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Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Volume One
Literature and Languages
Series: - Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia, Volume: 29-1
- Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Volume: 29-1
Editor-in-Chief:
Brillâs Encyclopedia of Buddhism is the first comprehensive academic reference work devoted to the plurality of Buddhist traditions across Asia, offering readers a balanced and detailed treatment of this complex phenomenon in six thematically arranged volumes: literature and languages (I, publ. 2015), lives (II, publ. 2019), thought (III), history (IV), life and practice (V), index and remaining issues (VI).
Each volume contains substantial original essays by many of the worldâs foremost scholars, essays which not only cover basic information and well-known issues but which also venture into areas as yet untouched by modern scholarship. An essential tool for anyone interested in Buddhism.
An online resource will provide easy access to the encyclopediaâs ever-growing corpus of information.
Brillâs Encyclopedia of Buddhism is under the general editorial control of Jonathan Silk (Leiden University, editor-in-chief), Richard Bowring (University of Cambridge) and Vincent Eltschinger (Ãcole Pratique des Hautes Ãtudes, Paris). In addition, each volume has a dedicated board of specialist editors.
Each volume contains substantial original essays by many of the worldâs foremost scholars, essays which not only cover basic information and well-known issues but which also venture into areas as yet untouched by modern scholarship. An essential tool for anyone interested in Buddhism.
An online resource will provide easy access to the encyclopediaâs ever-growing corpus of information.
Brillâs Encyclopedia of Buddhism is under the general editorial control of Jonathan Silk (Leiden University, editor-in-chief), Richard Bowring (University of Cambridge) and Vincent Eltschinger (Ãcole Pratique des Hautes Ãtudes, Paris). In addition, each volume has a dedicated board of specialist editors.
Jonathan Silk is professor in the study of Buddhism at Leiden University. His research centers on the scriptural literature of Indian Buddhism.
Vincent Eltschinger has been a research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2003. His research focuses on the genealogy and the religious background of late Indian Buddhist philosophy. Among his numerous publications, mention can be made of Buddhist Epistemology as Apologetics (Vienna, 2014) and a series of articles dedicated to the sources and polemical targets of AÅvaghoá¹£a.
Oskar von Hinüber is professor emeritus at the Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg and ordinary member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz, foreign ordinary member (Associé étranger) of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris, and corresponding member of the Ãsterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna. He has mainly published in the fields of ancient Indian cultural history, historical grammar and literature of Middle Indo-Aryan languages, the Buddhist manuscript tradition, and epigraphy.
Vincent Eltschinger has been a research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2003. His research focuses on the genealogy and the religious background of late Indian Buddhist philosophy. Among his numerous publications, mention can be made of Buddhist Epistemology as Apologetics (Vienna, 2014) and a series of articles dedicated to the sources and polemical targets of AÅvaghoá¹£a.
Oskar von Hinüber is professor emeritus at the Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg and ordinary member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz, foreign ordinary member (Associé étranger) of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris, and corresponding member of the Ãsterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna. He has mainly published in the fields of ancient Indian cultural history, historical grammar and literature of Middle Indo-Aryan languages, the Buddhist manuscript tradition, and epigraphy.
"No authoritative, reliable, and up-to-date reference work on Buddhism yet exists in any language. Brillâs Encyclopedia of Buddhism (= BEB) aims to fill that gap with a comprehensive work, presented in two phases: a series of six thematic volumes including an index volume, addressing issues of global and regional importance, to be followed by an ever-expanding online resource providing access both to synthetic and comprehensive treatments and to more individuated details on persons, places, texts, doctrinal matters, and so on. [...] The BEB is the only encyclopedia of this scope and depth which takes the enormous progress of buddhist studies of the last 50 years into account. [...] The BEB is an impressive and extremely ambitious work-in-continual-progress which will fill a real need."
â E. van Laerhoven, in Acta Comparanda 30 (2019).
â E. van Laerhoven, in Acta Comparanda 30 (2019).
Preliminary Table of Contents
Volume I
Scriptural:
General: Canonicity; Tripiá¹aka; Ägama / NikÄya; Abhidharma; Dazangjing; Kanjur; Tanjur
MahÄyÄna SÅ«tra Literature: Overview; BuddhÄvataá¹saka; DhÄraá¹Ä« SÅ«tras; Laá¹ kÄvatÄra; Lotus SÅ«tra; MahÄparinirvÄá¹asÅ«tra; PrajñÄpÄramitÄ; Pure Land SÅ«tras;SamÄdhirÄja; Sandhinirmocana; Suvará¹abhÄsottama; TathÄgatagarbha; VimalakÄ«rtinirdeÅa; Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha; MahÄyÄna SÅ«tra Anthologies
Tantric Literature: Overview; Catuá¹£pÄ«tha; GuhyasamÄja; Hevajra; KÄlacakra; MañjuÅrÄ«nÄmasaá¹gÄ«ti; Åamvara; SarvabuddhasamÄyogaá¸ÄkinÄ«jÄlaÅaá¹vara; SarvavtathÄgatatattvasaá¹graha; VairocanÄbhisaá¹bodhi; Rnying ma; Gter ma
Vinaya Literature; Vinayas; Vinaya Commentarial Literature in Pali; Monastic Organizational Guidelines
Nonscriptural:
Commentary: Early Scripture Commentary; Abhidharma Commentarial Literature; MahÄyÄna SÅ«tra Commentaries: East Asia; Tantric Commentaries: India; Rishukyo and Its Commentarial Tradition; Putixinlun
Belles Lettres: Narratives: South Asia; Poetry: South Asia; Narratives: Tibet; Poetry: China: Pre-Song; Poetry: China: Song and After; Narratives and Drama: China; Narratives: Japan; Poetry: Japan; Korean Buddhist Literature in Korean; Korean Buddhist Literature in Chinese; Narrative: Southeast Asia
Dramatic Works: South Asia; Tibet; Central Asia; Japan; Philosophical Literature; India; Tibet; China; Korea; Japan
Ritual Texts: South Asia; New Tantras (Gsar ma); Rnying ma; Korea; Chinese (Esoteric) Buddhist Liturgical Manuals from Dunhuang; Fang Yankou Rites; Chinese Tantric Texts in Court Circles; Tantric Ritual Manuals in East Asia; Chan Literature
Biography and Hagiography: Epistolary Literature; Tibet; Japan
Teaching Literature: Tantric Prakaraá¹as; Debate Literature: Japan; Doxography: Tibet; Iconography
Historiography: South Asia; Tibet; China; Japan; Thailand and Laos; Burma
Local Literatures: Tamil; Nepal; Bön; Sogdian; Tangut/Xixia; Khotanese; Uighur; Mongolia; Japan; Yunnan; Sri Lanka; Mainland Southeast Asia
Languages: Indic; Tibetan; Central Asian Languages; Chinese; Southeast Asian Languages
Physical Bases: Manuscripts and Printing: South, Southeast, and Central Asia; Manuscripts and Printing: Tibet; Manuscripts and Printing: East Asia; Epigraphy: South Asia; Epigraphy: Southeast Asia; Epigraphy: Tibet and Central Asia; Epigraphy: East Asia
Volume I
Scriptural:
General: Canonicity; Tripiá¹aka; Ägama / NikÄya; Abhidharma; Dazangjing; Kanjur; Tanjur
MahÄyÄna SÅ«tra Literature: Overview; BuddhÄvataá¹saka; DhÄraá¹Ä« SÅ«tras; Laá¹ kÄvatÄra; Lotus SÅ«tra; MahÄparinirvÄá¹asÅ«tra; PrajñÄpÄramitÄ; Pure Land SÅ«tras;SamÄdhirÄja; Sandhinirmocana; Suvará¹abhÄsottama; TathÄgatagarbha; VimalakÄ«rtinirdeÅa; Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha; MahÄyÄna SÅ«tra Anthologies
Tantric Literature: Overview; Catuá¹£pÄ«tha; GuhyasamÄja; Hevajra; KÄlacakra; MañjuÅrÄ«nÄmasaá¹gÄ«ti; Åamvara; SarvabuddhasamÄyogaá¸ÄkinÄ«jÄlaÅaá¹vara; SarvavtathÄgatatattvasaá¹graha; VairocanÄbhisaá¹bodhi; Rnying ma; Gter ma
Vinaya Literature; Vinayas; Vinaya Commentarial Literature in Pali; Monastic Organizational Guidelines
Nonscriptural:
Commentary: Early Scripture Commentary; Abhidharma Commentarial Literature; MahÄyÄna SÅ«tra Commentaries: East Asia; Tantric Commentaries: India; Rishukyo and Its Commentarial Tradition; Putixinlun
Belles Lettres: Narratives: South Asia; Poetry: South Asia; Narratives: Tibet; Poetry: China: Pre-Song; Poetry: China: Song and After; Narratives and Drama: China; Narratives: Japan; Poetry: Japan; Korean Buddhist Literature in Korean; Korean Buddhist Literature in Chinese; Narrative: Southeast Asia
Dramatic Works: South Asia; Tibet; Central Asia; Japan; Philosophical Literature; India; Tibet; China; Korea; Japan
Ritual Texts: South Asia; New Tantras (Gsar ma); Rnying ma; Korea; Chinese (Esoteric) Buddhist Liturgical Manuals from Dunhuang; Fang Yankou Rites; Chinese Tantric Texts in Court Circles; Tantric Ritual Manuals in East Asia; Chan Literature
Biography and Hagiography: Epistolary Literature; Tibet; Japan
Teaching Literature: Tantric Prakaraá¹as; Debate Literature: Japan; Doxography: Tibet; Iconography
Historiography: South Asia; Tibet; China; Japan; Thailand and Laos; Burma
Local Literatures: Tamil; Nepal; Bön; Sogdian; Tangut/Xixia; Khotanese; Uighur; Mongolia; Japan; Yunnan; Sri Lanka; Mainland Southeast Asia
Languages: Indic; Tibetan; Central Asian Languages; Chinese; Southeast Asian Languages
Physical Bases: Manuscripts and Printing: South, Southeast, and Central Asia; Manuscripts and Printing: Tibet; Manuscripts and Printing: East Asia; Epigraphy: South Asia; Epigraphy: Southeast Asia; Epigraphy: Tibet and Central Asia; Epigraphy: East Asia
All those interested in religions in South Asia, the history of Buddhism, as well as Indologists and historians of religions.