Buddhist Asia
Subtitle: papers from the first Conference of Buddhist Studies held in Naples in May 2001
By: edited by Giovanni Verardi, Silvio Vita
Contributors: Verardi, Giovanni; Vita, Silvio; Università degli studi di Napoli "L'Orientale". Centro di studi sul buddhismo
Publisher: Italian School of East Asian Studies
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Kyoto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Buddhism; Congresses; Tantric Buddhism; Boeddhisme
Other titles: Buddhist Asia one
Notes: At head of title: Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", Centro di Studi sul Buddhismo.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Images of destruction. An enquiry into Hindu icons in their relation to Buddhism / Giovanni Verardi; title: A vajrayanic theme in the rock sculpture of Swat / Anna Filigenzi; title: Some considerations on the relationship between Hindu and Buddhist tantras / Francesco Sferra; title: Canonical quotations in the Khotanese book of Vimalakirti / Mauro Maggi; title: Eros and death in esoteric Indo-Tibetan Buddhism / Giacomella Orofino; title: The excavations at the Fengxiansi site in Longmen, China / Erika Forte; title: On the origin of the purple Kasaya in China / Antonino Forte; title: Dharmaraksa and Kanthaka. White Horse monasteries in early medieval China / Antonello Palumbo; title: Printings of the Buddhist "canon" in modern Japan / Silvio Vita.