Brief History Of Buddhist Studies In Europe And Maerica

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

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THE EASTERN BUDDHIST
manuscripts in several centres of Oriental studies would make intensive work possible in the following period. Burnouf laid solid foundations for the study of Sanskrit Buddhist texts. Important work had been done on the Tibetan sources in this period but this field would be relatively neglected in the coming decennia. Abel-Rémusat and Stanislas Julien had made known important texts for the history of Buddhism in India, but in this field, too, progress was less conspicuous in the following years.
CHAPTER II
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The middle period (1877-1942)
Editions of Pali and Sanskrit texts in the last quarter of the 19th century (p. 77) Senart's Essai sur la légende du Buddha (p. 78)-Kern's History of Buddhism in India (p. 79)-Oldenberg's Buddha (p. 81)-The first two Buddhist Councils (p. 83)-The relations between Buddhism and Brahmanism (p. 84) The relations between Buddhism and Samkhya (p. 85)-The relations between Buddhism and Yoga (p. 86)-The inscriptions of Aśoka. Senart's conception of Buddhism at the time of Aśoka (p. 87)-Buddhist monuments and inscriptions (p. 89)-Discoveries of Buddhist manuscripts in Central Asia (p. 91)-Later work by Kern, Senart and Oldenberg. Barth (p. 93)-Sylvain Lévi (p. 93)—Louis de La Vallée Poussin (p. 96)—Jean Przyluski (p. 98) Lamotte (p. 99)-Stcherbatsky (p. 99)—d'Oldenburg and Obermiller (p. 101)-Lüders and Waldschmidt (p. 102)-Schayer, Tuxen, Tucci and Frauwallner (p. 102)—-Johnston's editions of Asvaghosa's works. Weller and Nobel (p. 103)-The Critical Pāli dictionary. Wilhelm Geiger (p. 104)-Tibetan sources on Buddhism (p. 104)-Chinese sources on Buddhism. Watters, Peri, Chavannes, Pelliot and Demiéville (p. 105)
It is of course not possible to make a sharp distinction between the early period of Buddhist studies up to 1877 and the following one, but 1877 can be taken as point of departure for a new era in Buddhist studies for several reasons.