The Buddhist forum. Volume III, 1991-1993

Abstract

Preface ; Abbreviations ; Works of David Seyfort Ruegg ; Helmut Eimer & Pema Tsering, Bonn Legs skar /Skar bzang / Sunakṣatra ; Rupert Gethin, University of Bristol Bhavaṅga and Rebirth According to the Abhidhamma ; Minoru Hara, University of Tokyo Deva-garbha and Tathāgata-garbha ; Stephen Hodge, London Considerations on the Dating and Geographical Origins of the Mahāvairocanābhisaṃbodhi-sūtra ; David Jackson, University of Hamburg The Status of Pramāṇa Doctrine According to Sa skya Paṇḍita and Other Tibetan Masters: Theoretical Discipline or Doctrine of Liberation? ; Per Kværne, University of Oslo The Bon Religion of Tibet: A Survey of Research ; Karen Lang, University of Virginia Meditation as a Tool for Deconstructing the Phenomenal World ; Donald SLopez, Jr., University of Michigan dGe ’dun Chos ’phel’s Position on Vigrahavyāvartinī 29 ; Stewart McFarlane, University of Lancaster Fighting Bodhisattvas and Inner Warriors: Buddhism and the Martial Traditions of China and Japan ; Kenneth RNorman, University of Cambridge Mistaken Ideas about Nibbāna ; Kenneth RNorman, University of Cambridge A Note on silāvigaḍabhīcā in Aśoka’s Rummindei Inscription 227 Alexander Piatigorsky, SOAS Some Observations on the Notion of Tathāgatagarbha ; Cristina AScherrer-Schaub, University of Lausanne Tendance de la Pensée de Candrakīrti, Buddhajñāna et Jinakriyā ; Gregory Schopen, University at Austin, Texas Stūpa and Tīrtha: Tibetan Mortuary Practices and an Unrecognized Form of Burial Ad Sanctos at Buddhist Sites in India ; Tom J.FTillemans, University of Lausanne Pre-Dharmakīrti Commentators on Dignāga’s Definition of a Thesis (pakṣalakṣaṇa) ; Paul Williams, University or Bristol On Altruism and Rebirth: Philosophical Comments on Bodhicaryāvatāra 8: 97–98 ; Ulrich Pagel, The British Library The Bodhisattvapiṭaka and the Akṣayamatinirdeśa: Continuity and Change in Buddhist Sūtras ; Tadeusz Skorupski, SOAS A Prayer for Rebirth in the Sukhāvatī ; Bibliography ;