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
byun (Strassburg, 1892–1896). 107 Palmyr Cordier (1871-1914) published a very accurate catalogue of the Tibetan Tanjur (Catalogue du fonds tibétain de la Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1909–1915).108 Berthold Laufer (1874–1935) published many articles, based on Tibetan materials.109 Giuseppe Tucci undertook several expeditions to Tibet and brought back many precious materials on Tibetan Buddhist literature and art.110 The important work of Andrej Vostrikov (1904–1937) on Tibetan historical literature was published twenty-five years after his death: Tibetskaja istoričeskaja literatura, Moskva, 1962 (Bibliotheca Buddhica, vol. XXXII.
Sinologists continued to study the travels of Chinese pilgrims to India. Thomas Watters (1840–1901) prepared extensive notes on Hsüan-tsang's Hsi-yü-chi which were published posthumously: On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, London, 1904–1905 (cf. Pelliot's review BEFEO, V, 1905, pp. 423-457). Noël Peri (1865-1922) wrote some important articles of which we mention only two: one on the date of Vasubandhu and one on the wives of Sākyamuni.111 Two of the greatest Sinologists, Édouard Chavannes (1865-1918) and Paul Pelliot (1878–1945), have made notable contributions to Buddhist studies. Chavannes translated I-tsing's work on the pilgrims to the Western countries (Mémoire composé à l'époque de la grande dynastie T'ang sur les religieux éminents qui allèrent chercher la loi dans les pays d'Occident par I-tsing, Paris, 1894) and many Buddhist stories (Cinq cents contes et apologues, I-III, Paris, 1910–1911; IV, 1935). Together with Sylvain Lévi he wrote articles on some enigmatic titles in the Buddhist ecclesiastic hierarchy and on the sixteen Arhats. 112 Pelliot's contribu
107 Cf. B. Laufer, Nécrologie Dr. Georg Huth, Toung Pao, 7, 1906, pp. 702-706. 108 Cf. Ed. Chavannes, Le Dr. Palmyr Cordier, Toung Pao, 15, 1914, pp. SSI-553.
109. Cf. H. G. Creel, Obituary Berthold Laufer: 1874-1934, Monumenta Serica I, 1935, pp. 487–496; Johannes Schubert, Berthold Laufer, Artibus Asiae, IV, 1935, pp. 265-270; V, 1935, p. 83; VI, 1936, p. 169.
110 Cf. Note 100.
111 A propos de la date de Vasubandhu, BEFEO, XI, 1911, pp. 339-390; Les femmes du Çākyamuni, ibid., XVIII, ii, pp. 1-37. See further Ed. Maitre's obituary, BEFEO, XXII, 1922, pp. 404-417.
112 Quelques titres énigmatiques dans la hiérarchie ecclésiastique du Bouddhisme indien, JA, 1915, I, pp. 193-223; II, pp. 307–310; Les seize Arhats protecteurs de la Loi, JA, 1916, II, pp. 5-50, 189-305. See further Henri Cordier, Édouard Chavannes, JA, 1918, I, pp. 226, 227, 228, 246.
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