Buddhist Studies 1984 1990

SR No.: 269622
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: J W De Jong
Publisher: J W De Jong
Total Pages: 60
Language: English
Classification: Article
File Size: 5 MB

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the kindness of colleagues who have generously sent me their publications. The library of the Australian National University has been a good source of information but financial restrictions did not make it possible for it to acquire all the publications which I would have liked to see. Especially regrettable is the cancellation of subscriptions to several journals. It is possible that important publications have escaped my notice. However, even if one could have access to all books and periodicals that have been published in the last seven years, it would still not be possible to enumerate all books published in this period, not to mention articles. Moreover, it is undoubtedly impossible for one single individual to inspect and read so many publications, even if the selection, as in the previous article, is limited mainly to philological publications relating to Indian Buddhism. Perhaps it will be possible to fill in the gaps which remain in a future publication. Therefore I would be much obliged if readers would take the trouble to point out to me important publications which ought to have been mentioned.
Buddhist studies suffered a gread loss by the untimely death on January 9, 1984 of John Brough (1917-1984). John Brough had a critical mind and a great knowledge of Sanskrit, Pāli, Prakrit, Tibetan and Chinese. His work on the Gāndhāri Dharmapada (London, 1962) is one of the most important works in the field of Buddhist studies published since the second World War. Brough wrote many articles which deserve publication in a volume of collected papers. In the same year Giuseppe Tucci (1894-1984) passed away. His numerous publications on Indian and Tibetan Buddhism are well-known to all scholars of Buddhism. In 1985 Ernst Waldschmidt (1897-1985) died. We owe him a great many editions of Buddhist Sanskrit fragments from Central Asia and several volumes of the catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts from Central Asia. Two prominent Japanese scholars passed away: Hakuyū Hadano (1911-1985) who published widely on Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, and Shinten Sakai (1908-1988) who was a specialist in Tibetan translations of Indian Tantric texts. Other scholars who passed
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