Sanskritic civilization · Tantric studies · Newar & Nusantaran Buddhism
Trent Thomas Walker. 2018. ‘Unfolding Buddhism: Communal Scripts, Localized Translations, and the Work of the Dying in Cambodian Chanted Leporellos.’ PhD diss., University of California, Berkeley. 2+xix+1628 pp. [PDF view] [dissertation website] [author’s website]
Erin Hillary Epperson. 2017. ‘Kālidāsa in Tibet: Messenger Poetry in Translation.’ PhD diss., University of Chicago. [repo (URI): hdl.handle.net/11417/527] [PDF]. 298 pp. Continue reading “Epperson (2017), Kālidāsa in Tibet”
Chen, Shuai. 2018. ‘Rethinking Indian Buddhist Logic in Tang China: An Analysis and Translation of the Sādhana Section of Kuiji’s Commentary on the Nyāyapraveśa‘. PhD diss., Universität Heidelberg. 405 pp. [DOI: 10.11588/heidok.00024097] [PDF]
From the abstract: […] a study on the Yinming ru zhengli lun shu 因明入正理論疏 by Kuiji 窺基 (632–682). […] Continue reading “Chen (2018), Indian Buddhist Logic in Tang China”
Sugiki, Tsunehiko (杉木 恒彦). 2018. ‘Rethinking the Buddhist Discourse on Holy Sites in the Ḍākārṇava: A Critical Edition and a Translation of the Sanskrit Ḍākārṇava Chapter 50-3′. WIAS [Waseda Institute for Advanced Studies] Research Bulletin (早稲田大学高等研究所紀要) No.10, 39–90. [repo] [PDF]
Sugiki, Tsunehiko. 2018. ‘The Sādhana of the “Adamantine Body” Maṇḍala ―― A Critical Edition and a Translation of the Sanskrit Ḍākārṇava Chapter 50-8′. Journal of Chisan Studies (智山学報) No.67, 45–87.
author: academia.edu
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 Studies in Historical Documents from Nepal and India.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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Vincent Eltschinger. 2017. ‘Why did the Buddhists adopt Sanskrit?’ Open Linguistics 3 (Topical Issue on Historical Sociolinguistic Philology, ed. by Chiara Barbati and Christian
Gastgeber), pp.308–326. doi:10.1515/opli-2017-0015 [PDF 🔓]
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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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.
Luigi, Rogora. 2015-2016. ‘La Luce Nella Valle: Lo Svayambhūpurāṇa nel Buddhismo Nepālese’. Università degli Studi di Milano, Facoltà di Studi Umanistici. Corso di Laurea Triennale in Lettere. iv+167 pp. [academia.edu]
Note: Contains an annotated Italian translation of Svayambhūdharmadhātusamutpattinidānakathā 1.1–63.
Lee, Hsu-Feng. 2017. ‘A Study Of The Śarīrārthagāthā In The Yogācārabhūmi‘. PhD diss., University of Sydney. 290 pp. URI: [PDF]
From the Abstract: The Śarīrārthagāthā (Tǐyì qiétā 體義伽他;‘dus pa’i don gyi tshigs su bcad pa) is a collection of canonical verses with accompanying commentary in the Yogācārabhūmi (Yúqié shī dì lùn 瑜伽師地論; rnal ‘byor spyod pa’i sa), an encyclopedic text of India’s major Mahāyāna philosophical school. […] Continue reading “Lee (2017), The Śarīrārthagāthā”