THE JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BUDDHIST STUDIES EDITOR-IN-CHIEF A. K. Narain University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA EDITORS Heinz Bechert Leon Hurvitz Universitat Gottingen FRG University o f British Columbia Vancouver, Canada Lewis Lancaster A. W. MacDonald University of California, Berkeley, USA Universiti de Paris X, Nanterre, France J . Stavisky Alex Wayman WCNILKR, Moscow, USSR Columbia University, New York, U S A ASSOCIATE EDITOR Stephen Beyer University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA