Dear list members,

With apologies for cross-posting, the editors are pleased to announce the following publication:
Minding the Buddha’s Business: Essays in Honor of Gregory Schopen. Edited by Daniel Boucher and Shayne Clarke. New York: Wisdom Publications.

Contents:
Preface & Introduction (Daniel Boucher and Shayne Clarke)

Part 1. Mahāyāna and Tantra Studies
The Visualization Stage (utpattikrama) and Its Workings (Yael Bentor)
Orality, Literacy, and the Cult of the Book in Early Mahāyāna Revisited (Daniel Boucher)
Practice in Text: Words and Wordplay in a Mahāyāna Sūtra (Jason McCombs)
Writing the Word of the Buddha: An Instance of Redaction Practice in a “Middle Period” Mahāyāna Sūtra (Andrew Skilton)


Part 2. Monasticism and Vinaya Studies
A Preliminary Survey of Viśākha(deva)’s Bhikṣuvinayakārikākusumasraj (Shayne Clarke)
Buddhist Monks, Outdated Technology, and Meditation (Kate Crosby)
Forms of Intertextuality and Lost Sanskrit Verses of the Buddhacarita: The Tridaṇḍaka and the Tridaṇḍamālā (Jens-Uwe Hartmann)
The Double Life of Gahapati (Stephanie W. Jamison)
A Preliminary Report on the Vinayasaṃgraha: *Viśeṣamitra’s Discussion Following Pāyantikā 72 (Ryōji Kishino)
Marginalia to an Endnote: More on the Tridaṇḍaka (Diego Loukota Sanclemente†)
Saṅghabheda: Monastic and Political (Patrick Olivelle)
The Evolution of the First Nissaggiya-pācittiya and the Bodhisattvabhūmi (Shizuka Sasaki)


Part 3. Epigraphical and Art Historical Studies
King Pūrṇavarman’s Fiery Feet (Robert L. Brown)
Making Room for the Buddha: The Rise of the Buddhist Image Cult at the Kānherī Caves (Robert DeCaroli)
Sambhoga-grāma in the Jetavanārāma Sanskrit Inscription (Petra Kieffer-Pülz)
Art and Practice in a Fifth-Century Indian Buddhist Cave Temple: A New Identification of an Old Mahāyāna Painting at Ajaṇṭā (Nicolas Morrissey)
The Visuality of Sukhāvatī, Chinese Depictions, and Early Indian Images (Juhyung Rhi)
Schism and Sectarian Conflicts as Revealed—and Concealed—in Indian Buddhist Inscriptions (Richard Salomon)

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Best,
Shayne Clarke
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Department of Religious Studies
McMaster University
https://mcmaster.academia.edu/ShayneClarke