Dimensions of Buddhism and Jainism

Bhattacharya, Buddhadev [u.a.] (Hrsg.):
Dimensions of Buddhism and Jainism : Professor Suniti Kumar Pathak Felicitation Volume / ed. by Buddhadev Bhattacharya and Ramaranjan Mukherji. - Vols. 1-2. - Kolkata : Sanskrit Book Depot, 2009. - viii, xxiii, 843 S.
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Inhalt
VOL. I
Message
Editorial
I. SUNITI KUMAR PATHAK: A PERSON
   1. Life sketch of Professor S.K. Pathak / Buddhadev Bhattacharya
   2. I saw him in the light of my own eyes / Jayanti De
   3. My teacher as I know him / Kalpika Mukherjee
   4. The spirituality, as I have visualised / Ranesh Chandra Poddar
II. UNITARY BUDDHISM
   1. How does the practice of Vipassana help us in ending our suffering? / Angraj Chaudhary
   2. Functions of consciousness (Citta-kiccani) in Abhidharma philosophy / Bimalendra Kumar
   3. The system of meditation of the Paramadiṭṭha-dhamma nibbāṇa-vādins / Biswadeb Mukherjee
   4. The Itivuttaka - its syllabic structure / Devaprasad Guha
   5. Preliminaries of the Vajrāvalī / Dipak Bhattacharya
   6. Economic structure in the Buddhist Saṃgha / Pranabananda Jash
   7. Apropos of Dhātupāṭhas in general and Maitreya's Dhātupradīpa in particular / Karunasindhu Das
   8. Ten precious seeds in the heart to grow into healthy Bodhi trees / Lokesh Chanda
   9. Lalita-vistara: a model of dissemination of knowledge / Mangala R. Chinchore
   10. Atheistic and non-atheistic concept in Buddhism / Sadhan Sarkar
   11. Buddhist conception of a true Brahmin - a study / Saheli Das
   12. A brief note on the Buddha's teaching of 'anatta' or 'nairātmya' / U.S. Vyas
   13. The Buddhist logic of Santāna (series) / V.N. Jha
III. SCHISMATIC BUDDHISM
   1. Status of Buddhist nuns (study from Theravāda-Bhikkhunī-pātimokkha) / Aiswarya Biswas
   2. Gzhi thams and cad yod par smra ba she'i dul ba (ZTYD) (Mulasarvastivada Vinaya MsV) Lineages in Tibet: a survey / Anandamayee Ghosh
   3. Religious change in Srilankan Buddhism / Avinash Kumar Srivastava
   4. Antagonism against the Buddhists in the Sanskrit literature / Bibekananda Banerjee
   5. Buddhist universities of the past as great seats of learning / Binayendra Nath Chaudhury
   6. (Article in Hindi)
   7. The brief thought about Pudgala / Sangwhan Shin
   8. A study on the Prakrt inscriptions belonging to the first century B.C. / Subhra Bhadra (Basu)
   9. Sarvāstivada : explained in the A-pi-ta-mo-shih-shen-tsu-lun (Abhidharma-vijnakakaya-pada-sastra / Swati Ganguly
   10. A brief history and doctrine of Kālacakra in India and Tibet / V.V.S. Saibaba
IV. DIVERSE TRADITIONS IN BUDDHISM
   1. Nasal characteristics of the Tibetan language: a critical study / Arpita Chatterjee
   2. Ancient Buddhist centres in Bihar / Bela Bhattacharya
   3. The role of translation in the making of a linguist / Haraprasad Ray
   4. Some aspects of Mahayana Buddhist literature in Indonesia / J. Sitaramamma
   5. Pratyeka-Buddhabhūmi / Jagadishwara Pandey
   6. (Article in Hindi)
   7. Royal symbolism of the Prajñāpāramitā of Ta Prohm / Lokesh Chanda
   8. A focus on Tibetan dance and music of Indian Himalayas / Malavika Bandyopadhyaya
   9. Transmission of Indian logical and epistemological text into Tibetan (11 century) / Manotosh Mandal
   10. Prajñā in Yoga and Buddhist philosophy / Mridula Roy
   11. Āryamañjuśrī-Mūla-Kalpa on the imperial Guptas / Manabendu Banerjee
   12. Madhyamaka philosophy of two truths: a comparative study of it with Advaita Vedānta and some other philosophies / Niradbaran Mandal Kavyatarkatirtha
   13. Śāntarakṣita's exposition on the validity of Buddhavacana / Piyali Palit
   14. (Article in Hindi)
   15. The practice of Buddhism among the Bodh in Spiti / R.K. Bhattacharya and Kumkum Bhattacharya
   16. (Article in Hindi)
   17. Contribution of foreign Buddhist monasteries in propagation of Buddhism in India / Rita Gupta
   18. Spread of Buddhism in Tibet and present status in India / Shyama Mondal
   19. Buddhist doctrine for the householder / Subhra Barua
   20. Is Buddhism one or many? / Vishwajit Kumar
   21. Depredation and Arson at Sarnath / U.N. Biswas
VOL. II.
V. ALTRUISTIC BUDDHISM
   1. The divine female : a Bengal - Tibetan comparison of the feminine principle / Andrea Loseries
   2. Sanskrit texts of the Siddhācāryas available in Tibetan sources / Bhakti De
   3. Chandidasa : a Sahajia poet / Buddhadeb Acharya
   4. Buddhist theory and practice means to the new challenges / Losang Norbu Shastri
   5. Concept of Ādi-Buddha in Dharmakośa Saṅgrahaḥ / Piyali Chakraborty
   6. Bell inscriptions of Btsan po Dynasty (dril bu'i byang) / Shedup Tenzin
   7. Bon: its encounter with Buddhism in Tibet / Sonam Pema Bodh
   8. Buddhist Goddesses of Bengal: synthesis or antithesis / Susmita Chatterjee
   9. Tibetan vows as matters/vows of Tibetan monks - Sdom-pa / Viktor Lovasz
   10. The Tibetan Buddhist culture in the epic Gesar / Wang Xingxion
VI. CONTEMPORARY BUDDHISM AND NAVAYANA (NEW VEHICLE)
   1. The Buddhism in Sikkim / Archana Roy
   2. Social philosophy of Buddhism and challenges of the twenty first century / Baidyanath Labh
   3. Buddhist Tantric studies : at Dawn of 21 century / Banarasi Lal
   4. Contemporary Bhoti Buddhists in Indian Himalayas (Eastern sector) / Bandana Mukherjee
   5. Buddhadeva in modern Bengali Literature / Bhabatosh Dutta
   6. Import of the humans : a comparative approach with Buddhism / Bidyut Baran Bandyopadhyay
   7. The essence of Buddhism / Bijan Bandhu Samajdar
   8. The character of the Ge Sar Sgrungs in the context of Indian Epic Literature / Buddhadev Bhattacharya
   9. Survival and development: the Buddhist perspective/Hemendu Bikash Chowdhury. 10. Impermanent law reflecting in the last instructional poem of man Giac - The great Vietnamese Master / Huynh Thi Thang
   11. Paritta in comparative light to the contemporary society / K. Sankarnarayan
   12. Khams Sprul's observation on Rupaka Alamkara / Kalpika Mukherjee
   13. Tibetan monasteries in era of Tibetan Diaspora / Karubaki Dutta
   14. Introduction of Buddhism in North and north-east / Manikuntala Halder De
   15. Against all odds, migrant Tibetans in the Darjeeling District carry on their legacy / Noreen Mukhopadhyaya
   16. Tibetan food offerings : an overview on gtor ma, t'sog, phye mar in contemporary world / Nupur Pathak
   17. (Article in Hindi)
   18. A comparison of the two variants of the offering ritual text to a Mongolian protective deity, Dayan Degereki / Robert Jutro Torok
   19. Ecology as revealed in the Pali Literature / Saswati Mutsuddy
   20. An appraisal of the Dhammapada by Prabodh Chandra Sen / Sulagna Mukherjee
   21. (Article in Hindi)
VII. BUDDHISM, SCIENCE AND WORLD PEACE
   1. Journey towards sunyata from Quantum mechanics / Debajyoti Gangopadhyay
   2. Sahaja (the natural way leading to spontaneity) / Kulavadhuta Satpurananda
   3. Buddhism, humanism and Sristsila Manavbad : an intercultural expansion of global harmony and peace / Santi Nath Chattopadhyay
   4. Modern science and Tantra, Yantra and Mandala / Sisir Roy
VIII. JAINISM : UNITARY AND DYNAMIC
   1. (Article in Hindi)
   2. Spirituality in the highest weal; a Jaina perspective / Arun Kumar Mondal
   3. Society and economy as revealed in the image inscriptions (Buddhist, Jaina and Brahmanical) of Northern India from 3 century B.C. to 7 century A.D. / Jagatpati Sarkar
   4. Ecological imbalance - a threat to life : remedial approach in Jainism / Kajal De
   5. On sva-samvedana / Madhumita Chattopadhyay
   6. Jainism: a dynamic realism / Mahendra Kumar Misra
   7. Scientific aspects of Karma theory / N.L. Jain
   8. On the arrangement of some Sutras of Trivikrama's Prakrit grammar / Satya Ranjan Banerjee
   9. Social aspect of Jainism / Suchitra Ray Acharyya
   10. Self and liberation - a Jaina understanding / Uma Chattopadhyay
   11. Jain Nyaya (doctrine of right judgment) : brief outline discussion / Veer Sagar Jain

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