Book Reviews

SR No.: 269683
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: J W De Jong
Publisher: J W De Jong
Total Pages: 22
Language: English
Classification: Article
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publication (p. xl, note). The title of Deydier's publication, which is omitted in the bibliography, is Introduction à la connaissance du Laos, Saigon, 1952.4 It is to be hoped that the Cambodian/Thai and Laotian recensions will be edited in the near future with the same care which P. S. Jaini has bestowed on the edition of the Burmese recension.
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1 The Vajirañana National Library. Bangkok, 1924, p. 20. Large extracts from Coedès's publication were copied by H. Saddhatissa in his article 'The Dawn of Pali Literature in Thailand' in: Malalasekera Commemoration Volume. Colombo, 1976, pp. 315-324. No reference to Coedès's work is to be found in it. 2 Cf. BEFEO XLVIII (1956), pp. 250–251. 3 Cf. Bukkyogaku (Journal of Buddhist Studies), Vol. 11 (1981), pp. 65-66. See also G. Terral, op.cit., p. 251, note 3 in which she draws attention to the existence of manuscripts of the PJ in Cambodian script in Thailand. 4 Cf. Bibliographie bouddhique, XXIV-XXXVIII (Paris, 1958), No. 1054.
Erich Frau wallner, Kleine Schriften. Herausgegeben von Gerhard Oberhammer und Ernst Steinkellner (Glasenapp-Stiftung, Band 22). Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH., 1982. X, 899 pp. DM 128,
In his obituary of Erich Frauwallner (1898-1974), Gerhard Oberhammer has pointed out the importance of the contributions made by Frauwallner to the study of the history of Indian philosophy (WZKS 20, 1976, pp. 5-17). It is therefore greatly to be welcomed that the publication of this volume will make a great part of his work more easily accessible. The Kleine Schriften consist of 38 articles and 4 reviews which were published for the first time in the years 1925-1962. With very few exceptions, all articles written during these years are contained in this volume. They are published in chronological order in three groups: Allgemeines (2 articles); Zur Philosophiegeschichte des Hinduismus (13 articles); Zur Philosophiegeschichte und Geschichte des Buddhismus (23 articles). The second group contains such important publications as Frauwallner's studies on epic philosophy in the Moksadharma, and on the older Upanişads, an article on bhāvana in Mandanamiśra's philosophy, and a detailed study of the theory of cognition in the classical Sāmkhya system. In the nineteen-thirties Frauwallner wrote a series of articles on Buddhist logic in which he studied difficult texts by Dignāga, Dharmakirti and Dharmottara in Tibetan translation. They are all reprinted in this volume in the third group which also contains several articles relating to the history of Buddhism and more recent publications on Buddhist logic. The four reviews reprinted in this volume deal with the following publications: E. H. Johnston, Early Samkhya (London, 1937); D. H. H. Ingalls, Materials for the Study of Navyanyā ya Logic (Cambridge, Mass., 1951); A complete Catalogue of the Tibetan Buddhist Canons (Sendai, 1934); and Pramanavārtikabhäshyam or Vārtikālankāraḥ of Prajnakaragupta, ed. by Rāhula Sanksityayana (Patna, 1953).
Frauwallner planned to write a history of Indian philosophy in several volumes but was able to publish only two volumes: Geschichte der Indischen Philosophie (Salzburg, 1953-1956), in which he describes the philosophy of the older period (Veda, epic, Buddha, Jina), Samkhya, classical Yoga, Vaiseșika, Jain philosophy and materialism. Several of his articles are preliminary studies for this work and deal in greater detail with problems which are studied only briefly in these two volumes. Other articles examine topics which Frauwallner planned to treat in later
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