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1.1.Yamabe Nobuyoshi A Hypothetical Reconsideration of the ‘Compilation’ of Cheng Weishi Lun 1.2.Ernest Billings (Billy) Brewster Survivability: Vasubandhu and Saṅghabhadra on the Continuity of the Life of a Sentient Being as Translated by Xuanzang 1.3.Li Zijie The Transformation of the Theory of Zhongxing (Skt. Gotra) before Xuanzang’s Translations: With a Focus on the Pusa Yingluo Benye Jing 1.4.Dan Lusthaus What is ‘New’ in Xuanzang’s New Translation Style? 1.5. Richard D. McBride II How Did Xuanzang Understand Dhāraṇī?: A View from His Translations 2. Historical And Biographical Studies 2.1. Shigeki Moro Biography as Narrative: Reconsideration of Xuanzang’s Biographies Focusing on Japanese Old BuddhistManuscripts 2.2. Jeffrey Kotyk Chinese State and Buddhist Historical Sources on Xuanzang: Historicity and the Da Ci’en Si Sanzang Fashi Zhuan 2.3. Guo Wu Context and Text: Historicizing Xuanzang and the Da Tang Xiyu Ji 3. Transborder And Transcultural Perspectives 3.1. Max Deeg How to Create a Great Monastery: Xuanzang’s Foundation Legend of Nālandā in Its Indian Context 3.2. Arun Kumar Yadav The Mahābodhi Temple: Centre of Indo-Chinese Cultural Exchange 3.3. Yu Xin Archaeological Evidence, Cultural Imagination and Image of theMedieval World: New Perspectives on Treasures from Qiuci 3.4. George A. Keyworth On Xuanzang and Manuscripts of the *Mahāprajñāpāramitā- sūtra at Dunhuang and in Early Japanese Buddhism 4. Appendix 4.1. Siglinde Dietz The Xuanzang Project at the University of Göttingen Author Biographies