Ref ID:	21341
Ref Type:	Book (Edited)
Editors:	Silk, Jonathan A. Hinüber, Oskar von Eltschinger, Vincent
Title:	Brill's encyclopedia of Buddhism
Date:	2015
Publisher:	Brill
Notes:	Description: It has been evident for many years that no authoritative, reliable, and up-to-date reference work on Buddhism yet exists in any language. Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism aims to fill that gap with a comprehensive work, presented in two phases: a series of six thematic volumes including an index volume, addressing issues of global and regional importance, to be followed by an ever-expanding online resource providing access both to synthetic and comprehensive treatments and to more individuated details on persons, places, texts, doctrinal matters, and so on. Illustrated with maps and photographs, and supplemented with extensive online resources, the print version of the thematic encyclopedia will present the latest research on the main aspects of the Buddhist traditions in original essays written by the world’s foremost scholars. The encyclopedia aims at a balanced and even-handed view of Buddhist traditions, presenting the most reliable accounts of well-known issues and filling gaps in heretofore-neglected areas. In doing so, it emphasizes that Buddhism is simultaneously constituted by a plurality of regional traditions and a far-reaching phenomenon spanning almost all of Asia, and more recently far beyond as well. Volume I, which will appear in 2015, surveys Buddhist literatures, scriptural and nonscriptural, and offers discussions of the languages of Buddhist traditions and the physical bases (manuscripts, epigraphy, etc.) available for the study of Buddhist literatures. Subsequent volumes will address issues of personages, communities, history, life and practice, doctrine, space and time, and Buddhism in the modern world. Contents: Scriptural: General: Canonicity Tripiṭaka Āgama / Nikāya Abhidharma Dazangjing Kanjur Tanjur Mahāyāna Sūtra Literature: Overview Buddhāvataṃsaka Dhāraṇī Sūtras Laṅkāvatāra Lotus Sūtra Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra Prajñāpāramitā Pure Land Sūtras Samādhirāja Sandhinirmocana Suvarṇabhāsottama Tathāgatagarbha Vimalakīrtinirdeśa Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha Mahāyāna Sūtra Anthologies Tantric Literature: Overview Catuṣpītha Guhyasamāja Hevajra Kālacakra Mañjuśrīnāmasaṃgīti Śamvara Sarvabuddhasamāyogaḍākinījālaśaṃvara Sarvavtathāgatatattvasaṃgraha Vairocanābhisaṃbodhi Rnying ma Gter ma Vinaya Literature Vinayas Vinaya Commentarial Literature in Pali Monastic Organizational Guidelines Nonscriptural: Commentary: Early Scripture Commentary Abhidharma Commentarial Literature Mahāyāna Sūtra Commentaries: East Asia Tantric Commentaries: India Rishukyo and Its Commentarial Tradition Putixinlun Belles Lettres: Narratives: South Asia Poetry: South Asia Narratives: Tibet Poetry: China: Pre-Song Poetry: China: Song and After Narratives and Drama: China Narratives: Japan Poetry: Japan Korean Buddhist Literature in Korean Korean Buddhist Literature in Chinese Narrative: Southeast Asia Dramatic Works: South Asia Tibet Central Asia Japan Philosophical Literature India Tibet China Korea Japan Ritual Texts: South Asia New Tantras (Gsar ma) Rnying ma Korea Chinese (Esoteric) Buddhist Liturgical Manuals from Dunhuang Fang Yankou Rites Chinese Tantric Texts in Court Circles Tantric Ritual Manuals in East Asia Chan Literature Biography and Hagiography: Epistolary Literature Tibet Japan Teaching Literature: Tantric Prakaraṇas Debate Literature: Japan Doxography: Tibet Iconography Historiography: South Asia Tibet China Japan Thailand and Laos Burma Local Literatures: Tamil Nepal Bön Sogdian Tangut/Xixia Khotanese Uighur Mongolia Japan Yunnan Sri Lanka Mainland Southeast Asia Languages: Indic Tibetan Central Asian Languages Chinese Southeast Asian Languages Physical Bases: Manuscripts and Printing: South, Southeast, and Central Asia Manuscripts and Printing: Tibet Manuscripts and Printing: East Asia Epigraphy: South Asia Epigraphy: Southeast Asia Epigraphy: Tibet and Central Asia Epigraphy: East Asia
Date Created:	2/10/2016
Volume:	1