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Short bibliography on the Buddha Bhaiṣajyaguru


compiled thanks to contributors on the H-Buddhism, to colleagues who responded privately to my query, and also from my personal research in Internet resources (INBDUS, and WorldCat were most useful)

Bhaiṣajyaguru in India:
Nalinaksha Dutt, Bhaiṣajyaguru-vaidūryaprabharāja-sūtra. Calcutta : Calcutta Oriental Press, 1936.

Gregory Schopen's 1978 PhD dissertation “Bhaisajyaguru-Sutra and the Buddhism of Gilgit” available from Austrailian National University's thesis archives (Email as of 2008: library.thesis@anu.edu.au).

Gregory Schopen, "On the absence of Urtext and Otiose Aacaaryas: Buildings, Books, and Lay Buddhist Ritual at Gilgit", in Écrire et transmettre en Inde classique, Gérard Colas and Gerdi Gerschheimer (ed.), Paris: École française d’Exrême-Orient, 2009, pp. 189-219.

A. K. Narain, Studies in history of Buddhism: Papers presented at the International Conference on the History of Buddhism at the University of Wisconsin, Madison ... August 19-21, 1976: L. Zwilling [?] “On Bhaisajyaguru and His Cult”

Lokesh Chandra, Dictionary of Buddhist Iconography, New Delhi : International Academy of Indian Culture, 1999-2005

F M Hassnain and Tokan Sumi, Bhaisajya-guru-sutra : original Sanskrit text with introduction and commentary [Sanskrit text], New Delhi, India : Reliance Pub. House, 1995 [Liturgical method of Mahayana Buddhist for the propitiation of the Bhaiṣajyaguru]

Xingyun, da shi, Sutra of the Medicine Buddha : with an introduction, comments and prayers, Los Angeles, CA : Buddha's Light Pub., 2005.

Deborah Klimburg-Salter, “Bhaisajyaguru in Indian Art?”, in South Asian Archæology 1991: proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference of the Association of South Asian Archæologists in Western Europe, held in Berlin, 1-5 July 1991, edited by Adalbert J. Gail and Gerd J.R. Mevissen ; with the assistance of Britta Zehmke

two images of Bhaishajyaguru from India, one Pala and the other from Sirpur (ca. 8th cent. )

In Japanese:
望月信享, 薬師本願功徳経論, 密教研究・通号1, 1918-11-01, 129-139

真田有美, 梵本薬師経に就いて, 龍谷大学論集・通号339, 1950-06-30, 22-45

新井慧一, 薬師経-一仏経と七仏経, 印度学仏教学研究・通号31, 1967-12-25, 124-125

新井慧一, 薬師経, 印度学仏教学研究・通号34, 1969-03-31, 213-218

新井慧誉, 経録からみたシナ訳『薬師経』成立に関する一考察, 東方学・通号39, 1970-03

新井慧誉, 薬師十二神将名の検討, 中村元博士還暦記念論集:インド思想と仏教

松村恒, 薬師経の諸伝本, 仏教学・通号13, 1982-04-25, 73-103

松村恒, 薬師経の諸伝本(二), 四天王寺国際仏教大学文学部紀要・通号15, 1983-03-10, 95-112(L)

長尾佳代子, ギルギット本『薬師経』の成立, パーリ学仏教文化学・通号7, 1994-06, 101-110

長尾佳代子, 古訳『薬師経』に見られるヤマ・ラージャの記述:サンスクリットテキストを視野に入れた研究, 『パーリ学仏教文化学』21, 2007

長尾佳代子, 『拔除過罪生死得度経』についてーバーイシャジャグル・スートラを視野に入れた考察, 『比較文献学研究』1、2009

杉山二郎, 東方瑠璃光薬師浄土についての一考察, 国際仏教学大学院大学研究紀要・通号1, 1998-03-31, 107-150

岩本裕訳, 薬師如来本願経, In 大乗経典・6, 東京:読売新聞社, 1974

伍小劼, 《灌顶拔除过罪生死得度经》与“文化汇流”, 『南亚研究』2010.2

[Khotan]:
p. 386 in Mauro Maggi, "Khotanese Literature", in The Literature of Pre-Islamic Iran (A History of Persian Literature Companion Volume 1), Ronald E. Emmerick et al. (ed.), London: Tauris, 2009, pp. 330-417.

Bhaiṣajyaguru in Tibet:
Leonard van der Kuijp mentions the sutra in his "The Kalachakra and the Patronage of Tibetan Buddhism by the Mongol Imperial Family" (The Central Eruasian Studies Lectures, #4; Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University, 2004)

John Newman (trans.), _The Wish-Granting Sovereign: A Ceremony for Worshipping the Seven Sugatas_. Portland, Oregon: Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition, 2010.

Schuyler V R Cammann, A Tibetan painting in the Freer Gallery : The paradise of Bhaisajyaguru. New York : Georges Wildenstein, 1944.

Sipra Chakravarti, Medicine gods of Tibetan Buddhism. Kolkata : Pritonia Publishers & Distributors, 2002.

Thrangu, Rinpoche; Peter O'Hearn; Tashi Namgyal, Lama. Medicine Buddha teachings. Ithaca, N.Y. : Snow Lion Publications, 2004.

Thrangu, Rinpoche; Peter O'Hearn; Tashi Namgyal, Lama. Les enseignements du Bouddha de médecine, Paris : Éd. Véga, DL 2008.

Karma-raṅ-byuṅ-kun-khyab-phrin-las, Khenpo Kalu, Le Bouddha de la médecine et son mandala : la santé originelle du corps ed de l’esprit, a Boulaye, France : Editions Marpa, 1997.

In Japanese:
北村太道, チベット所伝、薬師如来マンダラ儀軌について, マンダラの諸相と文化:頼富本宏博士還暦記念論文集.上(金剛界の巻)・通号, 2005-11, 101-132(L)

Bhaiṣajyaguru in China:
Raoul Birnbaum, The Healing Buddha, revised ed. Shambhala, 2003

Raoul Birnbaum, The Lapis Lazuli Radiance Buddha, master of healing : a study in iconography and meaning [PhD thesis], Columbia University, 1976.

Chih-hung Yen, Bhaisajyaguru at Dunhuang. London: 2000. [Thesis(Ph.D)--University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies), 1998.]

Ning Qiang, Art, Religion, and Politics in Medieval China: The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family (Univ. of Hawaii press, 2004).

Françoise Wang Toutain, Le Bodhisattva Kṣitigarbha en Chine du Ve au XIIe Siècle (Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient, 1998) , 303–305.

Zhiru Ng, The Making of a Savior Bodhisattva: Dizang in Medieval China, Kuroda Insitute Studies in East Asian Buddhism series 21 (Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 2007), 142–150.

Anning Jing, “The Yuan Buddhist Mural of the Paradise of Bhaiṣajyaguru”, Metropolitan Museum Journal, 1991, vol. 26, p. 147-166.

Kuo Liying, Confession et contrition dans le bouddhisme chinois du Ve au Xe siècle, Publications de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient, Paris, 1994, “Rite de confession présidé par Bhaiṣajyaguru” (p. 149-167).

窪田憲龍, 敦煌における薬師信仰, 龍谷大学大学院仏教学研究室年報・通号8, 1995-03-20, 1-11

松本栄一, 薬師浄土変相の研究, 極楽の世界・通号, 1997-07-17, 235-257

長尾 佳代子, 著, 漢訳仏典における「倶生神」の解釈, パーリ学仏教文化学 通号 13, 1999-12 , 55-66(L)

Bhaiṣajyaguru in Cambodia:
Helen B. Chapin, revised by Alexander C. Soper. “A Long Roll of Buddhist Images.” Artibus Asiae 32 (1970): 5-41, 157-99, 259-306.

Rethy Kieth Chhem. “Bhaiṣajyaguru and Tantric Medicine in Jayavarman VII Hospitals.” Siksācakr 7 (2005): 8-18.

Joyce Clark (ed). Bayon: New Perspectives. Bangkok: River Books, 2007.

John Eskenazi. Images of Faith: 25th May – 23rd June 1995. London: John Eskenazi Ltd., 1995

Fine Arts Department of Thailand, Report of the Survey and Excavations of Ancient Monuments in North-eastern Thailand, Part Two: 1960-1961. Bangkok: Fine Arts Department, 1967.

Fine Arts Department of Thailand, Plan and Report of the Survey and Excavations of Ancient Monuments in North-eastern Thailand 1959. Rpt., Bangkok: Fine Arts Department, 1979.

Louis Finot. “Notes d’ épigraphie, II, l’inscription sanskrite de Say-Fong.” Bulletin de l’Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient 3 (1903): 18-37.

Victor Goloubew. “Sur quelques images khmères de Vajradhara.” Journal of the Indian Society of Oriental Art 5 (1937): 97-104.

T. S. Maxwell. “Religion at the Time of Jayavarman VII.” “The Short Inscriptions of the Bayon and Contemporary Temples.” In Clarke 2007, pp. 72-135.

Peter D. Sharrock, “Garuḍa, Vajrapāṇi, and Religious Change in Jayavarman VII’s Angkor.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 40 (2009): 111-51.

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Rethy Kieth Chhem, Médecine et santé à Angkor : pouvoir royal, compassion et offre médicale sous le règne de Jayavarman VII (1181-1220). Thesis/dissertation : Manuscript Archival Material : French, 2008

Bhaiṣajyaguru in Korea:
Alice Getty, The Gods of Northern Buddhism, Oxford : the Clarendon Press, 1914, p. 26 (“In Korea, the twelve generals [of the Buddha Bhaiṣajyaguru] are represented on stone coffins of the fifteenth century”).

Bhaiṣajyaguru in Japan:
J Okuda; Y Noro; S Ito, “Les pots de médicament de Yakushi Bouddha (bouddha de la guérison) au Japon.” Revue d'histoire de la pharmacie, 2005; 53(345): 7-32.

In Japanese:
越智翼, 日本古代の薬師信仰(抄), 密教学・通号42, 2006-03-15, 77-98(R)

小林信彦, 薬師信仰, 岩波講座日本文学と仏教・通号7, 1995-01-27, 103-120

小林信彦, 日本で開発されたヤクシ・ケクヮ(藥師悔過):過ちを悔いずにワザハヒ(災)を終息させる呪術(1), 『桃山学院大学人間科学』32、2006

小林信彦, 日本で開発されたヤクシ・ケクヮ(藥師悔過):過ちを悔いずにワザハヒ(災)を終息させる呪術(2), 『桃山学院大学人間科学』33、2007

小林信彦, 日本で開発されたヤクシ・ケクヮ(藥師悔過):過ちを悔いずにワザハヒ(災)を終息させる呪術(3), 『桃山学院大学人間科学』34、2007

長尾佳代子, 薬師如来像と八支斎, 『仏教文化』8、1998

長尾佳代子, 倶生神のフダ, 『舞鶴工業高等専門学校紀要』38、2003

長尾佳代子, 漢訳仏典における「倶生神」の解釈, パーリ学仏教文化学・通号13, 1999-12 , 55-66(L)

伊東史朗, 薬師如来像, 日本の美術 ; 第242号, 至文堂, 1986

五来重編, 薬師信仰, 民衆宗教史叢書12, 雄山閣出版, 1986

西尾正仁, 薬師信仰——護国の仏から温泉の仏へ, 岩田書院, 2000


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