"At the Shores of the Sky": Asian Studies for Albert Hoffstädt

323 Pages·2020·1.986 MB·English

by  Paul W. Kroll, Jonathan A. Silk

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“At the Shores of the Sky”
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“At the Shores of the Sky”
Asian Studies for Albert Hoffstädt
Edited by
Paul W. Kroll
Jonathan A. Silk
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Title: “At the shores of the sky” : Asian studies for Hoffstädt / Edited
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Contents
Contributors VIII X
Albert Hoffstädt: A Tribute 1
The Editors
1 What Language Was Spoken by the People of the Bactria-Margiana
Archaeological Complex? 5
Alexander Lubotsky
2 India’s Past Reconsidered 12
Johannes Bronkhorst
3 A Trust Rooted in Ignorance: Why Ānanda’s Lack of Understanding
Makes Him a Reliable Witness to the Buddha’s Teachings 23
Jonathan A. Silk
4 On the Early History of the Brahmanical Yugas 38
Vincent Eltschinger
5 Size Matters: The Length of Korea’s History and the Size of Its Historical
Territory 54
Remco Breuker
6 Polyglot Translators: Chinese, Dutch, and Japanese in the Introduction of
Western Learning in Tokugawa Japan 62
Martin J. Heijdra
7 Overcoming Distance 76
Richard Bowring
8 Beyond Nativism: Reflections on Methodology and Ethics in the Study of
Early China 83
Martin Kern
9 Taking Horace to the Yellow Springs: Notes on Death and Alcohol in
Chinese Poetry and Philosophy 99
Jan De Meyer
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10 On Some Verses of Li Bo 113
A Trust Rooted in Ignorance: Why Ānanda’s Lack of Understanding Makes Him a Reliable Witness to the Buddha’s Teachings 23
Paul W. Kroll
11 An Early Medieval Chinese Poem on Leaving Office and Retiring to the
Countryside 129
David R. Knechtges
12 Lu Ji’s Theory of Reading and Writing: Medieval Chinese Anxieties about
Literary Creation 142
Wendy Swartz
13 Terms of Friendship: Bylaws for Associations of Buddhist Laywomen in
Medieval China 154
Stephen F. Teiser
14 Women in the Religious and Publishing Worlds of Buddhist Master
Miaokong (1826–1880) 173
Beata Grant
15 Chinese Dualism Revisited 185
John Lagerwey
16 An Ant and a Man, a Rock and a Woman: Preliminary Notes toward an
Alternate History of Chinese Worldviews 199
Robert Ford Campany
17 Self-Portrait of a Narcissist 211
Pierre-Étienne Will
18 The Mask of Comedy in A Couple of Soles 230
Robert E. Hegel
19 Making Up for a Loss: The Tragedy of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai in
Modern Zaju 244
Wilt L. Idema
20 Transgression as Rule: Freebooters in Chinese Poetry 262
Maghiel van Crevel
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21 Horatius Sinensis 280
Michael Lackner
22 The Hazards of the Use of English as a Default Language in Analytic
Philosophy: An Essay on Conceptual Biodiversity  292
Christoph Harbsmeier
Index 309
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Contributors
Richard Bowring
Professor Emeritus of Japanese Studies, University of Cambridge
Remco Breuker
Professor of Korean Studies, Leiden University
Johannes Bronkhorst
Professor Emeritus of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, University of Lausanne
Robert Ford Campany
Professor of Asian Studies, Vanderbilt University
Jan De Meyer
Independent Scholar
Vincent Eltschinger
Professor of Indian Buddhism, École Pratique des Hautes Études
Beata Grant
Professor of Chinese and Religious Studies, Washington University–St. Louis
Christoph Harbsmeier
Professor of Chinese, University of Oslo
Robert E. Hegel
Professor Emeritus of Chinese, Washington University–St. Louis
Martin J. Heijdra
Director, East Asian Library, Princeton University
Wilt L. Idema
Professor Emeritus of Chinese, Harvard University
Martin Kern
Professor of Chinese, Princeton University
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David R. Knechtges
Professor Emeritus of Chinese, University of Washington
Paul W. Kroll
Professor Emeritus of Chinese, University of Colorado
Michael Lackner
Professor of Chinese Studies, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen
John Lagerwey
Professor of Chinese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Alexander Lubotsky
Professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, Leiden University
Jonathan A. Silk
Professor in the study of Buddhism, Leiden University
Wendy Swartz
Professor of Chinese, Rutgers University
Stephen F. Teiser
Professor of Religion and Buddhist Studies, Princeton University
Maghiel van Crevel
Professor of Chinese, Leiden University
Pierre-Étienne Will
Professor Emeritus of Modern Chinese History, Collège de France
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