Taiwan was held in autumn 2001 at the Academia Sinica, Taipei. On Tibetan Buddhism in Taiwan see also Lan (1994).

[35] Panjiao is an important feature of Chinese Buddhism since its introduction from India. It is used to organize the variety of Buddhist schools that came to China into a coherent whole. At the same time the author of the panjiao-hierarchy uses his model to strengthen the claim to orthodoxy of his own school.

[36] For an extensive treatment of Yinshun’s position in Chinese Buddhism see my dissertation on Yinshun (forthcoming 2004).

[37] Dhatuvāda is a neologism coined in the debate on Critical Buddhism in Japan that was started by Hakyama Noriaki and Matsumoto Shiro. For a thorough presentation of the state of the discussion see Hubbard & Swanson (1997).

[38] Cf. Zhu (1996).

[39] The figures in the following section are taken from Lan (2001).

[40] Especially his Encyclopaedia of Chinese Buddhism (Lan (1994)) deserves mentioning.

[41] The first Sanskrit classes in Taiwan started only in the late eighties.

[42] http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw.

[43] The late Prof. Ejima (Tokyo University) contributed greatly to the success of these negotiations.

[44] The Mojikyo team has been working on the digitisation of CJK characters for a long time and its numbering system has become a standard in the field. The project, however, has lost some of its lustre with the arrival of Unicode and certain proprietary changes.

[45] Nobel Prize winners George Akerlof, Michael Spence, and Joseph Stieglitz coined the term “asymmetric information.” Their work has had great influence on development economics, where the link between economical and informational poverty plays a significant role in analysis.