Annual Report of The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology

(ARIRIAB) at Soka University for the Academic Year 2004

Vol. VIII March, 2005 ISSN 1343-8980 CONTENTS *: paper written in Japanese ! RESEARCH ARTICLES: *Akira YUYAMA: Further Notes on the Island of La!k *Noriyuki KUDO: Philological Notes on the Quotations in the (Mah-)Karmavibha!ga (2): Prvparntakastra / Devatstra Klaus WILLE: Some recently identified Sanskrit fragments from the Stein and Hoernle collections in the British Library, London (1) Seishi KARASHIMA: Two Sanskrit Fragments of the Pacaviatishasrik Prajpramit in the Mannerheim Collection Seishi KARASHIMA: A Trilingual Edition of the Lotus Sutra --- New editions of the Sanskrit, Tibetan and Chinese versions (3) Seishi KARASHIMA: An Old Tibetan Translation of the Lotus Sutra from Khotan: The Romanised Text Collated with the Kanjur Version (1) Peter SKILLING: Cutting across categories: The ideology of relics in Buddhism Jan NATTIER: The Proto-History of the Buddhvata"saka: The Pusa benye jing and the Dousha jing Seishi KARASHIMA and Jan NATTIER: Qiuluzi , An Early Chinese Name for riputra *Akira YUYAMA: Miscellanea Philologica Buddhica (III)

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Brief Communication: Stefano ZACCHETTI: An Additional Note on the Terms and in the Kongo-ji Manuscript Text of An Shigaos Shier men jing ! IRIAB BULLETIN: IRIAB Activities List of Publications of the IRIAB Director and Fellows Books/Journals Received ! EDITORIALS: Contributors to this Issue / Editorial Postscript New Publication ! PLATES S. Karashima, Two Sanskrit Fragments of the Pacaviatishasrik Prajpramit Mannerheim Fragments Nos. 7, 8 Facsimiles reproduced by courtesy of the Finno-Ugrian Society S. Karashima, An Old Tibetan Translation of the Lotus Sutra from Khotan Facsimiles reproduced by courtesy of the Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm 395

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