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Buddhist Histories
JIABS Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies Volume 25 Number 1-2 2002 Buddhist Histories Richard SALOMON and Gregory SCHOPEN On an Alleged Reference to Amitabha in a KharoÒ†hi Inscription on a Gandharian Relief .................................................................... 3 Jinhua CHEN Sarira and Scepter. Empress Wu’s Political Use of Buddhist Relics 33 Justin T. MCDANIEL Transformative History. Nihon Ryoiki and Jinakalamalipakara∞am 151 Joseph WALSER Nagarjuna and the Ratnavali. New Ways to Date an Old Philosopher................................................................................ 209 Cristina A. SCHERRER-SCHAUB Enacting Words. A Diplomatic Analysis of the Imperial Decrees (bkas bcad) and their Application in the sGra sbyor bam po gnis pa Tradition....................................................................................... 263 Notes on the Contributors................................................................. 341 ON AN ALLEGED REFERENCE TO AMITABHA IN A KHARO∑™HI INSCRIPTION ON A GANDHARAN RELIEF RICHARD SALOMON AND GREGORY SCHOPEN 1. Background: Previous study and publication of the inscription This article concerns an inscription in KharoÒ†hi script and Gandhari language on the pedestal of a Gandharan relief sculpture which has been interpreted as referring to Amitabha and Avalokitesvara, and thus as hav- ing an important bearing on the issue of the origins of the Mahayana. The sculpture in question (fig. 1) has had a rather complicated history. According to Brough (1982: 65), it was first seen in Taxila in August 1961 by Professor Charles Kieffer, from whom Brough obtained the photograph on which his edition of the inscription was based. Brough reported that “[o]n his [Kieffer’s] return to Taxila a month later, the sculpture had dis- appeared, and no information about its whereabouts was forthcoming.” Later on, however, it resurfaced as part of the collection of Dr. -
Language Documentation and Description
Language Documentation and Description ISSN 1740-6234 ___________________________________________ This article appears in: Language Documentation and Description, vol 17. Editor: Peter K. Austin Countering the challenges of globalization faced by endangered languages of North Pakistan ZUBAIR TORWALI Cite this article: Torwali, Zubair. 2020. Countering the challenges of globalization faced by endangered languages of North Pakistan. In Peter K. Austin (ed.) Language Documentation and Description 17, 44- 65. London: EL Publishing. Link to this article: http://www.elpublishing.org/PID/181 This electronic version first published: July 2020 __________________________________________________ This article is published under a Creative Commons License CC-BY-NC (Attribution-NonCommercial). The licence permits users to use, reproduce, disseminate or display the article provided that the author is attributed as the original creator and that the reuse is restricted to non-commercial purposes i.e. research or educational use. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ ______________________________________________________ EL Publishing For more EL Publishing articles and services: Website: http://www.elpublishing.org Submissions: http://www.elpublishing.org/submissions Countering the challenges of globalization faced by endangered languages of North Pakistan Zubair Torwali Independent Researcher Summary Indigenous communities living in the mountainous terrain and valleys of the region of Gilgit-Baltistan and upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northern -
A Grammatical Description of Dameli
Emil Perder A Grammatical Description of Dameli Emil Perder A Grammatical Description of Dameli A Grammatical ISBN 978-91-7447-770-2 Department of Linguistics Doctoral Thesis in Linguistics at Stockholm University, Sweden 2013 A Grammatical Description of Dameli Emil Perder A Grammatical Description of Dameli Emil Perder ©Emil Perder, Stockholm 2013 ISBN 978-91-7447-770-2 Printed in Sweden by Universitetsservice AB, Stockholm 2013 Distributor: Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University ماں َتارف تہ ِاک توحفہ، دامیاں A gift from me, Dameli people Abstract This dissertation aims to provide a grammatical description of Dameli (ISO-639-3: dml), an Indo-Aryan language spoken by approximately 5 000 people in the Domel Valley in Chitral in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in the North-West of Pakistan. Dameli is a left-branching SOV language with considerable morphological complexity, particularly in the verb, and a complicated system of argument marking. The phonology is relatively rich, with 31 consonant and 16 vowel phonemes. This is the first extensive study of this language. The analysis presented here is based on original data collected primarily between 2003-2008 in cooperation with speakers of the language in Peshawar and Chitral, including the Domel Valley. The core of the data consists of recorded texts and word lists, but questionnaires and paradigms of word forms have also been used. The main emphasis is on describing the features of the language as they appear in texts and other material, rather than on conforming them to any theory, but the analysis is informed by functional analysis and linguistic typology, hypotheses on diachronical developments and comparisons with neighbouring and related languages. -
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THE Holy QURAN and the ORIENTALISTS: Literary PERSPECTIVE
THE HOLy QUPAN AND THE ORIENTALISTS: LITERARY PERSPECTIVE ABSTRACT ^nhmitM jTor tf}e fiegtee of Sottor of $l)iIos(opti? IN Arabic Literature BY TOWQUEER ALAM llnd»r th« Supervision of Dr. ABDUL BARI Professor and Chairman DEPARTMENT OF ARABIC ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY ALIGARH (INDIA) 1991-92 The holy Quran beinq a Book of guidance to the human so^ ' ^ty as a whole, has been a subject of discussion since its revelation period. Enormous contribution in the form of leading articles, research papers of high standard and com prehensive books regarding its majestic teachings, whether pro and against^ from the side of the Muslims or non-Muslims, provide an overt proof for its extra ordinary importance, un- comparable to any manifestation of human science and intellect. The teachings of the holy Book being revolutionary in its character, provide a complete guidance to the human being for adopting 'the right path as proposed by the Omnipotent God for a Successful life in this world and the world Hereafter. This aspect of study of the holy Quran is purely religious. The preservance oE the Revelation, its specific arrangement, majestic presentation, omission and addition, rhyme and rhythm andjabove all, its miraculous character, both from the point of view of ideology and literature, testify for its being a marvellous literary monument, :fer above in excellence» in com- prision to any human endeavour , irrespective of age and place. I am not hesitant,at all, to concede that the Occidental scholars, although not altogether free from biased thinking, have contributed a lot, so far as their intellectual endeavours are concerned. -
Outer and Inner Indo-Aryan, and Northern India As an Ancient Linguistic Area
Acta Orientalia 2016: 77, 71–132. Copyright © 2016 Printed in India – all rights reserved ACTA ORIENTALIA ISSN 0001-6483 Outer and Inner Indo-Aryan, and northern India as an ancient linguistic area Claus Peter Zoller University of Oslo Abstract The article presents a new approach to the old controversy concerning the veracity of a distinction between Outer and Inner Languages in Indo-Aryan. A number of arguments and data are presented which substantiate the reality of this distinction. This new approach combines this issue with a new interpretation of the history of Indo- Iranian and with the linguistic prehistory of northern India. Data are presented to show that prehistorical northern India was dominated by Munda/Austro-Asiatic languages. Keywords: Indo-Aryan, Indo-Iranian, Nuristani, Munda/Austro- Asiatic history and prehistory. Introduction This article gives a summary of the most important arguments contained in my forthcoming book on Outer and Inner languages before and after the arrival of Indo-Aryan in South Asia. The 72 Claus Peter Zoller traditional version of the hypothesis of Outer and Inner Indo-Aryan purports the idea that the Indo-Aryan Language immigration1 was not a singular event. Yet, even though it is known that the actual historical movements and processes in connection with this immigration were remarkably complex, the concerns of the hypothesis are not to reconstruct the details of these events but merely to show that the original non-singular immigrations have left revealing linguistic traces in the modern Indo-Aryan languages. Actually, this task is challenging enough, as the long-lasting controversy shows.2 Previous and present proponents of the hypothesis have tried to fix the difference between Outer and Inner Languages in terms of language geography (one graphical attempt as an example is shown below p. -
The Elements of the Hu 胡languages in Chinese Transcription in Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā
東亞觀念史集刊 第十一期 2016 年12 月 頁425-451 The Elements of the Hu 胡Languages in Chinese Transcription in Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā * Wei Ling-chia Abstract Scholars have presented different theories about how Buddhism spread to China and which routes were followed since its birth. In order to reinforce the linguistic evidence that Central Asian languages and non- Sanskrit languages played a role of medium in the sutra translation, this paper focuses on the Chinese transcribed words in the translation of the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā, translated by Lokakṣema. The comparison and correspondence between the Chinese transcribed words and the sounds in Tocharian, Gāndhārī and Middle Indic highly suggest that the Chinese version of the sutra was not translated directly from Sanskrit to Chinese; the linguistic evidence proves the existence of Central Asian languages and non-Sanskrit languages in the process of translating the Buddhist sutra into Chinese. The tradition of oral transmission in Buddhism offered a precious opportunity for Central Asian monks to dictate and recite the * Wei Ling-chia is Assistant Professor of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 426 東亞觀念史集刊 Buddhist sutras in their local languages; the Chinese transcribed words in the sutra translation are concrete and valid proof that certain Central Asian languages, such as Tocharian, Sogdian, Bactrian, and other non- Sanskrit languages, such as Gāndhārī and Middle Indic, were mediums and may actually be the source languages for Buddhist sutra translation into Chinese. Keywords: Aṣṭasāhasrikā -
Comparing Camels in Afghanistan and Australia: Industry and Nationalism During the Long Nineteenth Century
Comparing camels in Afghanistan and Australia: Industry and nationalism during the Long Nineteenth Century Shah Mahmoud Hanifi [James Madison University, Virginia, USA] Abstract: This paper compares the roles of camels and their handlers in state building projects in Afghanistan and Australia during the global ascendance of industrial production. Beginning in the mid-1880s the Afghan state-sponsored industrial project known as the mashin khana or Kabul workshops had significant consequences for camel-based commercial transport in and between Afghanistan and colonial India. Primary effects include the carriage of new commodities, new forms of financing and taxation, re- routing, and markedly increased state surveillance over camel caravans. In Australia the trans-continental railway and telegraph, and other projects involving intra-continental exploration and mining, generated a series of in-migrations of Afghan camels and cameleers between the 1830s and 1890s. The port of Adelaide was the urban center most affected by Afghan camels and cameleers, and a set of new interior markets and settlements originate from these in-migrations. The contributions of Afghan camels and their handlers to state-building projects in nineteenth-century Afghanistan and Australia highlight their vital roles in helping to establish industrial enterprises, and the equally important point that once operational these industrial projects became agents in the economic marginalization of camels and the social stigmatization of the human labour associated with them. __________________________________________________________________ Introduction: camels, political economy and national identities The movement of camels through the Hindu Kush mountain passes was greatly transformed beginning in 1893. That year the Durrani Amir of Kabul Abd al-Rahman signed an agreement with the British Indian colonial official Sir Henry Mortimer Durand acknowledging there would be formal demarcation of the border between their respective vastly unequal powers, one being a patron and the other a client. -
Hidden Realms and Pure Abodes: Central Asian Buddhism As Frontier Religion in the Literature of India, Nepal, and Tibet
Hidden Realms and Pure Abodes: Central Asian Buddhism as Frontier Religion in the Literature of India, Nepal, and Tibet Ronald M. Davidson Fairfield University The notable romantic interest in Silk Route studies in the last hundred years has spread far beyond the walls of academe, and is especially observed in the excessive world of journalism. In Japan, NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) has produced a series of films whose images are extraordinary while their content remains superficial. The American Na- tional Geographical Society has followed suit in their own way, with some curious articles written by journalists and photographers. With the 2001 conflict in Afghanistan, American undergraduates have also begun to perceive Central Asia as a place of interest and excitement, an assessment that will not necessarily pay dividends in the support of serious scholar- ship. While Indian and Arab academic commentators on popular Western cultural movements want to read the lurid hand of Orientalism into such responses, I believe something more interesting is actually happening. Over the course of the past decade, I have often been struck by statements in medieval Buddhist literature from India, Nepal, and Tibet, statements that depict areas of Central Asia and the Silk Route in similarly exotic tones. Whether it is a land of secret knowledge or mystery, of danger and romance, or a land of opportunity and spirituality, the willingness of Indians, Nepalese, and Tibetans to entertain and accept fabulous descrip- tions of the domains wherein silk commerce and Buddhism existed for approximately a millennium is an interesting fact. More to the point, for the Buddhist traditions found in classical and medieval India and Tibet, there has been no area comparable to Central Asia for its combination of intellec- tual, ritual, mythic, and social impact. -
Queens' College Record
Queens' College Record 1990 Queens' College, March 1990 VisitorTHE CROWN Patroness HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER President The Revd John Charlton Polkinghorne, M.A., sc.o., F.R.s. Honorary Fellows: The Revd Henry Chadwick, K.B.E., M.A., Mus.B., D.D., D.D. h.c. (Glasgow), F.B.A. Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge; Emeritus Regius Professor of Divinity. Sir Thomas Padmore, G.C.B., M.A. Sir Harold Walter Bailey, M.A., D. Litt. h.c. (W. Australia), D.Litt. h.c. (AustralianNational University), D. Litt. h.c. (Oxon), D.D. h.c. (Manchester), F.B.A. Emeritus Professor of Sanskrit Lord Allen of Abbeydale, G.C.B., M.A. Alfred Charles Tomlinson, M.A., D.Litt. h.c. (Keele), D.Litt h.c. (Colegate), D.Litt. h.c. (New Mexico), F.R.S.L. Professor of English in the University of Bristol. The Rt Hon. Sir George Stanley Waller, O.B.E., M.A. Lord Justice of Appeal. Robert Neville Haszeldine, M.A., Sc.D., F.R.S. Sir Cyril Humphrey Cripps, M.A., LL.D. h.c., D.Sc. h.c. (Nottingham). The Rt Hon. Sir Stephen Brown, M.A., LL.D. h.c. (Birmingham). Lord Justice of Appeal. Sir Ronald Halstead, C.B.E., M.A., D.Sc. h.c. (Reading), Hon.F.I.F.S.T., F.R.S.C. Professor Peter Mathias, C.B.E., M.A., F.B.A., Litt.D. (Oxon). Master of Downing College, Cambridge. John Michael Middlecott Banham, M.A. David Alan Walker, M.A. Fellows: The Revd Henry St John Hart, M.A., B.D. -
A Comparative Study of Arthur John Arberry's And
A Thesis Submitted for the Degree of PhD at the University of Warwick Permanent WRAP URL: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/102256/ Copyright and reuse: This thesis is made available online and is protected by original copyright. Please scroll down to view the document itself. Please refer to the repository record for this item for information to help you to cite it. Our policy information is available from the repository home page. For more information, please contact the WRAP Team at: [email protected] warwick.ac.uk/lib-publications i A Comparative Study of Arthur John Arberry’s and Desmond O’Grady’s Translations of the Seven Mu‘allaqāt by Heba Fawzy El-Masry A thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Translation Studies University of Warwick, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies September 2017 I Table of Contents List of Figures IV Note on Translation and Transliteration V Acknowledgments VII Declaration VIII Abstract IX Abbreviations X 1. Introduction 1 1.1.Rationale for Undertaking the Research 1 1.2. Statement of the Problem 4 1.3. Survey of Arthur John Arberry’s and Desmond O’Grady’s Contributions to the Field of Translation 6 1.4. Definitions of Key Terms 10 1.5. Thesis Structure 11 2. Review of the Literature 13 2.1. Introduction: A Bourdieusian Approach to Studying the History of the Field of English Translations of the Mu‘allaqāt 13 2.2. Genesis of the Field of English Translations of the Mu‘allaqāt. 18 2.2.1. -
Change and Continuity in the Zoroastrian Tradition
CHANGE AND CONTINUITY IN THE ZOROASTRIAN TRADITION AN INAUGURAL LECTURE DELIVERED ON 22 FEBRUARY 2012 BY ALMUT HINTZE Zartoshty Professor of Zoroastrianism in the University of London SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 2013 CHANGE AND CONTINUITY IN THE ZOROASTRIAN TRADITION AN INAUGURAL LECTURE DELIVERED ON 22 FEBRUARY 2012 BY ALMUT HINTZE Zartoshty Professor of Zoroastrianism in the University of London SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 2013 The publication of this booklet was supported by a grant of the Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe. Published by the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London), Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG. © Almut Hintze, 2013 Cover image: K. E. Eduljee, Zoroastrian Heritage Layout: Andrew Osmond, SOAS British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978 07286 0400 1 Printed in Great Britain at SOAS, University of London. Dedicated to the memory of the brothers Faridoon and Mehraban Zartoshty, to that of Professor Mary Boyce and of an anonymous benefactor. Table of Contents Preface by the Director of SOAS 5 Preface by the President of the Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe 7 Change and Continuity in the Zoroastrian Tradition 11 PrefacebytheDirectorofSOAS ThelinksbetweenSOASandtheZoroastriancommunityreachrightbacktothe early years of SOAS.In 1929 a consortium of Zoroastrian benefactors from Bombayfundedthe‘ParseeCommunity’sLectureshipinIranianStudies’atSOAS on