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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. Brills 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 worlds 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
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