Three new publications from the BuddhistRoad World
We are happy to announce three further publications along the BuddhistRoad. The Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism entry by Carmen Meinert and Dylan Esler is available online now. 
The contribution contextualises the spread of Buddhism in Tibet during the formative phase between the 7th and 10th century from the point of view of entangled history and in context with developments in Eastern Central Asia.
BuddhistRoad Paper 3.4 by Yuewei Wang analyses the gradual process of integrating local cults of mountain gods into the narrative of Tibetan imperial kingship on the basis of Tibetan Dunhuang manuscripts. And BuddhistRoad Paper 2.10 by Alla Sizova explores the spread of Tibetan Buddhism in the Tangut Empire through the lenses of the12th century production of the Uṣṇīṣavijayādhāraṇīsūtra from the Kharakhoto Collection.
As of today, the BuddhistRoad Paper series comprises 41 academic articles on topics related to Buddhism and Central Asian studies, including Tibetology, Sinology, Turkology, Indology, as well as Tangut and Khotan studies. The articles are all available open access at https://omp.ub.rub.de/index.php/BuddhistRoad/catalog
You can find the publications here:
Meinert, Carmen and Dylan Esler, “Tibet I: 7th–10th Century.” In Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Volume IV-1 History: South Asia, Western Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Tibetan Sphere of Influence, edited by Jonathan Silk, Richard Bowring, and Vincent Eltschinger, 21,282 words. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2025 (online version: https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/entries/ENBO/COM-4132.xml), print version forthcoming.
Wang, Yuewei, “Mountain Gods, Celestial Gods, and Kingship: Non-Buddhist Traditions in Tibetan Dunhuang Manuscripts,” BuddhistRoad Paper 3.4 (2025), 51 pp. DOI: 10.46586/rub.br.457 https://omp.ub.rub.de/index.php/BuddhistRoad/catalog/book/457
Sizova, Alla, “Tibetan Translation of the Uṣṇīṣavijayādhāraṇīsūtra Produced in the 12th Century in the Tangut Empire,” BuddhistRoad Paper 2.10 (2025), 64 pp. DOI: 10.46586/rub.br.454 https://omp.ub.rub.de/index.php/BuddhistRoad/catalog/book/454