Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Volume One

Jonathan Silk is professor in the study of Buddhism at Leiden University. His research centers on the scriptural literature of Indian Buddhism. Vincent Eltschinger has been a research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2003. His research focuses on the genealogy and the religious background of late Indian Buddhist philosophy. Among his numerous publications, mention can be made of Buddhist Epistemology as Apologetics (Vienna, 2014) and a series of articles dedicated to the sources and polemical targets of Aśvaghoṣa. Oskar von Hinüber is professor emeritus at the Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg and ordinary member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz, foreign ordinary member (Associé étranger) of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris, and corresponding member of the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna. He has mainly published in the fields of ancient Indian cultural history, historical grammar and literature of Middle Indo-Aryan languages, the Buddhist manuscript tradition, and epigraphy.

Preliminary Table of Contents
Volume I

Scriptural:

General: Canonicity; Tripiṭaka; Āgama / Nikāya; Abhidharma; Dazangjing; Kanjur; Tanjur

Mahāyāna Sūtra Literature: Overview; Buddhāvataṃsaka; Dhāraṇī Sūtras; Laṅkāvatāra; Lotus Sūtra; Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra; Prajñāpāramitā; Pure Land Sūtras;Samādhirāja; Sandhinirmocana; Suvarṇabhāsottama; Tathāgatagarbha; Vimalakīrtinirdeśa; Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha; Mahāyāna Sūtra Anthologies

Tantric Literature: Overview; Catuṣpītha; Guhyasamāja; Hevajra; Kālacakra; Mañjuśrīnāmasaṃgīti; Śamvara; Sarvabuddhasamāyogaḍākinījālaśaṃvara; Sarvavtathāgatatattvasaṃgraha; Vairocanābhisaṃbodhi; Rnying ma; Gter ma

Vinaya Literature; Vinayas; Vinaya Commentarial Literature in Pali; Monastic Organizational Guidelines

Nonscriptural:
Commentary: Early Scripture Commentary; Abhidharma Commentarial Literature; Mahāyāna Sūtra Commentaries: East Asia; Tantric Commentaries: India; Rishukyo and Its Commentarial Tradition; Putixinlun

Belles Lettres: Narratives: South Asia; Poetry: South Asia; Narratives: Tibet; Poetry: China: Pre-Song; Poetry: China: Song and After; Narratives and Drama: China; Narratives: Japan; Poetry: Japan; Korean Buddhist Literature in Korean; Korean Buddhist Literature in Chinese; Narrative: Southeast Asia

Dramatic Works: South Asia; Tibet; Central Asia; Japan; Philosophical Literature; India; Tibet; China; Korea; Japan

Ritual Texts: South Asia; New Tantras (Gsar ma); Rnying ma; Korea; Chinese (Esoteric) Buddhist Liturgical Manuals from Dunhuang; Fang Yankou Rites; Chinese Tantric Texts in Court Circles; Tantric Ritual Manuals in East Asia; Chan Literature

Biography and Hagiography: Epistolary Literature; Tibet; Japan

Teaching Literature: Tantric Prakaraṇas; Debate Literature: Japan; Doxography: Tibet; Iconography

Historiography: South Asia; Tibet; China; Japan; Thailand and Laos; Burma

Local Literatures: Tamil; Nepal; Bön; Sogdian; Tangut/Xixia; Khotanese; Uighur; Mongolia; Japan; Yunnan; Sri Lanka; Mainland Southeast Asia

Languages: Indic; Tibetan; Central Asian Languages; Chinese; Southeast Asian Languages

Physical Bases: Manuscripts and Printing: South, Southeast, and Central Asia; Manuscripts and Printing: Tibet; Manuscripts and Printing: East Asia; Epigraphy: South Asia; Epigraphy: Southeast Asia; Epigraphy: Tibet and Central Asia; Epigraphy: East Asia