In memoriam Prof. Hajime Nakamura 1-5 On Hu and Fan Again: the Transmission of "Barbarian" Manuscripts to China 7-28 What Happened to the Nun Maitreyī? 29-41 Mentally Constructing What Already Exists: The Pure Land Thought of Chan Master Jixing Chewu (1741-1810) 43-70 The Realm of Akṣobhya: A Missing Piece in the History of Pure Land Buddhism 71-102 The Story of Rūpāvatī: A Female Past Birth of the Buddha 103-145 A Hermeneutical Problem in SN 42,12 (SN IV,333) and AN X,91 (AN V,178) 147-154 Report on the XIIth Conference of the IABS 155-159
