Peter Bisschop
Professor of Sanskrit and Ancient Cultures of South Asia
- Name
- Prof.dr. P.C. Bisschop
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2980
- p.c.bisschop@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-6355-9800
Peter Bisschop is Professor of Sanskrit and Ancient Cultures of South Asia at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. He is a Sanskritist and cultural historian of ancient India, with particular interest in the development of Hinduism and related traditions. His research is philological in nature; he makes editions of Sanskrit texts based on surviving manuscripts. For his research, he studies not only texts but also material culture (inscriptions, temples, statues, etc.). He is interested in the development of religious texts in relation to their environment. Sanskrit has more than 3,000 years of history in large parts of South and Southeast Asia. His research thus covers a vast area in time and space.
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News
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ERC Advanced Grants for four Leiden researchers -
Skandapurāṇa Project Interview for New Books Network -
The Skandapurāṇa Volume V published
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Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape published -
Skandapurāṇa Volume III now available in Open Access -
NWO funding for history research into Siva Religion in Asia -
NWO funding for history research into Siva Religion in Asia
PhD candidates
Research
The main focus of my research concerns the historical development and spread of early Hindu religious traditions, in particular Śaivism, based, first of all, on the philological study of Sanskrit texts. I am particularly interested in the composition and transmission of the anonymous Purāṇa literature, and the historical, religious and social contexts of Purāṇic mythology. I am a member of the international research team preparing a critical edition of the Skandapurāṇa. I also take a keen interest in other forms of Sanskrit literature such as Kāvya, Śāstra and Tantra.
I have been involved as principal investigator in several major research grants. From 2016-2020 I was head of the NWO Free Competition Project From Universe of Viṣṇu to Universe of Śiva. From 2017-2020 I was one of the principal investigators of the ERC Synergy Project Asia Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State. In 2022 I was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for the project PURANA: Mythical Discourse and Religious Agency in the Puranic Ecumene, which runs from 2022-2027.
Supervision
I am willing to supervise MA students on projects concerning any topics related to Sanskrit and various aspects of culture and society in early South Asia. For PhD projects, I particularly welcome those who work with primary sources and are willing to think beyond them.
CV
- 1993-1998: MA Philosophy and Indology at the University of Groningen.
- 2000-2004: Research Assistant at the University of Groningen. PhD Early Saivism and the Skandapurara: Sects and Centres.
- 2004-2005: Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford.
- 2005-2010: Lecturer in Sanskrit Studies, University of Edinburgh.
- 2010: Professor in Sanskrit and Ancient Cultures of South Asia, Leiden University.
Teaching
- BA and MA courses Sanskrit.
- BA courses on the history and culture of South Asia.
Selected Publications
- The Skandapurāṇa. Volume V. Adhyāyas 96-112. The Varāha Cycle and the Andhaka Cycle Continued. Critical Edition with an Introduction & Annotated English Synopsis by Peter C. Bisschop and Yuko Yokochi, in cooperation with Sanne Dokter-Mersch and Judit Törzsök. Leiden: Brill, 2021.
- Primary Sources and Asian Pasts. Edited by Peter C. Bisschop and Elizabeth A. Cecil. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021.
- Universal Śaivism. The Appeasement of All Gods and Powers in the Śāntyadhyāya of the Śivadharmaśāstra. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
- The Skandapurāṇa. Volume IV. Adhyāyas 70-95. Start of the Skanda and Andhaka Cycles. Critical Edition with an Introduction & Annotated English Synopsis by Peter C. Bisschop and Yuko Yokochi, in cooperation with Diwakar Acharya and Judit Törzsök. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
- The Skandapurāṇa. Volume IIB. Adhyāyas 31-52. The Vāhana and Naraka Cycles. Critical Edition with an Introduction and Annotated English Synopsis by Hans T. Bakker, Peter C. Bisschop and Y. Yokochi, in cooperation with Nina Mirnig and Judit Törzsök. Leiden: Brill, 2014.
- Early Śaivism and the Skandapurāṇa: Sects and Centres. Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 2006.
Ancillary positions
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Editor-in-Chief of Indo-Iranian Journal
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Editor-in-Chief of the Gonda Indological Studies
Professor of Sanskrit and Ancient Cultures of South Asia
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- SAS India en Tibet
- Bisschop P.C. (2024), Jean Philippe Vogel and Johan Huizinga: Three drawings by Huizinga. In: Bes L., de Cock A. & Heilijgers D. (Eds.), Vihagottama - Superbird: The multifaceted life of Jean Philippe Vogel 6-11.
- Bisschop P.C. (2024), Jean Philippe Vogel's Letters to Nityanand Shastri. In: Bes L., de Cock A. & Heilijgers D. (Eds.), Vihagottama - Superbird: The multifaceted life of Jean Philippe Vogel.
- Dundas P. & Bisschop P.C. (2023), The ascetics of Mount Aṭṭhāvaya become Jain monks: approaches to the interpretation of an Āvaśyaka Cūrṇi narrative, Indo-Iranian Journal 66(3): 203-289.
- Bisschop P.C. (2023), Review of: Birkenholtz J.V. (2018), Reciting the goddess: narratives of place and the making of Hinduism in Nepal. New York: Oxford University Press. Indo-Iranian Journal 66(4): 385-390.
- Bisschop P.C. & Bakker H.T. (2023), Kauṇḍinya: Pañcārthabhāṣya Adhyāyaya 1: Critical edition with translation and annotation. [working paper].
- Bisschop P.C. (2022), Review of: Gough E., Making a mantra: tantric ritual and renunciation on the Jain path to liberation. Indo-Iranian Journal 65(2): 181-187.
- Bisschop P.C. (2022), A pilgrim's map from India: Imagination in power at the pilgrimage site Gaya. In: Storms M. (Ed.), Maps That Made History. 1000 Years of World History in 100 Old Maps: Lannoo. 372-375.
- Bisschop P.C. (2022), Een pelgrimskaart uit India: De verbeelding aan de macht in pelgrimsoord Gaya. In: Storms M. (Ed.), Kaarten die geschiedenis schreven. 1000 jaar wereldgeschiedenis in 100 oude kaarten: Lannoo. 372-375.
- Bisschop P.C. (2022), Obituary: Henk Bodewitz (1939-2022), Indo-Iranian Journal 65(4): 303-304.
- Bisschop P.C. & Cecil E.A. (Eds.) (2021), Primary Sources and Asian Pasts: De Gruyter.
- Bisschop P.C. & Cecil E.A. (2021), Primary Sources and Asian Pasts: Beyond the Boundaries of the "Gupta Period". In: Bisschop P.C. & Cecil E.A. (Eds.), Primary Sources and Asian Pasts: De Gruyter. 1-18.
- Bisschop P.C. (2021), After the Mahābhārata: On the Portrayal of Vyāsa in the Skandapurāṇa. In: Bisschop P.C. & Cecil E.A. (Eds.), Primary Sources and Asian Pasts 44-63.
- Cecil E.A. & Bisschop P.C. (2021), Idiom and innovation in the ‘Gupta Period’: revisiting Eran and Sondhni, The Indian Economic and Social History Review 58(1): 29-71.
- Bisschop P.C. & Yokochi Y. (2021), The Skandapurāṇa. Volume V: Adhyāyas 96-112. The Varāha Cycle and the Andhaka Cycle continued. Groningen Oriental Studies, Supplement no. 6: Brill.
- Bisschop P.C. (2021), What is ailing Purāṇic studies?, Indo-Iranian Journal 64(2): 163-174.
- Bisschop P.C. (2021), The Vārāṇasīmāhātmya of the Bhairavaprādurbhāva: A Twelfth-Century Glorification of Vārāṇasī. Pondicherry: IFP/EFEO.
- Bisschop P.C. & Cecil E.A. (2021), Jayati Bhagavāñ Jinendraḥ!: Jainism and royal representation in the Kadamba plates of Palāśikā, Journal of the American Oriental Society 141(3): 613-635.
- Bisschop P.C. (2021), Purāṇas. In: Goetz S. & Taliaferro C. (Eds.), The encyclopedia of philosophy of religion: John Wiley & Sons.
- Bisschop P.C., Kafle N. & Lubin T. (2021), A Śaiva utopia: the Śivadharma's revision of Brahmanical varṇāśramadharma. Naples: UniorPress.
- Bisschop P.C., Dokter-Mersch S., Törzsök J. & Yokochi Y. (Eds.) (2021), The Skandapurāṇa volume V: Adhyāyas 96-112. The Varāha cycle and the Andhaka cycle continued. Groningen Oriental Studies, Supplement no. 6. Leiden: Brill.
- Bisschop P.C. (2020), Review of: Brodbeck Simon (2019), Krishna's Lineage. The Harivamsha of Vyāsa's Mahābhārata. New York: Oxford University Press. Indo-Iranian Journal 63(1): 71-75.
- Bisschop P.C. (2020), Review of: McClish Mark (2019), The History of the Arthaśāstra. Sovereignty and Sacred Law in Ancient India: Cambridge University Press. Indo-Iranian Journal 63(2): 189-194.
- Bisschop P.C. (2020), From Mantramārga back to Atimārga: Atimārga as a self-referential term. In: Goodall D., Hatley S., Isaacson H. & Raman S. (Eds.), Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions: Essays in Honour of Alexis G.J.S. Sanderson. Gonda Indological Studies no. 22. Leiden: Brill. 15-32.
- Bisschop P.C. (2020), Vyoman: the sky is the limit. On the Bhaviṣyapurāṇa's reworking of the Liṅgodbhava myth. In: Boer L. den & Cecil E.A. (Eds.), Framing Intellectual and Lived Spaces in Early South Asia: De Gruyter. 75-104.
- Cecil E.A. & Bisschop P.C. (2019), Columns in Context. Venerable Monuments and Landscapes of Memory in Early India, History of Religions 58(4): 355-403.
- Bisschop P.C. (2019), Review of: Libbie Mills (2019), Temple Design in Six Early Śaiva Scriptures. Critical Edition and Translation of the prāsādalakṣaṇa-portions of the Bṛhatkālottara, Devyāmata, Kiraṇa, Mohacūrottara, Mayasaṃgraha & Piṅgalāmata. Collection Indologie no. 138. Pondicherry. Indo-Iranian Journal 62(2): 185-189.
- Bisschop P.C. (2019), Vyāsa's Palimpsest: Tracking Processes of Transmission and Re-creation in Anonymous Sanskrit Literature. In: Staring N., Twiston Davis H. & Weiss L. (Eds.), Perspectives on Lived Religion. Practices - Transmission - Landscape. Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities no. 21. Leiden: Sidestone Press. 165-172.
- Bisschop P.C. (2019), Inclusivism revisited: the worship of other gods in the Śivadharmaśāstra, the Skandapurāṇa and the Niśvāsamukha. In: Mirnig N., Rastelli M. & Eltschinger V. (Eds.), Tantric communities in context. Wien: VÖAW. 511-537.
- Bakker H.T. & Bisschop P.C. (2019), Moksadharma 187 and 239-241 reconsidered. In: Bakker H.T. (Ed.), Holy Ground. Where Art and Text Meet: Studies in the Cultural History of India. Leiden: Brill. 223-234.
- Bakker H.T. Bisschop P.C. (2019), The quest for the Pāśupata Weapon: the gateway of the Mahādeva temple at Madhyamikā (Nagarī). In: Bakker H.T. (Ed.), Holy Ground. Where Art and Text Meet: Studies in the Cultural History of India. Leiden: Brill. 567-599.
- Bisschop P.C. (2018), Review of: Andrijanić I. & Selmer S. (2016), On the Growth and Composition of the Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas: Relationship to Kāvya. Social and Economic Context (Proceedings of the Fifth Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas, August 2008). Zagreb: Croation Academy of Sciences and Arts,. Indo-Iranian Journal 61(2): 185-189.
- Bisschop P.C. (2018), Vedic elements in the Pāśupatasūtra. In: Beek L. van, Kroonen G., Peyrot M., Pronk T. & Vaan M. de (Eds.), Farnah. Indo-Iranian and Indo-European studies in honor of Sasha Lubotsky. Ann Arbor, NY: Beech Stave. 1-12.
- Bisschop P.C. (2018), Universal Śaivism. The Appeasement of All Gods and Powers in the Śāntyadhyāya of the Śivadharmaśāstra no. 18. Leiden: Brill.
- Bisschop P.C. & Yokochi Y. (2018), The Skandapurāṇa. Volume IV. Adhyāyas 70-95. Start of the Skanda and Andhaka Cycles: BRILL.
- Bisschop P.C. (2018), Buddhist and Śaiva interactions in the Kali age: the Śivadharmaśāstra as a source of the Kāraṇḍavyūhasūtra, Indo-Iranian Journal 61(4): 396-410.
- Bisschop P.C. (2017), Sanskrit Manuscripts from the Kern Collection. In: Reeuwijk A. (Ed.), Voyage of Discovery. Exploring the Collections of the Asian Library at Leiden University. Leiden: Leiden University Press. 136-143.
- Bisschop P.C. (2017), 150 Years of Sanskrit Studies in the Netherlands: The Karṇapurāṇa. In: Boer L. den & Cuneo D. (Eds.), Puṣpikā. Tracing Ancient India through Texts and Traditions. Contributions to Current Research in Indology. Volume 4: Oxbow Books. 1-13.
- Bisschop P.C. (Ed.) (2017), . Indo-Iranian Journal.
- Bisschop P.C. (2016), A 12th-Century Vārāṇasīmāhātmya and Its Account of a Hypethral Yoginī-Temple. In: Goodall D. & Isaacson H. (Eds.), Tantric Studies: Fruits of a Franco-German Collaboration on Early Tantra. Pondicherry: IFP / EFEO. 113-133.
- Bisschop P.C. (2016), Review of: Schreiner Peter (2013), Viṣṇupurāṇa. Althergebrachte Kunde über Viṣṇu. Indo-Iranian Journal 59(2).
- Bisschop P.C. (2016), India and the Making of Hinduism: The contribution of the Purāṇas. In: Paramore K. (Ed.), Religion and Orientalism in Area Studies. London: Bloomsbury. 39-50; 165-166.
- Bakker H.T. & Bisschop P.C. (2016), The Quest for the Pāśupata Weapon. The Gateway of the Mahādeva Temple at Madhyamikā (Nagarī), Indo-Iranian Journal 59(3): 217-258.
- Bisschop P.C. & Kolf D. (2016), Johannes Cornelis Heesterman, Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde te Leiden 2014-2015: 122-127.
- Bisschop P.C. (2016) Narmadāparikramā – Circumambulation of the Narmadā River. On the Tradition of a Unique Hindu Pilgrimage. Review of: . Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 111(4-5).
- Bisschop P.C. (2016), Review of: Adheesh A. Sathaye, Crossing the Lines of Caste. Viśvāmitra and the Construction of Brahmin Power in Hindy Mythology.. Indo-Iranian Journal 59(1): 87-94.
- Bisschop P.C. (Ed.) (2016), . Indo-Iranian Journal.
- Bisschop P.C. (2015) Buddhist Epistemology as Apologetics. Studies on the History, Self-understanding and Dogmatic Foundations of Late Indian Buddhist Philosophy. Review of: Eltschinger Vincent (2014), Buddhist Epistemology as Apologetics. Studies on the History, Self-understanding and Dogmatic Foundations of Late Indian Buddhist Philosophy. Indo-Iranian Journal 58(3): 263-268.
- Bisschop P.C. (Ed.) (2015), . Indo-Iranian Journal.
- Bakker H.T., Bisschop P.C. & Yokochi Y. (2014), The Skandapurāṇa. Volume IIB. Adhyāyas 31-52. The Vāhana and Naraka Cycles. Leiden / Boston: Brill.
- Bisschop P.C. (2014) Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Volume I: Regions, Pilgrimage, Deities. Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Volume II: Sacred Texts, Ritual Traditions, Arts, Concepts. Review of: Jacobsen Knut A., Basu Helena, Malinar Angelika & Narayanan Vasudha, Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Volume I: Regions, Pilgrimage, Deities. | Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Volume II: Sacred Texts, Ritual Traditions, Arts, Concepts.. Indo-Iranian Journal 57(3): 287-292.
- Bisschop P.C. (2014) Mahābhārata. Book Five. Preparations for War. Volume One. Mahābhārata. Book Five. Preparations for War. Volume Two. Mahābhārata. Book Six. Bhīṣma. Volume One. Including the "Bhagavad Gītā" in Context. Review of: Garbutt Kathleen & Cherniak Alex (2008 | 2008 | 2008), Mahābhārata. Book Five. Preparations for War. Volume One. | Mahābhārata. Book Five. Preparations for War. Volume Two. | Mahābhārata. Book Six. Bhīṣma. Volume One. Including the "Bhagavad Gītā" in Context.. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 164(1): 276-277.
- Bisschop P.C. (2014), Invoking the Powers that Be: The Śivadharma's Mahāśānti Mantra, South Asian Studies 30(2): 133-141.
- Bisschop P.C. (2014) Sūkṣmāgama. Volume II, Chapters 14 to 53. Critical Edition. Review of: Sambandhaśivācārya S., Dagens B., Barazer-Billoret M.-L. & Ganesan T. (2012), Sūkṣmāgama. Volume II, Chapters 14 to 53. Critical Edition. Indo-Iranian Journal 57(3): 293-295.
- Bisschop P.C. (2014), Pañcārtha Before Kauṇḍinya, Journal of Indian Philosophy 42(1): 27-37.
- Bisschop P.C. (Ed.) (2014), . Indo-Iranian Journal.
- Bisschop P.C. (2013), The Abode of the Pañcamudrās: a yoginī temple in early medieval Vārāṇasī. In: Keul I. (Ed.), `Yoginī' in South Asia: Interdisciplinary Approaches. London: Routledge. 47-60.
- Bisschop P.C. & Silk J.A. (2013), Editorial, Indo-Iranian Journal 56(1): 1-2.
- Bisschop P.C. (2013), Two Pre-Chandella Inscriptions from Kālañjara, Indo-Iranian Journal 56(3-4): 279-294.
- Bisschop P.C. (Ed.) (2013), . Indo-Iranian Journal.
- Bisschop P.C. (2012), Review of: , Viṣṇu's Children. Prenatal life-cycle rituals in South India.. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 162: 503-505.
- Bisschop P.C. (Ed.) (2012), . Indo-Iranian Journal.
- Bisschop P.C. (2011), Rudra-Shiva. In: Hiltebeitel A. (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies Online: Hinduism.. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Bisschop P.C. (2011), Shaivism. In: Hiltebeitel A. (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies Online: Hinduism.. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Bisschop P.C. (2011), Review of: (2010), Sūkṣmāgama. Volume I, Chapters 1 to 13. Critical Edition.. Pondicherry. Indo-Iranian Journal 54: 271-274.
- Bisschop P.C. (2011), Review of: (2008), Gaṇeśapurāṇa. Part II: Krīḍākhaṇḍa. no. 6. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 106: 423-425.
- Bisschop P.C. (2011), Review of: , "Self-Surrender", "Peace", "Compassion" & "The Mission of the Goose". Poems and Prayers from South India by Appaya Dīkṣita, Nīllakaṇṭha Dīkṣita & Vedānta Dīkṣita.|How Úrvashi was Won, by Kālidāsa.|The Quartet of Causeries, by Śyāmilaka, Vararuci, Śūdraka & Īśvaradatta. no. 1. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 161: 201-205.
- Bisschop P.C. (2010), Śaivism in the Gupta-Vākāṭaka Age, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 20(4): 477-488.
- Bisschop P.C. (2010), Review of: (2007), Rāma's Last Act by Bhavabhūti no. 1. New York: New York University Press. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 160: 243-245.
- Bisschop P.C. (2010), Review of: (2007), Friendly Advise by Naráyana & King Víkrama no. 1. New York: New York University Press. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 160: 241-243.
- Bisschop P.C. (2010), Review of: (2009), Mahābhārata. Book Twelve, Peace. Volume Three, ``The Book of Liberation.'' no. 2. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 160: 510-511.
- Bisschop P.C. (2010), Once Again on the Identity of Caṇḍeśvara in Early Śaivism: A rare Caṇḍeśvara in the British Museum?, Indo-Iranian Journal 53(3): 233-249.
- Adriaensen R. & Bisschop P.C. (2009), Tīrthayātrākhaṇḍa: Vāgmatīmāhātmyapraśaṃsā 1-4. Materials for the Study of Sacred Nepāla, I, Journal of the Nepal Research Centre 13: 147-177.
- Bisschop P.C. (2009), Śiva. In: Jacobsen K.A. (Ed.), Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Volume 1: Regions, Pilgrimage, Deities. Leiden, Boston: BRILL. 741-754.
- Bisschop P.C. (2009), Review of: (2005|2005|2005), Mahābhārata. Book Nine. Śālya. Volume One.|Mahābhārata. Book Three. The Forest. Volume Four.|Mahābhārata. Book Two. The Great Hall. no. 1. New York|New York|New York: New York University Press|New York University Press|New York University Press. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 159: 239-241.
- Bisschop P.C. (2008), The Skull on Śiva's Head: Preliminary Observations on a Theme in the Śaiva Art of Mansar. Bakker H.T. (Ed.), Mansar. The Discovery of Pravareśvara and Pravarapura, Temple and Residence of the Vākāṭaka King Pravarasena II. Proceedings of a Symposium at the British Museum.. . Groningen 1-17.
- Bisschop P.C. (2007), The description of Śivapura in the early Vāyu- and Skandapurāṇa. In: Goodall D. & Padoux A. (Eds.), Mélanges tantriques à la mémoire d'Hélène Brunner. Pondicherry 49-72.
- Bisschop P.C. (2007), Review of: (2005), Bhoga Kārikā of Sadyojyoti. With the Commentary of Aghora Śiva. An Introduction with English Translation. no. 1. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 17: 57-58.
- Bisschop P.C. (2007), Notes on a Vārāṇasīmāhātmya Compendium, Newsletter of the NGMCP 5: 21-23.
- Bisschop P.C. & Griffiths A. (2007), The Practice involving the Ucchuṣmas (Atharvavedapariśiṣṭa 36), Studien zur Indologie und Iranistik 24: 1-46.
- Bisschop P.C. (2006), The Sūtrapāṭha of the Pāśupatasūtra, Indo-Iranian Journal 49: 1-21.
- Bisschop P.C. (2006), Early Śaivism and the Skandapurāṇa: Sects and Centres. Groningen: Egbert Forsten.
- Bisschop P.C. (2005), The nirukti of 'Kārohaṇa' in the Skandapurāṇa. Studies in the Skandapurāṇa VII. Koskikallio P. (Ed.), Epics, Khilas and Purāṇas: Continuities and Ruptures. Proceedings of the Third Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas, September 2002 (Zagreb). . Zagreb 556-574.
- Bisschop P.C. (2005), Review of: (2002), Pāśupata Studies. Vienna: De Nobili Research Library. Indo-Iranian Journal 48: 269-276.
- Bisschop P.C. (2005), Pañcārthabhāṣya on Pāśupatasūtra 1.37-39, Journal of Indian Philosophy 33: 529-551.
- Bisschop P.C. (2004), Śiva's Āyatanas in the Various Recensions of Skandapurāṇa 167. Bakker H.T. (Ed.), Origin and Growth of the Purāṇic Text Corpus. With Special Reference to the Skandapurāṇa. Proceedings of the 12th World Sanskrit Conference. Helsinki July 13-18.. . Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. 65-78.
- Bisschop P.C. & Griffiths A. (2003), The Pāśupata Observance (Atharvedapariśiṣṭa 40), Indo-Iranian Journal 45: 315-348.
- Bisschop P.C. (2002), On a Quotation of the Skandapurāṇa in the Tīrthavivecanakāṇḍa of Lakṣmīdhara's Kṛtyakalpataru, Indo-Iranian Journal 45: 231-243.
- Bakker H.T. & Bisschop P.C. (1999), Mokṣadharma 187 and 239-241 Reconsidered, Asiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques 53(3): 459-472.
- editor in chief Indo-Iranian Journal
- Gonda Indological Studies