Recent Buddhist Studies In Europe And America

SR No.: 269701
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: J W De Jong
Publisher: J W De Jong
Total Pages: 28
Language: English
Classification: Article
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RECENT BUDDHIST STUDIES
kirtinirdeśasūtra (1962) and Sūraṁgamasamādhisūtra (1965) and moreover a comprehensive history of Indian Buddhism up to the Saka era: Histoire du bouddhisme indien: Des origines à l'ère Saka (1958). His many articles and reviews are listed in the bibliography which Daniel Donnet contributed to a volume of Indian and Buddhist studies published in honour of Étienne Lamotte in 1980.12
During these last ten years several scholars were honoured with the publication of a felicitation volume: Isaline Horner13 in 1974, Ernst Waldschmidt14 and Herbert Guenther15 in 1977, Edward Conze16 in 1979 and Étienne Lamotte17 in 1980. Volumes in memory of Richard Robinson's and Ludwig Alsdorf19 were published in 1978 and 1981. Particularly welcome were the publication of collected articles of Wilhelm Geiger20 in 1973, of Ludwig Alsdorf 21 and Jean Filliozat22 in 1974, of R. Otto Franke23 in 1978, of H. von Glasenapp 24 in 1980, and of Erich Frauwallner25 in 1982. It is to be hoped that notwithstanding difficult economic conditions the 'Kleine Schriften' of eminent scholars will continue to be published, because there is no better way to honour a scholar than by making his work more accessible. In this connection one can have nothing but praise for the von Glasenapp Stiftung which since 1967 has published the Kleine Schriften of many scholars.
Although, on the one hand, Buddhist studies suffered severe losses with
12 Indianisme et Bouddhisme: Mélanges offerts à Mgr Étienne Lamotte. Louvain-laNeuve, 1980, pp. vii-xvi.
13 See note 10.
14 Beiträge zur Indienforschung: Ernst Waldschmidt zum 80. Geburtstag gewidmet. Berlin, 1977.
15 Buddhist Thought and Asian Civilization: Essays in Honor of Herbert V. Guenther on His Sixtieth Birthday. Emeryville, California, 1977.
16 See note 6. 17 See note 12.
18 Minora Kiyota (ed.), Mahāyāna Buddhist Meditation: Theory and Practice. Honolulu, 1978.
19 Studien zum Jainismus und Buddhismus: Gedenkschrift für Ludwig Alsdorf. Wiesbaden, 1981.
20 Kleine Schriften. Wiesbaden, 1973. 21 Kleine Schriften. Wiesbaden, 1974. 22 See note 11. 23 Kleine Schriften. Wiesbaden, 1978. 24 Ausgewählte kleine Schriften. Wiesbaden, 1980. 25 Kleine Schriften. Wiesbaden, 1982.