Kalyana-Mitta: Professor Hajime Nakamura Felicitation Volume

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This volume is presented to Professor Hajime Nakamura in recongnition and Honour of his dedicated service to the studies in Indology, particularly to Asina Studies. It is a felicitation of a person like Professor Nakamura who so richly deserves it. In all thirty-two scholars have contributed their learned papers to this volume on various Fields of Indology. The volume has a very wide range of coverage too. It includes varous Topics ranging from Pali Buddhism to Sanskrit Buddhism through Chinese, Archaeology, Indian Philosophical System, Cultural and Literary studies, Dialectics, Philosophy of Language, Iconography, Comparative Ideas and many other related topics. While some scholars have taken up old problems and have thrown new light on them, others have presented new topics in critical perspective. The contributors to the volume are : Hasashi Matsumura, Bhikkhu Pasadika, Wilhelm Halbfass, Lokesh Chandra, K.R. Norman. Konard Meisig, Yun-Ahua jan, Heinz Bechert, Mesashi Tachikawa, Anukul Chandra Banerjee, Heinrich Dumoulin, D.C. Ahir, S. Sankaranarayana, R.I. Ingalalli, Toshihiro Wada, K.S. Shukla, Anand Amaladass, Sures Chandra Banerji, P. Chenna Reddy, Rajendra nath Sarma, Y. Krishan, K. Maheswaran Nair, O.P. Bhardwaj, Koichi Shinohara, Phyllis Grannoff, Purusottama Bilimoria, Jikido Takasaki, V.N. Jha, Ujjwala Panse, Gouriswar Bhattacharya, R.C. Pandeya, and H.S. prasad. Contents: Editorial Note Professor Hajime Nakamura : A Biographical Note Contribution of Professor Hajime .Nakamura 1. Le lai de l' oiselect in Oriental Literature/Hisashi Matsumura 2. Once Again on the Hypothesis of Two Vasubandhus/Bhikkhu Pasadika 3. The Therapeutic Paradigm and the Search for Identity in Indian Thought/Wilhelm Halbfass 4. Identification of the Nanjuk Mandala/Lokesh Chandra 5. The Literary Works of the Abhayagiriviharins/K.R. Norman 6. Chung Teh King-The Chinese Parallel to the Sonadada- Sutta/Konrad Meisig 7. Patterns of Chinese Assimilation and Transformation of Meditative Ideas from Indian Buddhist/Yun-Hua-Jan 8. Didactic Poetry of Indian Origin in Burma and in Sri Lanka/Heinz Bechert 9. The Tetralemma in Chinese Hua-Yen School : In Comparison with that of the Madhyamaka-Karika/Musashi Tachikawa 10. The Post-canonical Pali Literature-A Critique/Anukul Chandra Banerjee 11. Aspects of Buddhist Meditation - Satipatthana and Zen- /Heinrich Dumoulin 12. India-Japan Cultural Relations/D.C. Ahir 13. The Technique of taking Refuge in God and Sankara Vedanta/S. Sankaranarayana 14. Tadatmya-Sambandha /R.I. Ingalalli 15. Gangesa and Mathuranatha on the Paksa Paksata/Tosdhihiro Wada 16. Buddhist Icons From Newal/K.S. Shukla 17. Contrary Symbols of God in the Indian World-View/Anand Amaladass 18. Science and Buddhism/Sures Chandra Banerji 19. Guilds and Their Social Exclusiveness in Mediaeval Andhradesa, South India/P. Chenna Reddy 20. Is Anvitabhidhana Preferable to Abhihitanvaya?/Rajendra Nath Sarma 21. The Nature of Sancita Karma and Anatmavada/Y. Krishan 22. On Counterpositing Realism and Idealism/K. Maheswaran Nair 23. Buddha's Sermons in Kuruksetra/O.P.Bharadwaj 24. Ji shen-zhou san-bao Gan-tong-lu : Some Exploratory Notes/Koichi Shinohara 25. The Sacrifice of Manicuda : The Context of Narrative Action as a Guide to Interpretation/Phyllis Granoff 26. Of Suffering and Sentience : The Case of Animals/Purusottama Bilimoria 27. Tathagatagarbha and the Community of Bodhisattvas/Jikido Takasaki 28. Towards Defining Sadhutva and Asadhutva/N.N. Jha 29. Prabhakaras on Negation/Ujjwala Panse 30. An Outstanding Image of a Buddhist Deity Seated on a Lion/Gouriswar Bhattacharya 31. The Indian Philosophical Systems : Pramana Centricity/R.C. Pandeya 32. The Context Principle of Meaning in Prabhakara Mimamsa/H.S. Prasad