Collection of essays 1993
Subtitle: Buddhism across boundaries : Chinese Buddhism and the western regions
By: [by Erik Zürcher, Lore Sander, and others]
Contributors: Foguang shan wen jiao ji jin hui; Hsi Lai University
Series: Collection of commentary and dissertation; Collection of commentary and dissertation
Publisher: Fo Guang Shan Foundation for Buddhist & Culture Education
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Sanchung, Taiwan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
Subjects: Buddhist literature; Congresses; Chinese Buddhist literature; Oriental philology
Other titles: Buddhism across boundaries : Chinese Buddhism and the western regions
Notes: Papers from a conference held Jan. 1993 at Hsi Lai Temple, Hacienda Heights, Calif., under the sponsorship of the Fo Kuang Shan Foundation for Buddhist & Culture Education and Hsi Lai University.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Buddhism across boundaries : the foreign input / Erik Zürcher; title: Early Prakrit and Sanskrit manuscripts from Xinjiang (second to fifth/sixth centuries C.E. : paleography, literary evidence and their relation to Buddhist schools / Lore Sander; title: Buddhist Sanskrit texts from Northern Turkestan and their relation to the Chinese Tripiṭaka / Jens-Uwe Hartmann; title: The oldest Buddhist incantation in Chinese? : a preliminary study of the Chinese transcriptions of the Mantra in the Druma-kinnara-rāja-paripṛcchā-sūtra / Paul Harrison and W. South Coblin; title: Prakritic phonological elements in Chinese Buddhist transcriptions : data from Xuanying's Yiqiejing yinyi / Robert E. Buswell, Jr.; title: Aśvaghoṣa in Central Asia : some comments on the recensional history of his works in light of recent manuscripts discoveries / Richard Salomon; title: Khotan, an early center of Buddhism in Chinese Turkestan / Prods Oktor Skjærvø; title: Textual sources for Buddhism in Khotan / Hiroshi Kumamoto; title: The Khotanese antecedents of The sūtra of the wise and the foolish (Xianyu jing) / Victor H. Mair; title: Aršak, Parthian Buddhists, and "Iranian" Buddhism / David A. Utz; title: The "Sūtra of complete enlightenment" in Old Turkish Buddhism / Peter Zieme; title: Rituals, religious communities, and Buddhist sūtras in India and China / Nancy J. Barnes; title: The movement of Buddhist texts from India to China and the construction of the Chinese Buddhist canon / Lewis.; title: Lancaster.