Table of Contents
Orna Almogi: Editorial Preface 7
Part One: Canonical Literature
Chiko Ishida: Newly Discovered Folios of the Bodhisattvacaryavatara in the Tabo Collection 25
Laxman S. Thakur: The emergence of the Tabo Avatamsakasutra: An Analysis of Ancient Tibetan Manuscripts and Their Comprehensive Catalogue 45
Orna Almogi: How Authentic Are Titles and Colophons of Tantric Works in the Tibetan Canon? The Case of Three Works and Their Authors and Translators 87
Part Two: Philosophical and Exegetical Literature
Kazuo Kano: Rngog Blo-ldan shes rab´s Topical Outline of the Ratnagotravibhaga Discovered at Khara Khoto 127
Dorji Wangchuk: Cross-Referential Clues for a Relative Chronology of Klong chen pa´s Works 195
Part Three: Tantric Literature
Cathy Cantwell and Robert Mayer: The Dunhuang Phur pa Corpus: A Survey 247
Cathy Cantwell and Robert Mayer: Why Did the Phur pa Tradition Become So Prominent in Tibet? 277
Weirong Shen: A Preliminary Investigation into the Tangut Background of the Mongol Adoption of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism 315
Yael Bentor: Do „The Tantras Embody What the Practitioners Actually Do“? 351
Part Four: Biographical, Historical and Bibliographical Literature
Helmut Eimer: Sources for the Vita of ´Brom ston Rgyal ba´i ´byung gnas 377
Ulrike Roesler: On the History of Histories: The Case of the Bka´ gdams pa-s 393
Michela Clemente: A Case Study of a Nang gi rnam thar: The Example of Kun spangs pa Chos kyi rin chen´s Autobiography 415
Marco Passavanti: The Bla ma brgyud pa´i rim-pa: A Thirteenth-Century Work on the Doha Lineage of Sahara 435
Jowita Kramer: The Gsan yig of A mes zhabs: Observations regarding Its Stylistic and Formal Features 489
Part Five: Belles Lettres
Peter Verhagen: Notes Apropos to the Oeuvre of Si tu pan chen Chos kyi ´byung gnas (1699?-1774) (1): Belles Lettres in His Opera Minora 513
Victoria Sujata: Relationship between Inner Life and Solitary Places: The Mgur of Two Siddhas in Amdo 549
