Volumes 5 and 6

Studies in Central & East Asian Religions
Volume 5/6 DOUBLE ISSUE 1992–3

CONTENTS

Articles

Helmut EIMER: Der Katalog des Groβen Druckhauses von ’Bras-spuṅs aus
dem Jahre 1920 ……………………………………………………… 1 [download]

Adelheid HERRMANN-PFANDT: Ḍākinīs in Indo-Tibetan Tantric Buddhism:
Some Results of Recent Research ………………………………….. 45 [download]

David TEMPLEMAN: A Narrative Account of a Gaṇacakra, and the
Fulfilment of Guhyasamāja through Cakrasaṃvara ……………….…….. 64 [download]

Karenina KOLLMAR-PAULENZ: Utopian Thought in Tibetan Buddhism: A
Survey of the Śambhala Concept and its Sources ………………………… 78 [download]

Leon HURVITZ† “Being” and “Non-Being” in Ancient India and China … 97 [download]

Anna K. SElDEL†: Mountains and Hells: Religious Geography in Japanese mandara Paintings ………………………………………………… 122 [download]

Forum

The Sgra-sbyor-bam-po-gñis-pa on the Maṇḍala: “Seeing the Essence” (Pieter
C. Verhagen) ……………………………………………………… 134 [download]

The Use of shōmyō in Shingon Ritual (Michael Monhart) ……………….. 139 [download]

Again on the Subject of the Mingtang of the Empress Wu (Antonino Forte) 144 [download]

A Ming Dynasty Lama Temple in Lijiang, Yunnan Province (HHS) ……… 154, and

A New Series of Original Daoist Texts Published in the PRC (HHS) …….. 156, and

“Buddhist Lay Believers” CNWSSeminar—University of Leiden (HHS) .. 157, and

Seminar with Manfred Porkert on the Pingyao zhuan at the University of Oslo,
8–10th June 1993 (HHS) …………………………………………… 158, and

The 34th ICANAS, University of Hong Kong, 22nd–28th August 1993 (IA) 159, and

A New Critical Edition of the Works of Kūkai (IA) ……………………….. 162 [download]

Reviews

Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalaya. Edited by Charles Ramble and Martin
Brauen. (PKS) ……………………………………………………… 164, and

Stan Royal Mumford, Himalayan Dialogue: Tibetan Lamas and Gurung
Shamans in Nepal. New Directions in Anthropological Writing. (PKS) …………………………………………………………………………..…. 168, and

Adelheid Herrmann-Pfandt, Ḍākinīs. Zur Stellung und Symbolik des Weiblichen
im tantrischen Buddhismus. (PKS) ………………………………… 169, and

Allan G. Grapard, The Protocol of the Gods: A Study of the Kasuga Cult in
Japanese History. (F. Rambelli) ………………………………….. 172, and

Ochiai Toshinori, The Manuscripts of Nanatsu-dera: Recently Discovered
Treasure-House in Downtown Nagoya. (Kyoko Tokuno) …………. 175 [download]

Assimilation of Buddhism in Korea: Religious Maturity and Innovation in the
Silla Dynasty. Ed. Lewis R. Lancaster and C.S. Yu (HHS) ……………………. 181, and

From Benares to Beijing: Essays on Buddhism and Chinese Religion. Ed.
Koichi Shinohara and Gregory Schopen. (HHS) …………………. 184, and

Gerd Wädow: T’ien-fei hsien-sheng lu: “Die Aufzeichnungen von der
manifestierten Heiligkeit der Himmelsprinzessin”. (HHS) ……….. 188, and

Young Bong Oh, Wŏnhyo’s Theory of Harmonization. (HHS) …………… 189 [download]

Zwei deutsche Veröffentlichungen über den Shingon-Buddhismus (IA) … 192, and

Tominaga Nakamoto, Emerging from Meditation. Translated with an
introduction by Michael Pye. (IA) ………………………………… 198, and

Rita M. Gross, Buddhism after Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and
Reconstruction of Buddhism. (IA) ………………………………… 204, and

Brief Notices [download]

Zhongguo daojiao qigong yangsheng daquan, General editor, Li Yuanguo.
(HHS) ……………………………………………………………… 211

Zang chuan siyuan bihua [Wall-paintings in Tibetan Temples and
Monasteries]. (HHS) ………………………………………………. 211

Andreas Nehring, Rissho Kosei-kai: Eine neubuddhistische Religion in Japan,
(IA) ………………………………………………………………… 212