First Volume of “Hualin Series on Buddhist Studies”

Production and Preservation of Buddhist Manuscripts in Central and East Asia

Edited by Ru ZHAN, Jinhua CHEN, Yun JI
Series: Hualin Series on Buddhist Studies I
ISBN: 978-9-81149-575-5
Publishing Date: 2020-12-31
Publisher: World Scholastic Publishers
Pages: 425
Format: Paperback
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Table of Contents

- Preface

1. Manuscript Network in Central and East Asia

- 1.1. Distribution and Preservation of the Shi Moheyan Lun 釋摩訶衍論 Texts in East Asia: Did They Read the Same Text?
  Jiyun Kim 金知妍
- 1.2. Glosses in Chinese and Japanese on Manuscript editions of Yijing’s Translation of the Suvarṇabhāsottama-sūtra from Dunhuang and Japan
  George A. Keyworth
- 1.3. An Investigation of the Relationship between Prince Shōtoku’s Shōmangyō-gisho and Two Dunhuang Buddhist Manuscripts: A Debate over Originality and Canonical Value
  Mark Dennis

2. Manuscript as Transmission Media

- 2.1. On Kambala’s Navaślokī and Its Chinese Translation
  Daisy Sze Yui Cheung 張思睿
- 2.2. On the Transmission of the Verse-text of Sa skya Paṇḍita’s Tshad ma rigs pa’i gter and the Rang ’grel-Auto-commentary
  Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp
- 2.3. The Manuscript Culture of Confucianism and Buddhism in Medieval China
  Tong Ling 童嶺

3. Technical Aspects of Manuscript Culture

- 3.1. Colophons by the Tōdaiji Monk Sōshō (1202–1278): The Threshold between Text and Paratext
  Asuka Sango
- 3.2. The Establishment of Mongolian Buddhist Collections: Highlights of Physical Appearance and Production Processes
  Sainbileg Byambadorj

4. Prayers and Rituals

- 4.1. Offerings and the Production of Buddhist Scriptures in Dunhuang during the Tenth Century
  Henrik H. Sørensen
- 4.2. The Discourse Record of Layman Ruru and Its Transformations in Canonical Liturgical Materials
  Alan Gerard Wagner
- 4.3. Prayers for Mediation: Thirteenth-Century Textual Culture between Kōya and Kamakura
  Brian Steininger

- Author Biographies