Péter-Dániel Szántó
Biographic Data
| ID | 5659042 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Péter-Dániel Szántó |
| GIVEN NAMES | Péter-Dániel |
| FAMILY NAME | Szántó |
| SIGNATURE | SZÁNTÓ P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eötvös Loránd University Budapest Hungary |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7445-533X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Viśeṣastava. Der Sanskrittext nach den Handschriften bearbeitet und übersetzt, by Johannes Schneider
Guardian of a Dying Flame. Śāriputra (c. 1335–1426) and the End of Late Indian Buddhism, by Arthur Philip McKeown
Brassai Sámuel, az első erdélyi szanszkritista
Szántó Péter Dániel írása Brassai Sámuelről az MTA 200 éves fennállásának tiszteletére
Preliminary Notes on the Mahāmudrātilaka
This short essay is an introduction to the study of the Mahāmudrātilaka (‘An Ornament of the Great Seal’), an important Buddhist tantric scripture of the Hevajra cycle. The text is a so-called uttaratantra (ancillary scripture) of the Hevajratantra. This cult emerged around ca. 900 CE in Eastern India and quickly rose to a position of prominence. In order to illustrate this point, first I discuss some historical references to the Hevajra cult: a …
Buddhist Homiletics on Gambling (*Saddharmaparikathā, Ch. 12)
The paper focuses on the 12th chapter of the * Saddharmaparikathā , a Buddhist homileticians’ guidebook containing sample sermons, dealing with the topic of gambling ( dyūta ). I edit, translate, and discuss the chapter with an introduction that includes a short overview of gambling in Sanskrit literature at large. The anonymous author is dismissive of gambling in all its forms, whether it is practised for material gain, for mere pleasure, and ev…
Buddhist Homiletics on Grief
The study first introduces a hitherto completely unstudied anonymous work, for which I reconstruct the title * Saddharmaparikathā . This substantial text is a Buddhist homiletician’s guidebook with sample sermons in Sanskrit on a rich variety of topics. I argue that it dates from the 5th century and that it was possibly authored in a Saṃmatīya environment. I first discuss the unique manuscript transmitting the text, the structure and contents of …
Asbestos and Salamander in India
The present paper, an homage to B. Laufer’s “Asbestos and Salamander” (1915), adds South Asia to the story of a remarkable Eurasian cultural meme meant to explain the presence of fire-proof cloth after its manufacturing technology was forgotten, namely that asbestos was the fur of a mythical animal. I argue that none of our Sanskrit dictionaries contain the correct meaning of the term agniśauca , which does indeed mean asbestos. The widely shared…
Trans-Sectual Identity
The Praśnottararatnamālikā is a small tract containing 62 questions, paired with their answers. It is extraordinary that this text has been transmitted within Hindu, Jaina and Buddhist traditions, in Sanskrit, Prakrit and Tibetan, variously attributed to different authors. The present study examines what is known of the text, which from early on drew the attention of modern scholars, and presents editions of its Sanskrit and Tibetan versions, alo…
Mahāsukhavajra’s Padmāvatī Commentary on the Sixth Chapter of the Caṇḍamahāroṣaṇatantra
The Brahmayāmalatantra or Picumata, written by Csaba Kiss
The Franco-German Early Tantra Project officially ended more than half a decade ago, and its results are being published with some slight delay. Notwithstanding, the reader’s patience is amply rewarded. Having appeared almost simultaneously with the publication of the Niśvāsatattvasaṃhitā, the earliest surviving Śaiva tantra, and three early works of the Pancarātra (Early Tantra Series 1 and 2 respectively), the present volume is the second part …
Mahāsukhavajra’s Padmāvatī Commentary on the Sixth Chapter of the Caṇḍamahāroṣaṇatantra
Buddhist Homiletics on Gambling (*Saddharmaparikathā, Ch. 12)
The paper focuses on the 12th chapter of the * Saddharmaparikathā , a Buddhist homileticians’ guidebook containing sample sermons, dealing with the topic of gambling ( dyūta ). I edit, translate, and discuss the chapter with an introduction that includes a short overview of gambling in Sanskrit literature at large. The anonymous author is dismissive of gambling in all its forms, whether it is practised for material gain, for mere pleasure, and ev…
Buddhist Homiletics on Grief
The study first introduces a hitherto completely unstudied anonymous work, for which I reconstruct the title * Saddharmaparikathā . This substantial text is a Buddhist homiletician’s guidebook with sample sermons in Sanskrit on a rich variety of topics. I argue that it dates from the 5th century and that it was possibly authored in a Saṃmatīya environment. I first discuss the unique manuscript transmitting the text, the structure and contents of …
The Brahmayāmalatantra or Picumata, written by Csaba Kiss
The Franco-German Early Tantra Project officially ended more than half a decade ago, and its results are being published with some slight delay. Notwithstanding, the reader’s patience is amply rewarded. Having appeared almost simultaneously with the publication of the Niśvāsatattvasaṃhitā, the earliest surviving Śaiva tantra, and three early works of the Pancarātra (Early Tantra Series 1 and 2 respectively), the present volume is the second part …
Mahāsukhavajra’s Padmāvatī Commentary on the Sixth Chapter of the Caṇḍamahāroṣaṇatantra
Trans-Sectual Identity
The Praśnottararatnamālikā is a small tract containing 62 questions, paired with their answers. It is extraordinary that this text has been transmitted within Hindu, Jaina and Buddhist traditions, in Sanskrit, Prakrit and Tibetan, variously attributed to different authors. The present study examines what is known of the text, which from early on drew the attention of modern scholars, and presents editions of its Sanskrit and Tibetan versions, alo…
Asbestos and Salamander in India
The present paper, an homage to B. Laufer’s “Asbestos and Salamander” (1915), adds South Asia to the story of a remarkable Eurasian cultural meme meant to explain the presence of fire-proof cloth after its manufacturing technology was forgotten, namely that asbestos was the fur of a mythical animal. I argue that none of our Sanskrit dictionaries contain the correct meaning of the term agniśauca , which does indeed mean asbestos. The widely shared…
Buddhist Homiletics on Grief
The study first introduces a hitherto completely unstudied anonymous work, for which I reconstruct the title * Saddharmaparikathā . This substantial text is a Buddhist homiletician’s guidebook with sample sermons in Sanskrit on a rich variety of topics. I argue that it dates from the 5th century and that it was possibly authored in a Saṃmatīya environment. I first discuss the unique manuscript transmitting the text, the structure and contents of …
Buddhist Homiletics on Gambling (*Saddharmaparikathā, Ch. 12)
The paper focuses on the 12th chapter of the * Saddharmaparikathā , a Buddhist homileticians’ guidebook containing sample sermons, dealing with the topic of gambling ( dyūta ). I edit, translate, and discuss the chapter with an introduction that includes a short overview of gambling in Sanskrit literature at large. The anonymous author is dismissive of gambling in all its forms, whether it is practised for material gain, for mere pleasure, and ev…
Preliminary Notes on the Mahāmudrātilaka
This short essay is an introduction to the study of the Mahāmudrātilaka (‘An Ornament of the Great Seal’), an important Buddhist tantric scripture of the Hevajra cycle. The text is a so-called uttaratantra (ancillary scripture) of the Hevajratantra. This cult emerged around ca. 900 CE in Eastern India and quickly rose to a position of prominence. In order to illustrate this point, first I discuss some historical references to the Hevajra cult: a …
Viśeṣastava. Der Sanskrittext nach den Handschriften bearbeitet und übersetzt, by Johannes Schneider
Guardian of a Dying Flame. Śāriputra (c. 1335–1426) and the End of Late Indian Buddhism, by Arthur Philip McKeown
Brassai Sámuel, az első erdélyi szanszkritista
Szántó Péter Dániel írása Brassai Sámuelről az MTA 200 éves fennállásának tiszteletére
Philosophy (8 works) · Buddhism (7 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Theology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sanskrit (5 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works)