Studies in later Buddhist iconography

Analysis of Scholarly Communication Activities in Buddhism and Buddhist Studies

There is little knowledge regarding the exchange of academic information on religious contexts. The objective of this informational study was to perform an overall analysis of all Buddhism-related communications collected in the Web of Science (WoS) from 1993 to 2011. The studied informational parameters include the growth in number of the scholarly communications, as well as the language-, doc...

Towards a digital research environment for Buddhist studies

This article will explain the structure and function of a digital research environment for Buddhist studies entitled Research Base for Indian and Buddhist Studies (RBIB). In the field of Buddhist studies (and especially in the area of Indian Buddhism), scholars face various obstacles in their efforts to share materials—in both paper and digital media. In establishing the RBIB, we have considere...

PACIFIC WORLD Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies

Stability studies: five years later.

It has been five years since the editorial "Avoiding Common Flaws in Stability and Compatibility Studies of Injectable Drugs" appeared in the American Journal of Hospital Pharmacy. In the ensuing period, it is our perception that important and noteworthy improvements in reports of such studies have become the standard rather than the exception. Nevertheless, there is still substantial room for ...

The Iconography of Vermin

aughty, sharp-tongued, self-assured, unbearably self-sufficient, stingy, and violent beyond measure , " is how Georges de La Tour was described by his contemporaries. Municipal records confirm that he refused to pay his share to feed the hungry during times of famine. He assaulted an officer, beat a peasant, and made himself obnoxious to everyone by " sending his dogs after hare into the standi...