India and Asia : P.C. Bagchi Centenary Volume

Contents: Preface. I. On Prabodh Chandra Bagchi: 1. Prabodh Chandra Bagchi: a life sketch/Ratna Sinha. 2. Prabodh Chandra Bagchi: as an Indologist/Amitabha Bhattacharyya. 3. Prabodh Chandra Bagchi: The Sino-Indologist/Haraprasad Ray. 4. Prabodh Chandra Bagchi: His contribution to Tibetan studies/Alaka Chattopadhyaya. 5. Prabodh Chandra Bagchi and Tibetan studies/S.K. Pathak. 6. Prabodh Chandra Bagchi and Central Asian Studies/B.N. Mukherjee. 7. Dr. Prabodh Chandra Bagchi: an orientalist/Kalyan Kumar Sarka. 8. P.C. Bagchi and China: A note on a gift from the Peking University/Yun-hua Jan. 9. Scholars on Dr. Prabodh Chandra Bagchi/K.K. Sarkar. 10. In praise of Prabodh Chandra Bagchi (1898-1956)/Akira Yuyama. 11. Relations between the Indian and Chinese Civilizations/Tan Chung. II. Articles in honour of Prabodh Chandra Bagchi: 1. Absence of scientific history from ancient Indian period: how and why?/Ge Weijun. 2. Hunger and food in the Vedic Samhitas/Sukumari Bhattacharji. 3. Problems in Pali Orthography/K.R. Norman. 4. Wang Xuance\'s Missions to India in the light of new evidence/Bangwei Wang. 5. Two traditions of Hindu Asceticism/Andrew Stuart. 6. Tantra Buddhism: Kalacakrayana/Biswanath Benerjee. 7. On the Tantric concepts of Kula and Akula/Andre Padoux. 8. The four Yoga penetrations (Nirvedha-Bhagiya) in the Buddhist Anuttarayoga Tantra/Alex Wayman. 9. A Ganguli Rajaguru under the coals/R. Nagaswamy. 10. Gopuras of the temples/I.K. Sarma. 11. Buddhism and Ajanta Painting/Asok K. Bhattacharya. 12. A useful glimpse from a Silpa text/Tirthankar Bhattacharya. 13. A stone image of Buddha from the environs of Jagajjibanpur (District Malda) and a small metal image of Buddha from Tulabhita (in Jagajjibanpur)/Debala Mitra. 14. Revanta/Dilip Kumar Biswas. 15. The Goddess Laksmi and the Owl/D.C. Bhattacharyya. 16. Aryan migration from Central Asia/Ram Sharan Sharma. 17. Central Asia: the limits and periodisation of its relations with India/B.N. Mukherjee. 18. China, Central Asia and India: the early phase (206 B.C.--A.D. 23), with translation of the relevant Chinese records/Haraprasad Ray. 19. A dialogue on Buddhist meditation from the early Tang Dynasty: the Xiuchan Yaojue/Henrik H. Sorensen. 20. The essentials and prospects of China\'s traditional culture/Huang Xinchuan. 21. The characteristics and interaction of the traditional religions in China/W. Pachow. 22. Experimental poetry in China during the 1920s/Amitendranath Tagore. 23. The Rama Katha: contact and adjustment in Southeast Asia/Pranabananda Jash. 24. A note on the present state of work on the Sanskrit epigraphy of Cambodia: King Rajendravarman, a true Ksatriya/Kamaleswar Bhattacharya. Select bibliography. Some books and articles on P.C. Bagchi. A list of obituaries. Pictures. Some letters from Sylvain Levi to P.C. Bagchi. List of contributors.