Further Articles
2026
Sørensen, Henrik H. “On the Concept of Effortlessness and Non-Activity in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Practice, with Focus on Chan During the Tang.” In Special Issue: Contemplation and Non-Doing: Solitude, Absorption and Letting-be as Structural Principles of Contemplative Religious Practice, edited by Dylan Esler. Entangled Religions 14.4 (2026). https://doi.org/10.46586/er.14.2026.13032
2025
Meinert, Carmen. “The Great Wisdom Mind is like the Light of the Sky: Light Metaphors in the Early Tibetan Buddhist Dzogchen Tradition.” In Special Issue: More Light on the Metaphors of Light, edited by Carmen Meinert and Vivien Staps. Metaphor Papers 26 (2025), 44 pp.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.448.601
Meinert, Carmen and Dylan Esler.. “Tibet I: The Imperial and Early Post-Imperial Period (7th–10th Cent.).” In Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism Online. Volume IV-1: History—South Asia; Western Central Asia; Southeast Asia; Tibetan Sphere of Influence, edited by Jonathan Silk et al. Leiden: Brill, 2025, 21,282 words. https://doi.org/10.1163/2467-9666_enbo_COM_4132
Print version forthcoming.
2023
Sørensen, Henrik H. “Buddhism in Dunhuang.” In Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Volume Four. History: Part Two: Central and East Asia, edited by Richard Bowring and Vincent Eltschinger, 27a–42b. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2023. https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/entries/ENBO/COM-4208.xml
Kasai, Yukiyo. “Review: Avalokiteśvara-Sūtras. Edition altuigurischer Übersetzungen nach Fragmenten aus Turfan und Dunhuang by Peter Zieme and Kara György.” Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 118.2 (2023): 142–145.
Kasai, Yukiyo. “Manichaeism and Buddhism in Contact: The Significance of the Uyghur History and Its Literary Tradition.” Entangled Religions 14.2 (2023). https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/article/view/9645/9714
2022
Kasai, Yukiyo. “Central Asian and Iranian Influence in Old Uyghur Buddhist Manuscripts: Book Forms and Donor Colophons.” In The Syntax of Colophons. A Comparative Study across Pothi Manuscripts, edited by Nalini Balbir and Giovanni Ciotti, 373–397. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, 2022.
Reviews:
von Hinüber, Oskar. “Review: The Syntax of Colophons. A Comparative Study across Pothi Manuscripts edited by Nalini Balbir and Giovanni Ciotti.” Indo-Iranian Journal 67.1 (2023): 81–101. https://brill.com/view/journals/iij/67/1/article-p81_4.xml?ebody=article%20details
2021
Kasai, Yukiyo, ed. “Dynamics, Stability & Tradition: The Role of the Religions of Iranian Speakers in Central and Eastern Asia.” Entangled Religions 11.6 (2020–2022) Special Issue. https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/issue/view/191
Selected Articles:
Kasai, Yukiyo. “Special Issue Introduction.” https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/article/view/9771/9293
Mukai, Masaki. “The Complexity of Religious Traditions in Quanzhen 泉州 under Mongol Rule: An Inscription from Chunyang 純陽 Cave in Mt. Qingyuan 清源, Quanzhou.” https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/article/view/9746/9268
Esler, Dylan and Yukiyo Kasai, ed. Buddhist Rituals and Practices in Central Asia: Texts and Material Culture (Special panel of four articles). Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 44 (2021): 405–556, Open Access.
Articles:
Esler, Dylan and Yukiyo Kasai. “Introduction—Buddhist Rituals and Practices in Central Asia: Texts and Material Culture.” Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 44 (2021): 405–408, Open Access. esler_and_kasai_2021_introduction_jiabs_44.pdf
Esler, Dylan. “Negotiating the Absence of Ritual: Dzogchen in the Tantric Manuscripts of Dunhuang and Beyond.” Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 44 (2021): 409–440, Open Access. esler_2021_negotiating_the_absence_of_ritual_jiabs_44.pdf
Meinert, Carmen. “Production of Tantric Buddhist Texts in the Tangut Empire (11th to13th C.): Insights from Reading Karakhoto Manuscript ф 249 + ф 327 金剛亥母修習儀 Jingang haimu xiuxi yi [The Ritual of the Yogic Practice of Vajravārāhī] in Comparison with other Tantric Ritual Texts.” Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 44 (2021): 441–484, Open Access. meinert_2021_production_of_tantric_buddhist_texts_jiabs_44.pdf
Sørensen, Henrik H. “Ritual and Worship in Medieval Chinese Buddhism On Mañjuśrī's Formless Worship as Reflected in the Dunhuang Material.” Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 44 (2021): 485–525, Open Access. sorensen_2021_ritual_and_worship_in_medieval_chinese_buddhism_jiabs_44.pdf
Kasai, Yukiyo. “Talismans Used by the Uyghur Buddhists and their Relationship with the Chinese Tradition.” Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 44 (2021): 527–556, Open Access. kasai_2021_talismans_used_by_uyghur_buddhists_jiabs_44.pdf
Doney, Lewis. “Text, Act and Subject: A Proposed Approach to the Future Study of Old Tibetan Prayer.” Revue d'Études Tibétaines 60 (2021): 49–83. http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/ret/pdf/ret_60_03.pdf
Kasai, Yukiyo, ed. “Dynamics, Stability & Tradition: The Role of the Religions of Iranian Speakers in Central and Eastern Asia." Entangled Religions 11.6 (2020–2022) Special Issue. https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/issue/view/191
Selected Articles:
Chen, Ruixuan. “Lurching Towards a Canon. Mahāyāna Sūtras in Khotanese Garb.” https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/article/view/8774/8381
Hunter, Erica C.D. “Turfan: Connecting with Seleucia-Ctesiphon.” https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/article/view/8779/8431
Lurje, Pavel B. “Buddhist Indian Loanwords in Sogdian and the Development of Sogdian Buddhism.” https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/article/view/9279/8830.
Reck, Christiane. “The Sogdians and their Religions in Turfan: Evidence in the Catalogue of the Middle Iranian Fragments in Sogdian Script of the Berlin Turfan Collection.” https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/article/view/9222/8839
2020
Sørensen, Henrik H. “Offerings and the Production of Buddhist Scriptures in Dunhuang during the Tenth Century.” Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies 3.1 (2020): 70–107. https://glorisunglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/hualin3.1_sorensen.pdf
Kasai, Yukiyo, ed. “Dynamics, Stability & Tradition: The Role of the Religions of Iranian Speakers in Central and Eastern Asia.” Entangled Religions 11.6 (2020–2022) Special Issue. https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/issue/view/191
Selected Articles:
Colditz, Iris. “Buddhist and Indian Elements in the Onomastics of the Iranian Manichaean Texts.” https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/article/view/8710/8353
Deeg, Max. “The 'Brilliant Teaching': Iranian Christians in Tang China and Their Identity.” https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/article/view/8674/8310
2019
Meinert, Carmen. “Embodying the Divine in Tantric Ritual Practice: Examples from the Chinese Karakhoto Manuscripts from the Tangut Empire (ca. 1038–1227).” Revue d'Études Tibétaines 50 (2019): 56–72. http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/ret/pdf/ret_50_04.pdf
Solonin, Kirill. “Buddhism and Confucianism in the Tangut State.” Entangled Religions 8 (2019).
https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/article/view/8472/8038
2018
BuddhistRoad Team. “Dynamics in Buddhist Transfer in Eastern Central Asia 6th–14th Centuries: A Project Report.” Medieval Worlds 8 (2018): 126–134. http://medievalworlds.net/0xc1aa5576_0x003a16e6.pdf