Studies in Central & East Asian Religions
Volume 9 1996
CONTENTS
Articles
Xu WENKAN: The Tokharians and Buddhism……………………………………………… 1 [download]
Peter SCHWEIGER: Schwarze Magie im tibetischen Buddhismus…………………….… 18 [download]
Franz-Karl EHRHARD: Political and Ritual Aspects of the Search for Himalayan Sacred
Lands………………………………………………………………………………. 37 [download]
Gabrielle GOLDFUβ: Binding Sūtras and Modernity: The Life and Times of the Chinese Layman Yang Wenhui (1837–1911)………………………………………………. 54 [download]
Review Article
Hubert DECLEER: Tibetan “Musical Offerings” (Mchod-rol): The Indispensable Guide… 75 [download]
Forum
Lucia DOLCE: Esoteric Patterns in Nichiren’s Thought…………………………………. 89 [download]
Boudewijn WALRAVEN: The Rediscovery of Uisang’s Ch’udonggi…………………… 95, and
Per K. SØRENSEN: The Classification and Depositing of Books and Scriptures Kept in the
National Library of Bhutan……………………………………………………….. 98, and
Henrik H. SØRENSEN: Seminar on the Zhiyi’s Mohe zhiguan in Leiden……………… 104 [download]
Reviews
Schuyler Jones: Tibetan Nomads: Environment, Pastoral Economy and Material Culture
(Per K. Sørensen)…………………………………………………………………. 106, and
[Ngag-dbang skal-ldan rgya-mtsho:] Shel dkar chos ’byung. History of the “White Crystal”.
Religion and Politics of Southern La-stod. Translated by Pasang Wangdu and
Hildegard Diemberger (Per K. Sørensen)………………………………………… 108, and
Blondeau, Anne-Marie and Steinkellner, Ernst (eds.): Reflections of the Mountains. Essays
on the History and Social Meaning of the Cult in Tibet and the Himalayas (Per K.
Sørensen)…………………………………………………………………………. 110, and
Wisdom of Buddha: The Saṃdhinirmocana Mahāyāna Sūtra (Essential Questions and Direct Answers for Realizing Enlightenment). Transl. by John Powers (Henrik H. Sørensen)………………………………………. 112, and
Japanese Popular Deities in Prints and Paintings: A Catalogue of the Exhibition (Henrik H.
Sørensen)…………………………………………………………………………. 113, and
Stephen F. Teiser, The Scripture on the Ten Kings and the Making of Purgatory in Medieval
Chinese Buddhism (Henrik H. Sørensen) ……………………………………….. 114, and
Charles Holcombe, In the Shadow of the Han: Literati Thought and Society at the Beginning
of the Southern Dynasties (Henrik H. Sarensen)………………………………… 121, and
Beata Grant, Mount Lu Revisited: Buddhism in the Life and Writings of Su Shih (Henrik H.
Sørensen)…………………………………………………………………………. 124 [download]
Ruth W. Dunnell, The Great State of White and High: Buddhism and State Formation in
Eleventh-Century Xia (Henrik H. Sørensen)…………………………………….. 127, and
Latter Days of the Law: Images of Chinese Buddhism 850–1850. Ed. Marsha Weidner (Henrik H. Sørensen)……………………………………………………………… 130 [download]
Hubert Durt, Problems of Chronology and Eschatology: Four Lectures on the Essay on Buddhism by Tominaga Nakatoma [1715–1746] (Ian Astley)………………………………… 133, and
Eastern Canons: Approaches to the Asian Classics. Edited by Wm. Theodore de Bary and Irene Bloom (Gunner B. Mikkelsen)…137 [download]