Vincent Tournier

Ouvrages

2020. (with Vincent Eltschinger and Marta Sernesi), Archaeologies of the Written: Indian, Tibetan, and Buddhist Studies in Honour of Cristina Scherrer-Schaub, Naples: Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” (Series Minor, LXXXIX).

2017
. La formation du Mahāvastu et la mise en place des conceptions relatives à la carrière du bodhisattva. Paris: Publications de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient (Collection Monographies, no. 195). [Recipient of the 2018 Prize Colette Caillat in Indology, Institut de France.]

Articles / chapitres

2020. “Stairway to Heaven and the Path to Buddhahood: Donors and Their Aspirations in Fifth- and Sixth-Century Ajanta,” in Mārga, Paths to liberation in South Asian Buddhist traditions, Vol. I. Papers from an international symposium held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, December 17–18, 2015, ed. by Cristina Pecchia and Vincent Eltschinger, pp. 177–248, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

2020. “Buddhist Lineages along the Southern Routes: On Two nikāyas Active at Kanaganahalli under the Sātavāhanas,” in Archaeologies of the Written: Indian, Tibetan, and Buddhist Studies in Honour of Cristina Scherrer-Schaub, ed. by Vincent Tournier, Vincent Eltschinger, and Marta Sernesi, pp. 859–912, Naples: Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” (Series Minor, LXXXIX).

2019. (with John Strong), “Śākyamuni: South Asia,” in Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Volume II — Lives, ed. by Jonathan Silk et al., pp. 3–38, Leiden: Brill.

2019. “Past Buddhas: South Asia,” in Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Volume II — Lives, ed. by Jonathan Silk et al., pp. 95–108, Leiden: Brill.

2018
. "A Tide of Merit: Royal Patrons, Tāmraparṇīya monks, and the Buddha's Awakening in 5th-6th century Āndhradeśa." Indo-Iranian Journal 61/1: 20–96.

2016a. (with Stefan Baums, Arlo Griffiths et Ingo Strauch) "Inscriptions of Early Āndhradeśa: a report on fieldwork in February 2016." Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient 102: 355– 398.

2016b. "Protective Verses for Travellers: a Fragment of the Diśāsauvastika-gāthās Related to the Scriptures of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottaravādins." In Buddhist manuscripts, volume IV, ed. by Jens Braarvig, pp. 407– 437. Oslo: Hermes Publishing (Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection).

2014. "Mahākāśyapa, His Lineage, and the Wish for Buddhahood: Reading anew the Bodhgayā Inscriptions of Mahānāman." Indo-Iranian Journal 57/1-2: 1–60.

2012a. "The Mahāvastu and the Vinayapiṭaka of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottaravādins," Annual Report of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology 15: 87–104.

2012b. "Matériaux pour une histoire de la légende et du culte de Mahākāśyapa: une relecture d'un fragment inscrit retrouvé à Silao (Bihār)." In: Autour de Bāmiyān. De la Bactriane hellénisée à l'Inde bouddhique, ed. by Guillaume Ducœur, pp. 375–413. Paris: De Boccard.

Publications électroniques (publications en ligne, CD-DVD, etc.)

2017–. (with Arlo Griffiths) Early Inscriptions of Āndhradeśa. Documentation, edition and translation of all early (pre-7thc.) inscriptions, from the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana: http://epigraphia.efeo.fr/andhra.

Comptes-rendus

2017. Review of Gérard Fussman, Choix d'articles. Réunis par Denis Matringe, Éric Ollivier et Isabelle Szelagowski. (Réimpressions, no. 14) 598 pp. Paris : École française d'Extrême-Orient, 2014, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 80/1: 169-170.

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