The paper concerns the very beginning of the chapter on perception in Dharmakīrti’s Pramāṇavārttika. It focuses on an apparent contradiction in Dignāga’s and Dhamrakīrti’s epistemology, namely, that universals do not ...

The problem of identifying minimal syntactically relevant intrasentential units in isolating languages has not been treated sufficiently thus far within morphological typology. Such units will be called here ‘syntactic ...

This paper broadly explores the innate or doctrinal permutations of the Buddha’s stūpa and image, and attempts to establish their mutual relationship. In the first instance the Buddha’s stūpa was considered as the ...

Paper describes development of Mongolian and Manchu Studies in Poland starting with the activities of Jan Potocki, Ignacy Wojciechowski and Józef Kowalewski. It depicts works of Marian Lewicki and Stanisław Kałużyński ...

Relations between Chinggis Khan and his younger brother Khasar were somewhat strained at times. In accordance with Mongolian tradition Chinggis Khan’s brothers and their descendants were allotted lands in the eastern ...

This paper is a stock-taking of the present state of research in Hittitology and ancient Anatolian studies in general, including the ongoing publication and digitalization projects concerning Hittite texts and iconographic ...

The conclusion of the project of the University of Munich, aiming at a new publication of all narrative reliefs from the Amaravati School of sculptures (Andhra Pradesh 1st c. BCE – the 4th c. CE) is that there are many ...

The paper deals with the difficulties which translators of the Bible had to face when rendering Christian terms in Mongolian. Which problems did they have to solve in order to convey ideas to people whose cultural-religious ...

The paper concentrates on the transformation of the religious field in 17th and 18th century Mongolia, focusing on the discourse formations which accompanied the missionary strategies the Tibetan Buddhist monks employed ...

This article focuses on three passages of Vasubandhu’s “[Treatise] on the Five Constituents of the Person” (Pañcaskandhaka) and its commentary by the 6th-century Indian scholar Sthiramati, the Pañcaskandhakavibhāsā. ...