Connecting the Art, Literature and Religion of South and Central Asia: Studies in Honour of Monika Zin

Contents: Preface. Tabula Gratulatoria. Monika Zin: Bibliography. 1. An Initial Survey of the Iconography of Yulin Cave 33: With an Emphasis on the Tableau Depicting Maras’s Attack and Temptation/Christoph Anderl. 2. Discovery and Preservation of Wall Paintings from the Buddhist Monuments of Old Termez, Southern Uzbekistan/Otabek Y.  Aripdjanov. 3. Two Inscribed Seals from Gandhara/Stefan Baums. 4. “The Well-Farer of the world is not easily led away”: Revisiting the Paintings of the Maha-rajalena of the Dambulla Raja Mahavihara (Sri Lanka)/Osmund Bopearachchi. 5. Regionale Besonderheiten in den jataka-Darstellungen Zentralasiens/Chang Wen-ling. 6. An Unromantic Approach: Dhyanagupta’s (aka Jnanagupta) Fo-benxing-ji-jing/Max Deeg. 7. Uberlieferung Uber die Reste der Sternbildhohle – Sangim 6/Caren Dreyer.  8. Some Visual Symbols and Metaphors for the Buddha’s parinirvana/Jorinde Ebert. 9. Reaching the Skies, Governing Time: Sun and Moon as Attributes of Indian Deities/Marion Frenger. 10. Der Buddha auf dem Schlangenthron in der Kunst der Khmer: Eine neuerliche Betrachtung des wichtigsten Buddha-Bildes der Angkor-Periode/Adalbert J. Gail. 11. Collars and Wing Sleeves as Marks of Buddhist Royal Patronage/Mariachiara Gasparini. 12. Das Buddha-Reliquiar auf dem Kopf: Eine buddhistische Idee zwischen Kunst und Philoso- phie/Hiromi Habata. 13. Contextualising the Spread of Buddhism beyond Gandhara in the Light of the Newly Discovered Fragment of a ’Portable Shrine’ Type Buddhist Diptych from Southern Punjab/Muhammad Hameed and Muhammad Hassan Khokhar. 14. Trauer um die Großmutter und Trost vom Buddha: Das aryika-sutra/Jens-Uwe Hartmann. 15. Two Newly Found Bronze Statues with Sanskrit Inscription Originating from Historical Northwest India/Haiyan Hu-von HinUber and Luo Wenhua. 16. Feminine, Wise, Divine: Mayadevi, the Buddha’s Wondrous Mother, in Early Western Tibetan Temples’ Narrative Cycles/Christiane Kalantari. 17. The Owner of a Residential Building or Monastery ( sami[ ka], avasasamika, viharasami[ ka]) in the Theravada Tradition/Petra Kieffer-PUlz. 18. Nidhi s, Sabaras and the Northern Passage/Gerald Kozicz. 19. Bhadrasana und der vierfache Jina: Anmerkungen zur Symbolik jinistischer ayagapata s/Patrick KrUger. 20. Das Maitreyavyakaranavadana (Nr. 16) in der Bodhisattvavadanakalpalata/Zhen Liu. 21. Some Remarks on Rawak (Khotan Oasis, Xinjiang): The Stupa, Clay Sculptures and Wall Paintings/Ciro Lo Muzio. 22. New Light on Vedic rodasi ‘Heaven and Earth’/Melanie Malzahn. 23. On gandı and granthi/Dieter Maue. 24. How Budha, the Planet Mercury, Became an Enlightened Buddha/Gerd J. R. Mevissen. 25. Aspects of Mahayana Buddhist Art in Gandhara: Focusing on the Iconography of Steles of the Triad Type and Emanation Type/Akira Miyaji. 26. Would You like Some Wine? Remarks on a Revelling Scene from Zar-dheri/Jessie Pons. 27. When Is a Fool Not a Fool? Learning from Panthaka/Andy Rotman. 28. Traces of Indian Astrology in the Naksatra Cave in Sengim and in the Turfan Region: First Considerations/Lilla Russell-Smith. 29. Tracing Donations to Buddhist Monasteries in Texts and Inscriptions: Kizil, Balochistan, Termez/Richard Salomon. 30. Haṃsa: Flying Geese at Kizil/Arcangela Santoro. 31. Attitudes Toward the Wealth and Comfort of Monks and Monasteries in a Buddhist Monastic Code/Gregory Schopen. 32. Iconography of the Buddha Images of the Sravasti Miracles in the Art of Dvaravati/Natchapol Sirisawad. 33. Tapussa and Bhallika in Thai Painting/Peter Skilling (Bhadra Rujirathat). 34. Smiling Buddhas from Gandhara/Katsumi Tanabe. 35. Symbolism of the Grape in Early Indian Buddhist Art/Tadashi Tanabe. 36. Revisiting the Dipamkara Story in Gandharan Buddhist Art/Tianshu Zhu. 37. Avalokitesvara mit altuigurischen Inschriften aus der Bazaklik-Grotte 46/Peter Zieme. 

This volume is dedicated to Prof. Dr. Monika Zin, an outstanding art historian of international standing in the field of early Buddhist art of South and Central Asia. In her numerous publications, she examines art objects and their iconography in connection with literary sources, cultural, religious, and historical backgrounds, as well as the transregional networks of the early Buddhist world concealed behind them. She thus opens up many new exciting perspectives and scholarly questions. With this volume, the editors and numerous authors from many countries around the world, whose works have been inspired in many ways by the scholarly work of Monika Zin, honour the jubilarian with a rich collection of contributions on the art, literature, and religion of South and Central Asia.