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A Handbook of Pali Literature (1996) – Oskar von Hinüber

Violently Peaceful: Tibetan Self-Immolation and the Problem of the Non/Violence Binary (2015) – John Soboslai

Translation as Innovation in Literature: The Case of a Sanskrit Buddhist Poem Translated Into Chinese (2015) – Laura Lettere

Translation, Transcription, and What Else?: Some Basic Characteristics of Chinese Buddhist Translation as a Cultural Contact between India and China, with Special Reference to Sanskrit ārya and Chinese shèng (2019) – Toru Funayama

Linguistically, China remained China even after this massive import of Indian culture. Nevertheless, there are some non-negligible aspects of Indian Buddhist language that contributed [to] the Chinese language.

Featured in the course, " Chinese Buddhist Writing"

In the Footprints of the Buddha: Ceylon and the Japanese Quest for the Origin of Buddhism (2019) – Fabio Rambelli

… when the Japanese kept insisting that Buddhism was a specific religion that originated in north India, westerners were puzzled. There was no cult of Buddha in India, and northern India in particular was largely Muslim.

Stone Hymn: The Buddhist Colophon of 579 Engraved on Mount Tie, Shandong (2019) – Lothar Ledderose

Love, Unknowing, and Female Filth: The Buddhist Discourse of Birth as a Vector of Social Change for Monastic Women in Premodern South Asia (2021) – Amy Paris Langenberg

… the Buddhist tale of the impure, disgusting, and violent female body and the suffering of the fetus within the womb, so seemingly negative toward women, in fact operated discursively and affectively to support premodern female Buddhist monasticism by helping to generate a moral-social imaginary in which female fertility and sexuality cannot be the highest good of womanhood.

Aśoka and the Use of Writing in Ancient India (2024) – Ingo Strauch