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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)
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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.

A Tide of Merit: Royal Donors, Tāmraparṇīya Monks, and the Buddha’s Awakening in 5th–6th-century Āndhradeśa (2018)
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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

Mahākāśyapa, His Lineage, and the Wish for Buddhahood: Reading Anew the Bodhgayā Inscriptions of Mahānāman (2014)
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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.

The Sutta on Understanding Death in the Transmission of borān Meditation from Siam to the Kandyan Court (2012)
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Crosby, K., Skilton, A., & Gunasena, A. (2012). The Sutta on Understanding Death in the Transmission of borān Meditation from Siam to the Kandyan Court. Journal of Indian Philosophy, 40(2), 177-198. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10781-011-9151-y

This article announces the discovery of a Sinhalese version of the traditional meditation (boran yogavacara kammatthana) text in which the Consciousness or Mind, personified as a Princess living in a five-branched tree (the body), must understand the... Read More about The Sutta on Understanding Death in the Transmission of borān Meditation from Siam to the Kandyan Court.

The art of non-asserting. Dialogue with Nagarjuna (2009)
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Gorisse, M.-H. (2009). The art of non-asserting. Dialogue with Nagarjuna. Lecture notes in computer science, 5378, 257-268. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92701-3_19

In his paper 'Nagarjuna as anti-realist', Siderits showed that it makes sense to perform a connection between the position of the Buddhist Nagarjuna and contemporary anti realist theses such as Dummett’s one. The aim of this paper is to argue that th... Read More about The art of non-asserting. Dialogue with Nagarjuna.

Karma, Social Collapse or Geophysics? Interpretations of suffering among Sri Lankan Buddhist in the immediate aftermath of the 2004 Asian tsunami (2008)
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Crosby, K. (2008). Karma, Social Collapse or Geophysics? Interpretations of suffering among Sri Lankan Buddhist in the immediate aftermath of the 2004 Asian tsunami. Contemporary Buddhism, 9(1), 53-76. https://doi.org/10.1080/14639940802312683

The article examines the varying interpretation of kamma and suffering among Sri Lankan Buddhists following the 2004 Asian tsunami, drawing on textual sources and interviews conducted during relief work in the days and weeks following the tsunami.

Gendered Symbols in Theravada Buddhism: Missed Positives in the Representation of the Female (2008)
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Crosby, K. (2008). Gendered Symbols in Theravada Buddhism: Missed Positives in the Representation of the Female. 玄奘佛學研究. Xuánzàng fóxué yánjiū, 9, 31-47

This paper looks at the symbolism drawing on feminine imagery found in Theravada Buddhist literature and culture over the centuries, observing that existing dichotomies notes between Theravada and Mahayana do not apply once a comparable range of peri... Read More about Gendered Symbols in Theravada Buddhism: Missed Positives in the Representation of the Female.