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This volume is dedicated to Prof. Dr. Monika Zin, an outstanding art historian of international standing in the field of early Buddhist art of South and Central Asia. In her numerous publications, she examines art objects and their iconography in connection with literary sources, cultural, religious, and historical backgrounds, as well as the transregional networks of the early Buddhist world concealed behind them. She thus opens up many new exciting perspectives and scholarly questions. With this volume, the editors and numerous authors from many countries around the world, whose works have been inspired in many ways by the scholarly work of Monika Zin, honour the jubilarian with a rich collection of contributions on the art, literature, and religion of South and Central Asia.

Table of Contents

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i

Tabula Gratulatoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

Monika Zin: Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vii

Christoph Anderl
An Initial Survey of the Iconography of Yúlín Cave 33: With an Emphasis on the Tableau
Depicting Māras’s Attack and Temptation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Otabek Y. Aripdjanov
Discovery and Preservation of Wall Paintings from the Buddhist Monuments of Old Termez,
Southern Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Stefan Baums
Two Inscribed Seals from Gandhara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Osmund Bopearachchi
“The Well-Farer of the world is not easily led away”: Revisiting the Paintings of the Mahā-
rājaleṇa of the Dambulla Raja Mahāvihāra (Sri Lanka) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

Chang Wen-ling
Regionale Besonderheiten in den jātaka-Darstellungen Zentralasiens . . . . . . . . . . . . .51

Max Deeg
An Unromantic Approach: Dhyānagupta’s (aka Jñānagupta) Fo-benxing-ji-jing . . . . . . . .61

Caren Dreyer
Überlieferung über die Reste der Sternbildhöhle – Sängim 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73

Jorinde Ebert
Some Visual Symbols and Metaphors for the Buddha’s parinirvāṇa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87

Marion Frenger
Reaching the Skies, Governing Time: Sun and Moon as Attributes of Indian Deities . . . . . . 105

Adalbert J. Gail
Der Buddha auf dem Schlangenthron in der Kunst der Khmer: Eine neuerliche Betrachtung
des wichtigsten Buddha-Bildes der Angkor-Periode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Mariachiara Gasparini
Collars and Wing Sleeves as Marks of Buddhist Royal Patronage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Hiromi Habata
Das Buddha-Reliquiar auf dem Kopf: Eine buddhistische Idee zwischen Kunst und Philoso-
phie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Muhammad Hameed & Muhammad Hassan Khokhar
Contextualising the Spread of Buddhism beyond Gandhara in the Light of the Newly Dis-
covered Fragment of a ’Portable Shrine’ Type Buddhist Diptych from Southern Punjab . . . . 145

Jens-Uwe Hartmann
Trauer um die Großmutter und Trost vom Buddha: Das Āryikā-sūtra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Haiyan Hu-von Hinüber & Luo Wenhua
Two Newly Found Bronze Statues with Sanskrit Inscription Originating from Historical
Northwest India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Christiane Kalantari
Feminine, Wise, Divine: Māyādevī, the Buddha’s Wondrous Mother, in Early Western Tibetan
Temples’ Narrative Cycles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Petra Kieffer-Pülz
The Owner of a Residential Building or Monastery ( sāmi[ ka], āvāsasāmika, vihārasāmi[ ka])
in the Theravāda Tradition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Gerald Kozicz
Nidhi s, Śabaras and the Northern Passage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Patrick Krüger
Bhadrāsana und der vierfache Jina: Anmerkungen zur Symbolik jinistischer ayāgapaṭa s . . . 209

Zhen Liu
Das Maitreyavyākaraṇāvadāna (Nr. 16) in der Bodhisattvāvadānakalpalatā . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Ciro Lo Muzio
Some Remarks on Rawak (Khotan Oasis, Xinjiang): The Stūpa, Clay Sculptures and Wall
Paintings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Melanie Malzahn
New Light on Vedic rodasī ‘Heaven and Earth’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Dieter Maue
On gaṇḍı and granthi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Gerd J. R. Mevissen
How Budha, the Planet Mercury, Became an Enlightened Buddha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Akira Miyaji
Aspects of Mahāyāna Buddhist Art in Gandhara: Focusing on the Iconography of Steles of
the Triad Type and Emanation Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Jessie Pons
Would You like Some Wine? Remarks on a Revelling Scene from Zar-dheri . . . . . . . . . . 281

Andy Rotman
When Is a Fool Not a Fool? Learning from Panthaka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Lilla Russell-Smith
Traces of Indian Astrology in the Nakṣatra Cave in Sengim and in the Turfan Region: First
Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Richard Salomon
Tracing Donations to Buddhist Monasteries in Texts and Inscriptions: Kizil, Balochistan,
Termez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Arcangela Santoro
Haṃsa: Flying Geese at Kizil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Gregory Schopen
Attitudes Toward the Wealth and Comfort of Monks and Monasteries in a Buddhist Monastic
Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Natchapol Sirisawad
Iconography of the Buddha Images of the Śrāvastī Miracles in the Art of Dvaravati . . . . . . 365

Peter Skilling (Bhadra Rujirathat)
Tapussa and Bhallika in Thai Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Katsumi Tanabe
Smiling Buddhas from Gandhara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Tadashi Tanabe
Symbolism of the Grape in Early Indian Buddhist Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Tianshu Zhu
Revisiting the Dīpaṃkara Story in Gandharan Buddhist Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

Peter Zieme
Avalokiteśvara mit altuigurischen Inschriften aus der Bäzäklik-Grotte 46 . . . . . . . . . . . 431