The introductory survey “Eleven years of works on Buddhism in Europe” reviews the state of Buddhist studies across Europe from May 1936 to May 1947, a tumultuous decade that spanned the Second World…
This obituary commemorates Jean Przyluski (1885–1944), a renowned French scholar of Asian studies. Born in Le Mans, Przyluski served as a colonial administrator in Indochina, where he learned…
This article analyses a Tibetan document found at Tun-huang describing a significant dharmadana organised by King Khri-gcug-lde-brcan. The document records the king’s offering of hundreds of copies…
This brief article analyses a Tibetan manuscript (Pelliot Tibetan Collection No. 241) that appears to prefigure themes of the Karandavyuha, a Mahayana sutra extolling Avalokiteśvara. The text, which…