Brief History Of Buddhist Studies In Europe And Maerica

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

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BUDDHIST STUDIES IN THE WEST
claimed too much for Aśvaghosa, his devotion to him has brought to light much important material.
Sylvain Lévi's discovery in Nepal in 1922 of Vasubandhu's Vimsatikā and Trimśikā was of great importance for the knowledge of the Yogācāra school.64 Some of the most important texts discovered by Sylvain Lévi were published by his pupils. Félix Lacôte (1873–1925) edited and translated Budhasvāmin's Brhatkathāślokasamgraha (Paris, 1908–1929) which added a new dimension to the study of the famous Brhatkathā. Yamaguchi Susumu edited in 1934 Sthiramati's Madhyāntavibhāgatīkā (Nagoya, 1934; reprint, Tokyo, 1966). Sylvain Lévi took also great interest in the discoveries of Sanskrit and Kuchean manuscripts in Central Asia. Pischel's publication of a Sanskrit fragment of the Samyuktāgama (SPAW, 1904, pp. 807–827) inaugurated the publication of Sanskrit manuscripts discovered by the German Turfan expeditions. Sylvain Lévi showed that the corresponding text was to be found in the Chinese version of the Samyuktāgama.65 This discovery was of great importance for the history of the Buddhist canon. In a study of the sacred scriptures of the Buddhists, Sylvain Lévi underlined the importance of the discoveries of Buddhist texts of different schools for the history and comparative study of the Buddhist canon.66 For Sylvain Levi's editions of Sanskrit and Kuchean fragments we must refer to the bibliography of his writings in volume VII-VIII of the Bibli
*NGGW, 1928, pp. 295–304; Um Ašvaghoşa, NGGW, 1931, PP. 330-336; L. de La Vallée Poussin, La Siddhi de Hiuan-tsang, I, Paris, 1928, pp. 221–224; Jean Przyluski, Aśvaghoșa et la Kalpanāmanditikā, BCL, se série, XVI, 1930, pp. 425-434 (see Pelliot's review T'oung Pao, 28, 1931, pp. 196-197); Sautrāntika et Dārstāntika, RO, VIII, 1932, pp. 14-24; Dārstāntika, Sautrāntika and Sarvāstivādin, IHQ , XVI, 1940, pp.246-254; Entai Tomomatsu, Sūtrālamkāra et Kalpanāmanditikā, JA, 1931, II, pp. 135-174, 245-337; E. H. Johnston, Buddhacarita, II (1936), pp. xxii-xxiij; D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Mecaka et le Sūtrālāņkāra, JA, 1952, pp. 71-73.
64 Vijñaptimātratāsiddhi, Paris, 1925; Matériaux pour l'étude du système Vijñaptimātra, Paris, 1932.
65 Le Samyuktāgama sanscrit et les feuillets Grünwedel, Toung Pao S, 1904, pp. 297– 309.
66 Les Saintes Écritures du Bouddhisme. Comment s'est constitué le canon sacré, AMG, B. V., t. XXXI, 1909, pp. 105-129= Mémorial Sylvain Lévi, Paris, 1937, pp. 75-84. For Oldenberg's reaction see Studien zur Geschichte des buddhistischen Kanons, NGGW, 1912, pp. 197–208=Kleine Schriften, II, pp. 1015-1026.
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