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.
Sonoda (2016), Pañcarakṣā dhāraṇī studies
Bhosekar ed. (2017), Dhāraṇī-saṃgraha
Atul Bhosekar (ed). 2017. Dhāraṇī-saṃgraha. Kṛtibodha series 6. New Delhi-02: National Mission for Manuscripts and New Bharatiya Book Corporation. 541 pp. ISBN 978938082947. ₹500. [official series site] [OCLC: 988267022]
Cubelic et al (2018), Historical Documents from Nepal and India
Simon Cubelic, Axel Michaels, Astrid Zotter (eds). 2018. Studies in Historical Documents from Nepal and India. Documenta Nepalica – Book Series 1. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing. ISBN 978-3-946054-70-2 (PDF), 978-3-946054-71-9. 535 pp. (Hardcover) DOI:10.17885/heiup.331.454 [PDF 🔓]
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Vergiani et al (2017), Indic MS Cultures
Vincenzo Vergiani et al, eds. December 2017. Indic Manuscript Cultures through the Ages. Material, Textual, and Historical Investigations. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. Studies in Manuscript Cultures 14. ISBN 978-3-11-054310-0. doi:10.1515/9783110543100 [PDFs 🔓]
Sferra & Luo, Materials for the study of the Paramārthasevā
Francesco Sferra and Luo, Hong (罗鸿). ‘Materials for the Study of the Paramārthasevā by Puṇḍarīka’. Forthcoming in Horst Lasic, Xuezhu Li (eds.), Sanskrit manuscripts in China II. Proceedings of a panel at the 2012 Beijing Seminar on Tibetan Studies, August 1 to 5. Beijing: China Tibetology Publishing House, pp. 231–244. URN: http://hdl.handle.net/11574/172757 [PDF]
Sinclair (2016), The appearance of tantric monasticism in Nepal
Iain Sinclair. 2016. ‘The appearance of tantric monasticism in Nepal: a history of the public image and fasting ritual of Newar Buddhism, 980-1380’. Monash University, Melbourne: PhD diss. 418 pp., 90 illustrations, 27 tables. DOI:10.4225/03/58ab8cadcf152
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Wollein (2017), The Mūl Dīpaṅkara shrine
Andrea Wollein. 2017. ‘An ethnographic study of the Mūl Dīpaṅkara shrine in Bhaktapur (Nepal): the relationship between people and place’. University of Vienna: M.A. thesis (Masterstudium Kultur u. Gesellschaft des neuzeitlichen Südasiens). 189 pp., 87 figures. URN: nbn:at:at-ubw:1-20536.38953.228466-1 [official notice] [author: facebook]
Abstract: This thesis presents locality specific research in the form of an ethnography that draws both from fieldwork and published scholarly literature. The inter-disciplinary research is contextualized within the wider field of South Asian Studies and pertains to Himalayan, Buddhist and Newar Studies as well as to Tibetology. It is specifically concerned with the socioreligious dimension of Newar Buddhist monasteries (Skrt. vihāra, New. bāhā and bahī), the Buddhist deity Dīpaṅkara and the configuration of the relationship between the two of them as found in the setting of the Mūl Dīpaṅkara shrine in Bhaktapur. Continue reading “Wollein (2017), The Mūl Dīpaṅkara shrine”
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]
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Note: A revised version of the author’s 2012 UC Berkeley dissertation.
Sinclair (2017), Nepālamaṇḍalābhyantara-gata-buddhavihāranāmāni
Sinclair, Iain (traduction Caroline Riberaigua). 2017. Nepālamaṇḍalābhyantaragata-buddhavihāra-nāmāni = Noms des monastères bouddhiques de la région du Népal. Salamandre, Collège de France. [PDF (en Français, ébauche, 5 mai)]
Extract: This unique manuscript provides a list of ‘Names of Buddhist Monasteries situated within the domain of Nepal’, as its title states. Eighty-five sites are documented, written in Devanagari script in three columns: Sanskrit name – identity of main image – Newar name. […] The manuscript was written for Sylvain Lévi by the Newar Buddhist pundit Siddhiharṣa Vajrācārya (1879–1952), according to its colophon. Most likely it was produced in 1922, a year when Lévi mentions meeting with Siddhiharṣa [1929:37] as he gathered manuscripts and visited monasteries on his second trip to Nepal. […]
