Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Volume One: Literature and Languages (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia / Brill's) - Hardcover

9789004283435: Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Volume One: Literature and Languages (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia / Brill's)

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ISBN 10: 9004283439 ISBN 13: 9789004283435

Publisher: Brill, 2015

Edited by Jonathan A. Silk, Leiden University, Editor-in-Chief. Consulting Editors: Oskar von Hin�ber, Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg and Vincent Eltschinger, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Volume I surveys Buddhist literatures, scriptural and nonscriptural, and offers discussions of the languages of Buddhist traditions and the physical bases (manuscripts, epigraphy, etc.) available for the study of Buddhist literatures. Subsequent volumes will address issues of personages, communities, history, life and practice, doctrine, space and time, and Buddhism in the modern world.

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About the Author:

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 Aśvaghoṣa.
Oskar von Hin�ber 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 (Associ� �tranger) of the Acad�mie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris, and corresponding member of the �sterreichische 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.

Review:

'No authoritative, reliable, and up-to-date reference work on Buddhism yet exists in any language. Brill's 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.'
E. van Laerhoven, Acta Comparanda 30 (2019)

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