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A debt to Godai’in Annen: Taimitsu and the yogin consecration (2025)
Book Chapter
Dolce, L. (2025). A debt to Godai’in Annen: Taimitsu and the yogin consecration. In Ō. R. S. K. K. R. K. Ōkubo Ryōshun sensei koki kinen ronbunshū kankōkai (Ed.), Tendaigaku to shoshisō 天台学と諸思想 (756-704). Hōzōkan

A Sutra as a Notebook? Printing and Repurposing Scriptures in Medieval Japan (2023)
Journal Article
Dolce, L. (2023). A Sutra as a Notebook? Printing and Repurposing Scriptures in Medieval Japan. Ars orientalis, 52, 40-74. https://doi.org/10.3998/ars.3987

This study considers how printed scriptures were repurposed in medieval Japan through manuscript interventions. My starting point is the so-called Chū Hokekyō (Annotated Lotus Sutra), a copy of the Lotus Sutra probably printed in the Nara area and ow... Read More about A Sutra as a Notebook? Printing and Repurposing Scriptures in Medieval Japan.

“This is The Very Place!”: Shi Daoxuan 釋道宣 (c. 596–667) and The Creation of Buddhist Sacred Sites in China (2022)
Journal Article
Nicol, J. (2022). “This is The Very Place!”: Shi Daoxuan 釋道宣 (c. 596–667) and The Creation of Buddhist Sacred Sites in China. East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, 54(2), 200-237. https://doi.org/10.1163/26669323-bja10003

Scholars such as John Strong and James Robson have laid firm foundations for the study of the development of Buddhist sacred geography, highlighting the role of relics, stupas and the importance of pre-Buddhist sites of religious significance. Their... Read More about “This is The Very Place!”: Shi Daoxuan 釋道宣 (c. 596–667) and The Creation of Buddhist Sacred Sites in China.

Tōhoku 217 Śrīguptasūtra (2021)
Digital Artefact
(2021). Tōhoku 217 Śrīguptasūtra. [Website]. Fremont, CA

The Śrīgupta sūtra is the story of a plot against the life of the Buddha. Śrīgupta, a wealthy young Jain disciple, at his guru's instigation invites the Buddha to lunch at his house in Rājagṛha, where he secretly prepares a fire-trap and a poisoned m... Read More about Tōhoku 217 Śrīguptasūtra.

A Tide of Merit: Royal Donors, Tāmraparṇīya Monks, and the Buddha’s Awakening in 5th–6th-century Āndhradeśa (2018)
Journal Article
Tournier, V. (2018). A Tide of Merit: Royal Donors, Tāmraparṇīya Monks, and the Buddha’s Awakening in 5th–6th-century Āndhradeśa. Indo-Iranian Journal, 61(1), 20-96. https://doi.org/10.1163/15728536-06101003

Stressing the importance of 5th–6th-century copper-plate charters connected to the Viṣṇukuṇḍin dynasty for the history of Buddhism in Āndhradeśa, this article demonstrates that, contrary to earlier scholarly assumptions, and despite the paucity of ar... Read More about A Tide of Merit: Royal Donors, Tāmraparṇīya Monks, and the Buddha’s Awakening in 5th–6th-century Āndhradeśa.

Review of: Gérard Fussman, Choix d’articles. Réunis par Denis Matringe, Éric Ollivier et Isabelle Szelagowski. (Réimpressions, no. 14) 598 pp. Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient, 2014. (2017)
Journal Article
Tournier, V. (2017). Review of: Gérard Fussman, Choix d’articles. Réunis par Denis Matringe, Éric Ollivier et Isabelle Szelagowski. (Réimpressions, no. 14) 598 pp. Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient, 2014. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 80(1), 169-70. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X17000295

Tōhoku 83 : Bhadrapālaśreṣṭhiparipṛcchāsūtra : The Questions of Bhadrapāla the Merchant = ཚོང་དཔོན་བཟང་སྐྱོང་གིས་ཞུས་པ། (2017)
Digital Artefact
(2017). Tōhoku 83 : Bhadrapālaśreṣṭhiparipṛcchāsūtra : The Questions of Bhadrapāla the Merchant = ཚོང་དཔོན་བཟང་སྐྱོང་གིས་ཞུས་པ།. [Website]. New York

In The Sūtra of the Master Craftsman Bhadrapāla's Questions, the Buddha’s principal interlocutor is a wealthy merchant who asks him to explain what consciousness is, and what happens to it when one dies and is reborn. In its characterization of cons... Read More about Tōhoku 83 : Bhadrapālaśreṣṭhiparipṛcchāsūtra : The Questions of Bhadrapāla the Merchant = ཚོང་དཔོན་བཟང་སྐྱོང་གིས་ཞུས་པ།.

Mahākāśyapa, His Lineage, and the Wish for Buddhahood: Reading Anew the Bodhgayā Inscriptions of Mahānāman (2014)
Journal Article
Tournier, V. Mahākāśyapa, His Lineage, and the Wish for Buddhahood: Reading Anew the Bodhgayā Inscriptions of Mahānāman. Indo-Iranian Journal, 57(1-2), 1-60. https://doi.org/10.1163/15728536-05701001

This article investigates the religious message of a set of inscriptions from Bodhgayā issued by Sinhalese monks in the 5th and 6th centuries ce. The long inscription of the hierarch Mahānāman, in particular, allows an in-depth understanding of this... Read More about Mahākāśyapa, His Lineage, and the Wish for Buddhahood: Reading Anew the Bodhgayā Inscriptions of Mahānāman.

Monastic and Lay Traditions in North-Eastern Tibet (2013)
Book
Dhondup, Y., Pagel, U., & Samuel, G. (Eds.). (2013). Monastic and Lay Traditions in North-Eastern Tibet. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004256422

In recent years, the Sino-Tibetan frontier regions have attracted increasing scholarly interest. The region of Rebkong in Qinghai province is of particular significance because of its unique location on the Sino-Tibetan borderland, its multi-ethnic p... Read More about Monastic and Lay Traditions in North-Eastern Tibet.