The Buddhist forum. Volume III, 1991-1993 : papers in honour and appreciation of Professor David Seyfort Ruegg's contribution to Indological, Buddhist and Tibetan studies

Papers in honour and appreciation of Professor David Seyfort Ruegg’s contribution to Indological, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies Contents 6 Preface 8 Abreviations 10 BF 3.1 Eimer & Tsering: Works of David Ruegg 14 BF 3.2 Gethin: Legs skar /Skar bzang / Sunakṣatra 23 BF 3.3 Hara: Bhavaṅga and Rebirth According to the Abhidhamma 33 BF 3.4 Hodge: Considerations on the Dating and Geographical Origins of the Mahāvairocanābhisaṃbodhi-sūtra 77 BF 3.5 Jackson: The Status of Pramāṇa Doctrine According to Sa skya Paṇḍita and Other Tibetan Masters: Theoretical Discipline or Doctrine of Liberation? 104 BF 3.6 Kvaerne: The Bon Religion of Tibet: A Survey of Research 149 BF 3.7 Lang: Meditation as a Tool For Deconstructing the Phenomenal World 160 BF 3.8 Lopez: dGe ’dun Chos ’phel’s Position on Vigrahavyāvartinī 29d 177 BF 3.9 McFarlane: Fighting Bodhisattvas and Inner Warriors: Buddhism and the Martial Traditions of China and Japan 201 BF 3.10 Norman (Nibbana): Fighting Bodhisattvas and Inner Warriors: Buddhism and the Martial Traditions of China and Japan 227 BF 3.11 Norman (Rummindei): A Note on silāvigaḍabhīcā in Aśoka’s Rummindei Inscription -1 BF 3.12 Piatigorsky: Some Observations on the Notion of Tathāgatagarbha 253 BF 3.13 Scherrer-Schaub: Tendance de la pensée de Candrakīrti, Buddhajñāna et Jinakriyā 262 BF 3.14 Schopen: Stūpa and Tīrtha: Tibetan Mortuary Practices and an Unrecognized Form of Burial Ad Sanctos at Buddhist Sites in India 286 BF 3.1 Tillemans: Pre-Dharmakīrti Commentators on Dignāga’s Definition of a Thesis (pakṣalakṣaṇa) 307 BF 3.16 Williams: On Altruism and Rebirth Philosophical Comments on Bodhicaryāvatāra 8: 97–8 318 BF 3.17 Pagel: The Bodhisattvapiṭaka and Akṣayamatinirdeśa: Continuity and Change in Buddhist Sūtras 344 BF 3.18 Skorupski: A Prayer for Rebirth in the Sukhāvatī 385 BF 3.19 Bibliography 420 Buddhism,Buddhist studies Buddhism, Buddhist studies