Rocznik Orientalistyczny, T. 65, Z. 1 (2012)
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How to Distinguish between Non-existing Entities? Dharmakīrti and Prajñākaragupta on Universals as Objects of Knowledge
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)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 ... -
Temporal Characteristics of Japanese Verbs from the Contrastive Perspective
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)In this study we investigate an alternative way to look into the aspectual properties of Polish and Japanese verbs from the contrastive perspective. The analysis is based on a formationally motivated classification of ... -
Mongolian and Manchu Studies in Poland
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)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 ... -
What do Ancient Indian Cosmogonies Tell us about Language?
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)The aim of the paper is to reconstruct the Vedic concept of language as presented in the Brāhmaṇas and to show that, according to the Vedic thinkers, language not only expresses thoughts but also it is a social phenomenon ... -
Descriptions of “Feeling” (vedanā) , “Ideation” (samjñā), and “the Unconditioned” (asamskrta) in Vasubandhu’s Pañcaskandhaka and Sthiramati’s Pañcaskandhakavibhāsā
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)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. ... -
Morphological Coding of Verb-Object Agreement in African Languages
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)The aim of the paper is to demonstrate the structures of some African languages that mark agreement between the verb and the object. The means of coding agreement are rich and differentiated and include pronominal ... -
Pho-lha-nas, Khang-chen-nas, and the Last Era of Mongol Domination in Tibet
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)The lives of Pho-lha-nas and Khang-chen-nas are well known, most importantly from Luciano Petech’s seminal study of early 18th-century Tibet. Since the publication of that study, the appearance of several previously ... -
Lexical and Grammatical Properties of Personal Pronouns in Vietnamese: Deicticity and Relationships
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)Since all languages have ways of referring to the person speaking and the person being addressed, some have been misled into thinking that the category of person works in the same manner in all languages. Recognition ... -
Segmentotactics of Mandarin Chinese
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)The aim of this paper is to propose an extension of Bańczerowski’s phonotactic theory and introduce a research project on Mandarin Chinese segmental linguistics in the proposed theoretical framework. The proposal ... -
Hittitology Up to Date: Issues and New Approaches
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)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 ... -
When Stones are All that Survived: The Case of Buddhism in Andhra
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)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 ... -
Rivalry of the Descendants of Chinggis Khan and His Brother Khasar as a Factor in Mongolian History
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)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 ... -
Phonetic and Morphological Coding of Minimal Syntactic Units in Isolating Languages
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)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 ... -
Notes on the Pre-existences of the First Khalkha Jetsundampa Zanabazar according to His Biography Written in the Horizontal Square Script
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)The article deals with previous incarnations (pre-existences) of the first Khalkha Jetsundampa Zanabazar (1635–1723) called Öndör Gegeen according to the biography written in the Horizontal Square Script invented by ... -
Tantric Exposition of the Dependent Origination according to the Candamahārosanatantra , Chapter XVI: pratītyasamutpāda-patala
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)The Candamahārosanatantra, or “Tantra of Fierce and Greatly Wrathful One”, belongs to the class of Highest Tantras (anuttarayoga, rnal ’byor chen po bla med). The text which has been preserved in the Sanskrit original ... -
Some Aspects of the New History of Japanese Literature
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)This article discusses the concept of a new textbook of the history of Japanese literature commissioned by the Polish Scientific Publishers PWN in Warsaw, which was further developed during the writing process. The ... -
Bible Terminology in Mongolian Translation
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)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 Invention of “Shamanism” in 18th Century Mongolian Elite Discourse
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)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 ... -
The Buddha’s Stūpa and Image. The Icons of his Immanence and Transcendence
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN, 2012)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 ...