Ronald E. Emmerick
Articles by Ronald E. Emmerick
- BUDDHISM i. In Pre-Islamic Times
BUDDHISM i. In Pre-Islamic Times Origin and early spread of Buddhism. Buddhism arose in northeast India in the sixth century…
- CROSBY, OSCAR TERRY
CROSBY, OSCAR TERRY (born Ponchatoula, Louisiana, 21 April 1861, d. Warrenton, Virginia, 2 January 1947), collector of an important group…
- CARAKA
CARAKA, the name of an Indian physician associated with one of the major works on Indian medicine (the Carakasaṃhitā), as…
- CAITYAPRADAKṢIṆĀGĀTHĀ
CAITYAPRADAKṢIṆĀGĀTHĀ, lit. “the song (Skt. gāthā) about circumambulating (Skt. pradakṣiṇā) a holy place (Skt. caitya),” the title of a Buddhist…
- BOOK OF ZAMBASTA
BOOK OF ZAMBASTA, a Khotanese poem on Buddhism. It is the longest indigenous literary composition in the Khotanese language and…
- BHAVĀṄGA
BHAVĀṄGA, the name assigned by H. W. Bailey to ten fragmentary Khotanese folios, a transcription of which he published in…
- BHAIṢAJYAGURUVAIḌŪRYAPRABHARĀJASŪTRA
BHAIṢAJYAGURUVAIḌŪRYAPRABHARĀJASŪTRA, the name of a Buddhist Mahayanist text of which a number of fragments in Old Khotanese and Sogdian are…
- BHADRAKALPIKASŪTRA
BHADRAKALPIKASŪTRA, the name of a Buddhist Mahayanist text. Due to an error introduced by S. Konow it has usually been…
- BHADRA
BHADRA, the name of a magician, who according to Buddhist legend tried to deceive the Buddha by means of his…
- BHADRACARYĀDEŚANĀ
BHADRACARYĀDEŚANĀ, the name of a Buddhist text belonging to the Mahāyāna Tantric tradition of which a Khotanese translation is extant….
- GUTSCHMID, HERMANN ALFRED FREIHERR VON
GUTSCHMID, HERMANN ALFRED FREIHERR VON (b. Loschwitz near Dresden, 1 July 1831; d. Tübingen, 1 March 1887), classical scholar and…