Cultural Horizons of India, Vol. 3: Studies in Tantra and Buddhism, Art and Archaeology, Language and Literature/Lokesh Chandra. Edited by Tara Chandrika. , 1993, 453 p., figs.,

Contents: 1. Evolution of the tantras. 2. Trapusa and Bhallika. 3. Oddiyana: a new interpretation. 4. Stone inscription of Kuluta from Mathura. 5. Portraits of two Kushan princes and of Subhakara. 6. Comparative study of the Chinese and Uigur invocation to Sarasvati. 7. Pagan bronze image of Vajrasana-Buddha. 8. Gilgit fragment of the Pratimoksa-sutra. 9. Legend of Krsna: Hellenistic echoes. 10. The Sutra route: the beyond within. 11. Avalokitesvara in Tun-huang paintings. 12. Flying goddesses. 13. Role of the Lotus Sutra in the twenty-first century. 14. India and Sri Lanka. 15. French research on the interrelation of India, Serindia and China. 16. Ayurveda in Asia. 17. The flesh and blood of time. 18. The Cyavana-Vidanvat legend in the Jaiminiya Brahmana. 19. Studies in the Jaiminiya-Brahmana. 20. A Sanskrit text on alankara from Indonesia. 21. The Raghu Vira Award to President Daisaku Ikeda. 22. The vision of President Daisaku Ikeda. 23. President Ikeda: the mind of yonder time. 24. Eternal melody of the poetic spirit. 25. The Mani stone. 26. Tibetan works printed by the Shoparkhang of the Potala. 27. Les imprimeries Tibetaines de Drepung, Derge et Pepung. 28. Tibetan Buddhist texts printed by the Mdzod-dge sgar-gsar monastery. 29. Nama-sangiti is a hymn of advaya names. 30. The life and works of Hjam-dbyans-bzhad-pa. 31. Contents of two Tibetan hippological treatises. 32. A conspectus of the Mongolian Tanjur. 33. Chronology of Buddhism in Siberian Buryatia. 34. Ganesa in Tibet. Literature cited. Index. No. 7889

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