Tanaka, Kimiaki (田中公明). 2018. Mañjuvajramukhyākhyāna: Introduction, Romanized Sanskrit Text and Related Articles (Bonbun monju kongō kuden kenkyū 梵文「文殊金剛口伝」研究). Tokyo: Watanabeshuppan 渡辺出版, 2018.
McKeown (2018), Śāriputra and the End of Late Indian Buddhism
Arthur McKeown. 2018/6/30. Guardian of a Dying Flame: Śāriputra (c. 1335–1426) and the End of Late Indian Buddhism. Harvard Oriental Series 89. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 450 pp. ISBN 9780674984356. USD 50.00. [official site]
From the Abstract: This study describes later Indian Buddhism through a detailed examination of the life of Śāriputra (c. 1335–1426), the last known abbot of the Bodhgayā Mahāvihāra, whose very presence extends Indian Buddhism by two centuries. This work also provides a view into the legacy of Indian Buddhism in fifteenth-century Nepal, Tibet, and China. Continue reading “McKeown (2018), Śāriputra and the End of Late Indian Buddhism”
Slouber (2017), Early Tantric Medicine
Michael Slouber. 2017. Early Tantric Medicine. Snakebite, Mantras, and Healing in the Gāruḍa Tantras. Oxford University Press. 392 pp. ISBN: 9780190461812. [official site] [OCLC: 931476268]
Author website: garudam.info
Note: A revised version of the author’s 2012 UC Berkeley dissertation.
Gilgit MSS II.4 (2017), Further Mahāyānasūtras
Adelheid Mette, Noriyuki Kudo, Ruriko Sakuma, Chanwit Tudkeao and Jiro Hirabayashi, eds. 2017. Gilgit Manuscripts in the National Archives of India, Facsimile Edition. Volume II.4: Further Mahāyānasūtras. New Delhi: The National Archives of India and Tokyo: The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University 創価大学 国際仏教学高等研究所. xliv pp + 151 pp of plates. ISBN 978-4-904234-15-0.
Series official site: http://iriab.soka.ac.jp/publication/
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Abhayākaragupta (2015), Āmnāyamañjarī
Abhayākaragupta; 四川省藏文古籍搜集保护编务院 (编) (Sichuan Sheng Zang wen gu ji sou ji bao hu bian wu yuan), (ed). 2015. 藏区民间所藏藏文珍稀文献丛刊（精华版）[Rare and ancient Tibetan texts collected in Tibetan regions series: collection edition]. Vol. 1: Dpal yang dag par sbyor pa’i rgyud kyi rgyal po’i rgya cher ‘grel pa 第一卷《喜金刚吉祥正加行续王之注释》 [Śrīsaṃpuṭatantraṭīkā Āmnāyamañjarī]. Chengdu: Sichuan Nationalities Publishing House 四川民族出版社. 891 pp. 17 × 46 cm. ISBN: 9787540959746.
Note: Volume 1 is a facsimile of a complete bilingual Sanskrit-Tibetan MS, with Sanskrit in Bhujiṅmol script and Tibetan underneath in dbu med script.
Khentrul Rinpoché (2015), A Joyful Ocean of Precious Diversity
Shar Khentrul Jamphel Lodrö (ཤར་མཁན་སྤྲུལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་འཇམ་དཔལ་བློ་གྲོས); Joe Flumerfelt, ed. 2015. A Joyful Ocean of Precious Diversity: An unbiased summary of views and practices, gradually emerging from the teachings of the world’s wisdom traditions (སྣ་ཚོགས་ནོར་བུའི་རོལ་མཚོ། །རིས་མེད་འཛམ་གླིང་རིག་པའི་གཞུང་ལུགས་བྱུང་རིམ་ལྟ་གྲུབ་ཉིང་བསྡུས།།). Belgrave, Australia: Tibetan Buddhist Rimé Institute, ISBN: 9780994445308. US$24.95.
OCLC: 978641292. Official site: rimebuddhism.com
Contents:
Acknowledgments … vii
Editor’s Preface … ix
Introduction … 1
PART ONE: WORKING WITH DIVERSITY
1 The Nature of Belief … 15
2 The Rimé Philosophy … 29
PART TWO: THE WORLD'S BELIEF SYSTEMS
Systems with an Extrinsic Focus
3 Ancient Wisdom Traditions … 49
4 Hinduism … 67
5 Judaism … 89
6 Christianity … 107
7 Islam … 129 Continue reading “Khentrul Rinpoché (2015), A Joyful Ocean of Precious Diversity”
Acri ed. (2016), Esoteric Buddhism in Mediaeval Maritime Asia
Acri, Andrea (ed). 2016. Esoteric Buddhism in Mediaeval Maritime Asia: Networks of Masters, Texts, Icons. Nalanda-Sriwijaya Series 27. Singapore: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute. xii+468 pp. ISBN: 978-981-4695-09-1 (whole book, digital), ISBN 978-981-4695-08-4 (print). [PDF: Introduction, Bibliography, Index]
Official site: ISEAS. OCLC: 958714872. TOC: Andrea Acri at academia.edu. Review: newbooks.asia
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Robson (2016), The Kakawin Ghaṭotkacāśraya
Robson, Stuart (ed & tr). 2016. The Kakawin Ghaṭotkacāśraya by Mpu Panuluh. Javanese Studies: Contributions to the Study of Javanese Literature, Culture and History 3. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. x+332 pp. ISBN: 978-4-86337-224-5.
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11755/4282fb9a-29bb-4b73-9096-ed859e84fd5a. OCLC: 953238178
Bühnemann (2015), Śākyamuni’s Return Journey to Lumbinī (lumbinīyātrā)
Bühnemann, Gudrun. 2015. Śākyamuni’s Return Journey to Lumbinī ( lumbinīyātrā ): A Study of a Popular Theme in Newar Buddhist Art and Literature. Bhairawaha, Nepal: Lumbini International Research Institute. 108 pp. ISBN: 978-9937-2-9462-1
OCLC: 922971246. Vendor: amazon.com.
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Tanaka (2016), Samājasādhanavyavastholi of Nāgabuddhi
Kimiaki, Tanaka 田中公明(著). Bon-Zō taishō Anryū Shidai Ron kenkyū 梵蔵対照『安立次第論』研究 (Samājasādhana-Vyavastholi of Nāgabodhi/Nāgabuddhi–Introduction and Romanized Sanskrit and Tibetan Texts). Tokyo: Watanabe Publishing Co., Ltd. 渡辺出版, 2016. ISBN 978-4-902119-25-1
Distributor outside Japan: Biblia Impex (link). Worldcat: OCLC 964506485
Booknote: The first edition of the Samājasādhanavyavastholi by Nāgabuddhi, a treatise on tantric meditation in the tradition of the Guhyasamāja. The Sanskrit text, based on MSS NGMPP E 920/12 and Göttingen Xc14/30 is presented alongside its Tibetan translation (འདུས་པའི་སྒྲུབ་པའི་ཐབས་རྣམ་པར་བཞག་པའི་རིམ་པ་, Q 2675). There is an introduction in Japanese and English with a short preface in Tibetan.
