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Kindheit, Jugend und frühe Jahre der Religionsstifter
Ält ere Quellen enthalten oft keine Kindheits- und Jugendges chichten der Stifter, weil diese Ereignisse im Vergleich zu den wundersamen... -
Buddhism and the Maritime Crossings
This article demonstrates how the spread of Buddhism through maritime routes was closely linked with commercial activities, and how these networks... -
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Wholesome Remembrance and the Critique of Memory—From Indian Buddhist Context to Chinese Chan Appropriation
Although the major part of the chapter’s investigation is on the mode and acts of remembering in Chan Buddhism, Wang opens with a survey of the... -
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The Case of the Sārasaṅgaha: Reflections on the Reuse of Texts in Medieval Sinhalese Pāli Literature
The Sārasaṅgaha is a Pāli text of XIIth–XIIIth century by the Sinhalese monk Siddhattha Thera. Its themes include the aspiration to become a Buddha,...
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Aśvaghoṣa and His Canonical Sources I: Preaching Selflessness to King Bimbisāra and the Magadhans (Buddhacarita 16.73–93)
Aśvaghoṣa’s Buddhacarita contains two sharply argumented critiques of the non-Buddhists’ self: one against Arāḍa Kālāma’s (proto-)Sāṅkhya version of...