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Plamen · Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 5:21 pm Post subject: Three Mountains and Seven Rivers

by Shoun Hino & Toshihiro Wada $79.95 $47.97

The Mountains and Seven Rivers is a collection of 56 essays to felicitate the sixtieth birthday of Doctor Musashi Tachikawa, professor at Aichi Gakuin University in Nagoya. The contributors are his students and friends, who are making research on various fields of Indian studies, which in turn are related to Prof. Tachikawa's fields of research in a way.

Musashi Tachikawa

Three mountains and seven rivers: Prof. Musashi Tachikawa's felicitation volume / ed. by Shoun Hino ; Toshihiro Wada. - Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 2004. - xx, 903 S. : Ill., Kt.
ISBN 81-208-2468-7
Tachikawa, Musashi: Festschrift
Rs. 1800,00

To felicitate Dr. Musashi Tachikawa on his sixtieth birthday this book presents a collection of fifty-six essays which are related to Prof. TachikawaвЂ™s fields of research. In chronological order, these are NagarjunaвЂ™s Madhyamika Philosophy, Indian Realism, Buddhist and Hindu Tantrism, and Buddhist Theology. The study of Buddhist and Hindu Tantrism covers both iconography and rituals. At first glance their mutual relationship is not clear, but Prof. TachikawaвЂ™s methodology makes us understand just how deeply related these are. His study is deeply rooted in Philology, involving Sanskrit and Tibetan original texts. It is also characterized by making use of comparative philosophical working concepts such as Indian realism and Indian nominalism, the sacred and the profane. In view of these fields of study of Prof. Tachikawa, scholars from various fields have shared and contributed their essays in this felicitation volume. The articles have been organized in thirteen sections. These sections throw new light on enduring themes in Indian studies as well as on fresh issues.

Contents
I. ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY
1. Frits Staal: Three Mountains and seven rivers

II. BUDDHISM
2. Johannes Bronkhorst: Early Buddhism
3. Mahinda Deegalle: Theravada pre-understandings in understanding Mahayana
4. Keiichi Miyamoto: Bodhisattvas and true words (satya): a note on the origin of Mahayana
5. Noriyuki Kudo: Remarks on the orthography of the Kasyapaparivarta manuscripts: Visarga-danda in verses
6. Fujio Taniguchi: Margajnata in the Abhisamayalankara
7. Masaru: Akimoto: Buddhist definition of existence: karitra to Arthakriya
8. Chizuko Yoshimizu: Defining and redefining svalaksana: Dharmakirti's concept and its Tibetan modification
9. Toshiya Unebe: The "Grammarian's Objection" in Sthiramati's Trimsika-bhasya and Bhartrhari's argument on the secondary application of words
10. Max Deeg: Bhagavat in Chinese Buddhist translations: an indirect example of oral nirvacana in Buddhist text translations
11. Dennis Hirota: Engaging religious language in the Pure Land path: repositioning Shin Buddhist tradition in the field of Buddhist studies
12. Kenryo Minowa: The mode of existence of Japanese Buddhism: from a view of the ceremonial services

III. MADHYAMIKA
13. Eli Franco: A note on Nagarjuna and the Naiyayikas
14. Kaie Mochizuki: Are the Madhyamikas Sunyatavadins?
15. Tom Tillemans: What are Madhyamikas refuting? Santaraksita, Kamalasila et al. on superimposition (samaropa)
16. Kudo Yotsuya: Prasangika interpretation of the Madhyamaka theory of freedom from twin extreme positions
17. John Shunji Yokota: Nagarjuna, Shinran and Whitehead

IV. ICONOGRAPHY
18. Akira Miyaji: The idea and realization of the colossal Buddhas: Maitreya and Vairocana
19. Ruriko Sakuma: Iconography of Sukhavati Lokesvara
20. Motohiro Yoritomi: The origin and evolution of the Caturvidyaraja (shidai-myo ou)
21. Atsushi Ishiguro: The chronology of cave temples at Elephanta

V. JAINISM
22. Phyllis Granoff: Reflections on reflections: shadow and darkness in Jain philosophical texts
VI. LOGIC
23. Takashi Iwata: Prajnakaragupta's proof of the Buddha's authority
24. Tadashi Tani: Jnanasrimitra's proof of the momentary destruction of existence: a philosophical investigation from the standpoint of intuitionistic logic
25. Michiko Ishitobi: The propositional logic of Uddyotakara
26. Masanobu Nozawa: Svasvamisambandha in the Vaisesika system
27. Katsunori Hirano: Two types of cognitive process in the Vaisesika philosophy
28. V. N. Jha: Treatment of natural property and contextual property in Navya-nyaya
29. Toshihiro Wada: The origin of Navya-nyaya and its place within the history of Indian logic
30. Gregor Paul: Logic and culture

VII. POETICS
31. Mari Hattori: Vamana on semantic qualities: an annotated translation of the Kavyalankarasutravrtti (3.2.1-5.10-14)

VIII. VEDIC THEMES
32. Ganesh Thite: Vedic ritual: Kalidasa and Bhavabhuti
33. Shrikant Bahulkar: The role of the Brahman in the Sthalipaka with special reference to the Atharvaveda ritual
34. Madhavi Kolhatkar: The divine origin of kingship: it is Vedic

IX. SOCIAL PRACTICES
35. Masakazu Tanaka: Defying blessings of the goddess and the community: disputes over sati (widow burning) in contemporary India
36. Will Douglas: Historical studies Pharping, 1: the modern celebration of Buddha Jayanti

X. TIBETAN THEMES
37. Shunzo Onoda: On the characteristics of the Tibetan Buddhist culture
38. Franz-Karl Ehrhard: The story of how bla-ma Karma Chos-bzang came to Yol-mo: a family document from Nepal
39. Christoph CГјppers: Brag-dkar-ba Chos-kyi dbang phug's reminder notes for the duties of a dkon-gnyer
40. David P. Jackson: The life and writings of Robert B. Ekvall (1898-1983): missionary, soldier-interpreter and observer of Tibetan nomadic life

XI. VEDANTA AND MIMAMSA
41. Lalita Deodhar: Bhaskara's refutation of Jivanmukti
42. Bunki Kimura: Ramanuja's theory of three yogas: the way to Moksa
43. Iwao Shima: The Jnanesvari as commentary on the Bhagavadgita (chapter 1-6)
44. Shinkan Murakami: Sadananda's criticism of Buddhism
45. Noriaki Hosoda: The simile of the leech (jalayuka) as samsarin
46. Shuon Hino: Liberation in Kashmir Saiva philosophy
47. Kiyotaka Yoshimizu: Notes on Kumarila's approach to the ritual scripture
XII. SAMKHYA AND YOGA
48. Shujun Motegi: Bhutatman reconsidered
49. Gensei Asano: A study on the relation between Atmadarsana and Yogic practice
50. Ko Endo: The eight-limbed Yoga in Vacaspatimisra's understanding of the Advaitavedanta

XIII. TANTRISM
51. Hiromichi Hikita: Sanctification of the sacrifical ground
52. Munenobu Sakurai: Another version of Prajnaraksita's Balividhi
53. Shinobu Yamaguchi: A Nepalese Buddhist fire ritual: Sahasrahutihoma
54. Masahide Mori: The Vastunaga ritual described in Tsong-kha-pa's sNgag-rim-chen-po
55. Kimiaki Tanaka: Nagabodhi's Sriguhyasamajamandalopayikavimsatividhi: the Tibetan translation and Sanskrit text of chapter 5 and 6
56. Shingo Einoo: The signs of death and their contexts