Brief History Of Buddhist Studies In Europe And Maerica

SR No.: 269304
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Author: J W De Jong
Publisher: J W De Jong
Total Pages: 86
Language: English
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THE EASTERN BUDDHIST
(1862–1943) in 1900–1901, 1906–1908 and 1913-1916, four German expeditions, the first led by Albert Grünwedel (1856-1935) and Georg Huth (18671906) in 1902–1903, the second by Von Le Coq (1860–1930) in 1904–1905, the third by Von Le Coq and Grünwedel in 1905-1907 and the fourth led by Von Le Coq in 1913-1914, a French expedition led by P. Pelliot (1878–1945) in 1906–1908, three Japanese expeditions in 1902-1904, 1908-1909 and 19101913, and three Russian expeditions, the first by D. Klementz in 1898, the second and third led by Serge Oldenburg in 1909–1910 and 1914–1915. Other expeditions are mentioned by Jack A. Dabbs49 but the above-mentioned are the most important for Buddhist studies. Buddhist månuscripts in Sanskrit, Kuchean, Agnean, Khotanese, Sogdian, Uigur, Tibetan and Chinese arrived in great number in Paris, London, Berlin, St. Petersburg and Japan as a result of these expeditions. A bibliography of Central Asiatic Studies has been published in volume 1 of the Monumenta Serindica (Kyoto, 1958, pp. 53-87). Waldschmidt's Sanskrithandschriften aus den Turfanfunden (I, Wiesbaden, 1965, pp. XXVi–xxxii) lists all Sanskrit fragments published by German scholars from 1904 to 1964 (for the years 1964-1970 see volume III, 1971, pp. 275-276). Bernard Pauly has listed the publications of Sanskrit fragments brought back by Pelliot: Fragments sanskrits de Haute Asie (Mission Pelliot), JA, 1965, pp. 83-121. As far as I know, there are no bibliographies for the publication of Sanskrit fragments from the collections in London, Leningrad and Japan, but most of those, published before 1959, are to be found in Yamada's Bongo butten no shobunken (Kyoto, 1959). For Kuchean and Agnean one must refer to Ernst Schwentner, Tocharische Bibliographie 1890–1958 (Berlin, 1959), for Sogdian to M. J. Dresden, Bibliographia Sogdica concisa (Jaarbericht No. 8 van het vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Gezelschap Ex Oriente Lux, 1942, pp. 729-734), for Khotanese to M. J. Dresden, Introductio ad linguam hvatanicam (ibid., No. 9, 1944, pp. 200-206) and L. G. Gercenberg, Xotano-Sakskij jazyk, Moskva 1965, pp. 16–29; for Uigur to Rudolf Loewenthal, The Turkic Languages and Literatures of Central Asia ('s-Gravenhage, 1957), and the supplementary indications given by me in IIJ, II, 1958, p. 81. The Tibetan manuscripts in Paris and London
49 Jack A. Dabbs, History of the discovery and exploration of Chinese Turkestan. The Hague, 1963; Chap. V. The Archaeological Period: 1888 to Stein's First Expedition; Chap. VI. The Archaeological Period: 1901-1914.
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