Buddhism in Kashmir

Contents: 1. Foreword/Karan Singh. 2. Introduction/Nirmala Sharma. 3. Samghabhadra, a great Kashmirian master/K.L. Dhammajoti. 4. Buddhist art of Shivaliks: Ambaran the earliest monastery in Jammu Lalit Gupta. 5. Deification of the Buddha vis-a-vis his inclusion in the Hindu pantheon with special reference to Nilamata purana and Ksemendra's Dasavatara carita/Baidyanath Labh. 6. Naropa's Mahamudra Upadesa/Andrea Loseries. 7. Is there a mind body problem in Buddhism/Victoria Lysenko. 8. Buddhist art and architecture of Kashmir/Gulshan Majeed. 9. The language of advice in early Buddhist texts/Barbara Meisterenst. 10. Kumarajiva and his contribution to Buddhism in China/Ajay K. Mishra. 11. Buddhism in Kashmir/Wangchuk Dorjee Negi. 12. Buddhism in Kashmir from the Tibetan perspective/Khampo Phanday. 13. Under the shadow of Sakyamuni: Buddhism in Kashmir/Riyaz Punjabi. 14. Some reflections on the twilight period of Buddhism in the Kashmir Valley/K.T.S. Sarao. 15. Kashmir and the renaissance of Buddhist art and literature in the tenth century/Nirmala Sharma. 16. Making of the history of Ch'an Buddhism/Shanker Thapa. 17. Remarks about the history of Sarvastivada in Northwestern India/Charles Willemen. 18. Buddhism and contemporary Kashmiri culture/Mustafa Khawaha alias M.H. Zaffar. Index.

Buddhism in Kashmir has the contributions of sixteen professors from India, Hongkong, Moscow, Berlin, Kathmandu and Bangkok. It details the work of Kashmiri masters in the transmission of sutras to China, the legendary visit of Lao-tzu to Kashmir, the role of Kashmiri teachers in Khotan and Tibet, the articulation of Vaibhasika doctrines by Sanghabhadra in a Chinese translation by Xuan zang, Buddhist terracottas, stupas and monastery in Ambaran Jammu deification of the Buddha in the Hindu pantheon, comparison of Naropa's Mahamudra upadesa nd Kasmir Saivism, mind body problem in Buddhism, Buddhist art and architecture of Kashmir, Language of advice in early Chinese Buddhist texts, Kumarajiva's contribution, Buddhism of Kashmir and Tibet, Sunyata in Lal Ded and Nund Rishi, twilight period of Buddhism in Kashmir, rin.chen.bzan.po's renaissance, Kashmir meditation propagated by Buddhabhadra in fifth century China, Sarvastivada synod in Kashmir, Buddhism and contemporary Kashmiri culture. (jacket)