Study Of Indian Philosophy In Germany And Austria

SR No.: 269267
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Wilhelm Halbfass
Publisher: Wilhelm Halbfass
Total Pages: 12
Language: English
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THE STUDY OF INDIAN PHİLOSOPHY IN GERMANY AND AUSTRIA
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the Pañcaskandhaka and the Pañcavastuka 22, he follows the development of Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma literature, discusses its agreements with Pāli Abhidhamma works and the possibility of a common source, emphasizes the role of Dharmasri (Abhidharmasāra) as precursor of Vasubandhu, and finally reconsiders the Pāli Abhidhammapițaka and the Sariputräbhidharma which has been attributed to the Dharmaguptaka school.–At this point, we may express our hope that the third volume of Frauwallner's Geschichte der indischen Philosophie (History of Indian Philosophy) will be published soon and thus add to our understanding of the hitherto rather opaque philosophical developments in the Hinayāna schools.
A new and thorough analysis of one of the most basic and central teachings of Buddhism, the pratiyasamutpāda formula, is given by F. Bernhard, the editor of a monumental critical edition of the Udānavarga 23, in his article Zur Interpretation der Pratilyasamutpāda-Formel (BGI 53-63 ); his conclusion is “that originally the second part of the pratityasamutpada formula was not a continuation but a parallel of the first part ” 24.-Referring to Bernhard's edition, L. Schmithausen presents a long series of penetrating philological observations concerning the different recensions of this text: Zu den Rezensionen des Udänavargah (WZKS 14, 1970, 47-124); Philologische Bemerkungen zum Ratnagotravibhāga (Philological Remarks on the Ratnagotravibhäga ) follow one year later ( WZKS 15, 1971, 123-177). Other documents of the scholarship and linguistic sovereignty of this master philologist among contemporary students of Indian thought are : Der Nirvāņa-Abschnitt in der Viniscayasamgrahaņi der Yogācārabhūmiņ (Wien 1969, VKSKSO 9), making accessible, with the help of Tibetan, Chinese and Mongolian versions, an important section of the Yogācārabhūmi, which introduces a new concept of nirvāṇa and has not been preserved in the Sanskrit original ; Zur Literaturgeschichte der älteren YogācāraSchule (ZDMG, Supplement 1/3, 1968, 809-821 ), which discusses problems of the literary history of the older Yogācāra school ; Sautrántika-Voraussetzungen in Vimsatikā und Trimśikā (WZKSO 11, 1967, 109-136), which points out certain doctrinal divergences between these two short treatises by Vasubandhu, especially the fact that the term alayavijñāna does not occur in the Vimsatikā and that it does not advocate the Yogācārin's “eightfold complex of mental series ", which we have in the Trimsika. However, Schmithausen finds certain
22 Cf. in this connection J. Imanishi, Das Pañcavastukam und die Pañcavastukaribhāsā (Göttingen 1969; Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen. Piilologischhistorische Klasse g. 1959, Nr. 1). Imanishi presents and analyses Sanskrit Abhidharma fragments from the famous Turfan manuscripts.
23 Udänavarga, herausgegeben von F. Bernhard, 2 vols. (Göttingen 1965-1963; Abhandlungen der Akadenie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen. Philologisch-historische Klasse III/54. Sanskrittexte aus den Turfanfunden 10).
24 BGI 63