Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism Online

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Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism, published both in print and online, is the first comprehensive academic reference work devoted to the plurality of Buddhist traditions across Asia, offering readers a balanced and detailed treatment of this complex phenomenon in seven thematically arranged volumes: Literature and Languages (I, publ. 2015), Lives (II, publ. 2019), Thought (III, forthcoming 2024), History: South Asia, IV-1 (forthcoming 2023), History: Central and East Asia, IV-2 (2023) Life and Practice, V (forthcoming 2026), index and remaining issues VI (forthcoming 2027).


Each volume contains substantial original essays by many of the world’s foremost scholars, essays which not only cover basic information and well-known issues but which also venture into areas as yet untouched by modern scholarship. An essential tool for anyone interested in Buddhism, the online resource will provide easy access to the encyclopedia’s ever-growing corpus of information.
The online edition of History: Central and East Asia, IV-2, has been published online in November 2023 with further volumes following after their original publication in print.


Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism is under the general editorial control of Jonathan Silk (Leiden University, editor-in-chief). Each volume has a dedicated board of specialist editors and in later volumes also a volume editor; in the series so far this includes Richard Bowring (University of Cambridge), Vincent Eltschinger (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris), Oskar von Hinuber (Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg) and Michael Radich (Heidelberg University).



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Early Sarvāstivāda Masters

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Autor(en): Dessein, Bart
Of the many Sarvāstivāda masters in India, four stand out for having been connected to four peculiar interpretations of the nature of and reason why entities ( dharmas) that have an unchanging substance ( dravya) proceed through the three time periods (past, present, and future). These four masters are, namely, Vasumitra (Shiyou [世友]; Poxumi [婆須 蜜]), Dharmatrāta (Fajiu [法救]; Damodanluoduo [達磨呾邏多]), Ghoṣaka (Miaoyin [妙音]; Jusha [懼沙]; Qusha [瞿沙]; Jusha [巨沙]), and Buddhadeva (Juetian [覺天]). The earliest extant source for the four interpretations is probably the *Āryavasumitrasaṃgṛh…
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Early Scripture Commentary

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Autor(en): Oskar von Hinüber
A complete set of commentaries and subcommentaries on the Theravāda Tipiṭaka is preserved in the original language (Pali). This commentarial tradition begins with texts embedded in the Tipiṭaka and ends in late subcommentaries written during the 19th century. Theravāda commentaries are listed together with the basic text (Tipiṭaka) in H. Smith (1948). Commentaries of other schools usually survive only as translations, with the exception of important fragments of very early commentaries in Gandhari.It is impossible to date the first Theravāda commentaries. However, i…
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Editors and Editorial Board

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Bowring, Richard, is Professor Emeritus of Japanese Studies at the University of Cambridge, having held previous posts at Monash, Columbia and Princeton. He is known for his wide-ranging interest in many aspects of Japanese culture, from Murasaki Shikibu to Mori Ōgai. His more recent work includes two books on the religious and intellectual history of Japan: The Religious Traditions of Japan, 500–1600 (2005) and In Search of the Way: Thought and Religion in Early-Modern Japan, 1582–1860 (2017). Dolce, Lucia, is Numata Reader in Japanese Buddhism and Chair of the Centre fo…
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Editors and Editorial Board

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Ahn, Juhn Y., is associate professor of Buddhist and Korean Studies at the University of Michigan and the author of Buddhas and Ancestors: Religion and Wealth in Fourteenth-Century Korea (University of Washington Press, 2018), Transgression in Korea: Beyond Resistance and Control (University of Michigan Press, 2018), and Gongan Collections I, Collected Works of Korean Buddhism, Vol. 7–1 (Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism, 2012). His current research focuses on the economic history of Korea during the Koryŏ period (918–1392), reading practices in Song-dy…
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Datum: 2023-10-01