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Description of  Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Volume One: Literature and Languages (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia / Brill's)

Edited by Jonathan A. Silk, Leiden University, Editor-in-Chief. Consulting Editors: Oskar von Hinber, Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg and Vincent Eltschinger, Austrian Academy of Sciences Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism is the first comprehensive academic reference work devoted to the plurality of Buddhist traditions across Asia, offering readers a balanced and detailed treatment of this complex phenomenon in six thematically arranged volumes: literature and languages (I, publ. 2015), lives (II, publ. 2019), thought (III), history (IV), life and practice (V), index and remaining issues (VI). Each volume contains substantial original essays by many of the world's foremost scholars, essays which not only cover basic information and well-known issues but which also venture into areas as yet untouched by modern scholarship. An essential tool for anyone interested in Buddhism. An online resource will provide easy access to the encyclopedia's ever-growing corpus of information. Read more