{"title":"The Cult of the Deity Vajrak?la. Martin J. Boord. (Buddhica Britannica, Series Continua IV) The Institute of Buddhist Studies, Tring 1993. xiii, 271 pp. £21.00.","authors":"Bulcsu Siklós","doi":"10.1558/bsrv.v12i1.15033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bsrv.v12i1.15033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41430,"journal":{"name":"Buddhist Studies Review","volume":"12 1","pages":"88-91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45478959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dharmak?rti's Pram??av?rttika. An annotated translation of the fourth chapter (pararthanumana). Volume I (k.1-148). Tom Tillemans. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2000. xxxviii, 256 pp. ATS 592. ISBN 3-7001-2885-1.","authors":"Chr. Lindtner","doi":"10.1558/bsrv.v17i2.14498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bsrv.v17i2.14498","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41430,"journal":{"name":"Buddhist Studies Review","volume":"17 1","pages":"233-235"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42211711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Invitation to Enlightenment. Letter to the Great King Ka?i?ka by Matrceta. Letter to a Disciple by Candragomin. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Michael Hahn. Dharma Publishing Berkeley, CA 1999. lxxxiii, 379 pp. Pb $25.00. ISBN 0-89800-298-2.","authors":"C. Lindtner","doi":"10.1558/bsrv.v18i2.14464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bsrv.v18i2.14464","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41430,"journal":{"name":"Buddhist Studies Review","volume":"18 1","pages":"258-262"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42192782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagi-ography. John Kieschnick.","authors":"Francesca Tarocco","doi":"10.1558/bsrv.v20i1.14319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bsrv.v20i1.14319","url":null,"abstract":"The Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagi-ography. John Kieschnick. (Studies in East Asian Buddhism 10), University of Hawai’i/Kuroda Institute, Honolulu 1997. vii, 218 pp. ISBN 0-8248-1841-5.","PeriodicalId":41430,"journal":{"name":"Buddhist Studies Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44396793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transformation of Po?adha/Zhai in Early Medieval China (third–sixth centuries CE)","authors":"Yi Ding","doi":"10.1558/bsrv.37072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bsrv.37072","url":null,"abstract":"This article attempts to disentangle the semantics of zhai ? in early medieval China, mostly from the third century to the sixth, by examining both Indian and Chinese Buddhist sources. It demonstrates that semantic shifts in the term reflect a changing ritual context, as Chinese Buddhism rapidly took form. The article consists of two parts. The first part looks into how the Po?adha S?tra was first introduced to China and how the word po?adha was employed in early ?gama scriptures and the vinayas translated before the middle of the fifth century. The second part (from p. 89) examines the reception history of the lay po?adha and the transformation that it underwent in early medieval China. The po?adha/zhai in China eventually evolved into a religious feast centred on lay-monastic interaction in association with a variety of ritual elements, especially repentance rites.","PeriodicalId":41430,"journal":{"name":"Buddhist Studies Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44083135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the Blacksmith’s Forge to the Fires of Hell","authors":"Joseph Marino","doi":"10.1558/bsrv.37052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bsrv.37052","url":null,"abstract":"Early Buddhist texts were first being composed and compiled during South Asia’s Iron Age, and thus contain many references to iron and other metal technologies. This article examines one metalworking image that came to play a special role in the imagination of early Buddhists: the red-hot iron ball. I argue that the iron ball, which comes to be a torture device in hell, force-fed by hell wardens, is a mimesis of the pi??ap?ta, or almsfood offered to monks and nuns by the laity. Around iron ball imagery clusters a set of related Buddhist concerns: anxieties about undisciplined and deceitful monks and nuns, especially in relation to taking alms; the public perception of the sa?gha; the conceptualization of Buddhist hells as an unfortunate karmic result of lacking discipline; and the relationship between these hells and Indian juridical forms of punishment.","PeriodicalId":41430,"journal":{"name":"Buddhist Studies Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1558/bsrv.37052","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47551987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}