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Author(s): J W De Jong
Publisher: J W De Jong

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P. 132: Lienhard states that the Buddhist hymns are the oldest, dating back to the 1st century B.C., but does not explain to which hymns he refers. P. 133: For a bibliography on Nagarjuna's four hymns, see Fernando Tola and Carmen Dragonetti, “Nāgārjuna's Catustava', Journal of Indian Philosophy 13 (1985), pp. 1–54. P. 134: for the Mañjuśrījñanasattvasya Paramarthanāmasangiti, see Ronald M. Davidson, "The Litany of Names of Manjusri', 'Mélanges chinois et bouddhiques 20 (1981), pp. 1-69. P. 135: Lienhard mentions Feer's edition of the Pañcagatidīpana (not -dāpana). The correct title is Pancagatidīpani, cf. Paul Mus' edition in La Lumière sur les Six Voies (Paris, 1939). The Anāgatavamsa which is mentioned on the same page has also been edited by Ernst Leumann in Maitreya-samiti, Teil II, Strassburg, 1919, pp. 177-226. P. 152: on the prahelika, see also Ludwik Sternbach, Indian Riddles. Hoshiarpur, 1975. On p. 165, the word 'no' has been dropped: there are no Tibetan and Chinese translations of the Saundarananda. P. 193, no. 120: read M. B. Emeneau for M. B. Emmeneau. P. 239: Kantaka is not a fellow prisoner of Apahāravarman but his jailer.
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1 Cf. p. 23, n. 66; p. 49, n. 140; p. 73, n. 24;p. 74, n. 33; p. 121, n. 193.
Australian National University
J. W. DE JONG
W. Zwalf (ed.), Buddhism: Art and Faith. London, British Museum Publications Ltd., 1985. 300 pp. £12.50
Buddhism: Art and Faith is the catalogue of an exhibition in the British Museum displaying 422 items from the collections of the British Museum and the British Library and from a few other institutions in Great Britain. There have been many exhibitions of Buddhist art but, as far as I know, not one which showed so many manuscripts from the Theravada and Mahāyana countries in Asia. The largest section is devoted to the scriptures and their transmission. The ninety items in this section give a vivid impression of the richness of the Buddhist literature, and of the great number of materials, scripts and languages used in the course of the
Indo-Iranian Journal 30 (1987).