritual Attainment: A Rhetorical Technique in Early Mahāyāna Sūtras 171

LIU Zhen: An Improved Critical Edition of Maitreyavyākaraṇa in Gilgit Manuscript 193

LU Lu: An Analogy of Pots in Dao di jing 道地經 and its Sanskrit Parallel 209

Péter-Dániel SZANTO: A Fragment of the Prasannapadā in the Bodleian Library 213

LI Xuezhu: Diplomatic Transcription of the Sanskrit Manuscript of the Abhidharmasamuccayavyākhyā 217

Jonathan A. SILK: Chinese Sūtras in Tibetan Translation: A Preliminary Survey 227

Mauro MAGGI: Bits and bites: the Berlin fragment bi 43 and Khotanese *druṣ- 247

Yutaka YOSHIDA: On the Sogdian articles 261

Tatsushi TAMAI: The Tocharian Maitreyasamitināṭaka 287

Peter ZIEME: A fragment of an Old Uighur translation of the Śatapañcāśatka 333

Isao KURITA: The Great Passing of the Buddha and Māra 345

M. Nasim KHAN: Studying Buddhist Sculptures in Context (I): The Case of a Buddha Figure from But Kara III, Gandhāra 347

Tadashi TANABE: Gandhāran Śibi-Jātaka Imagery and Falconry —Gandhāra, Kizil and Dunhuang–– 359

Haiyan Hu-von HINÜBER: From the Upper Indus to the East Coast of China: On the Origin of the Pictorial Representation of the Lotus Sūtra  377

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With best regards,

Seishi Karashima

Director, The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology (IRIAB) at Soka University, Tokyo, Japan 

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