Buddhist Asia, Volume 1

This volume contains the collected papers presented during the first conference on Buddhist Studies. The conference was held in May of 2001 in honor of the inauguration of the new Centre for Buddhist Studies (Centro di Studi sul Buddhismo) at the Universita "L'Orientale" in Naples, Italy. The collected papers reference Indo-Tibetan and East Asian traditions and disciplines including art history, archaeology, philology, textual criticism, and religious and intellectual history. All the contributors were at the time faculty members or graduate students in the Department of Asian Studies.

This collection is part of a series by the Italian School of East Asian Studies (ISEAS) research institute, which focuses on the history, culture, literature, and religion of East Asia. Unless otherwise noted, all books are primarily in English, with references in Chinese and Japanese for important terms, concepts and bibliographical sources throughout.