Brief History Of Buddhist Studies In Europe And Maerica

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

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A Brief History of Buddhist Studies in Europe and America
J. W. DE JONG Chapter III
The recent period (1943-1973)
Edgerton's Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Grammar and Dictionary. The objections raised by critics and especially by Helmer Smith (p. 50)-Brough's edition of the Gandhari Dharmapada (p. 57)-Editions of Sanskrit texts from Central Asia (p. 58)-Bareau's work on early Buddhism (p. 62)-Pāli studies (p. 63) -Lin Li-kouang's work on the Saddharmasmṛtyupasthanasūtra and the Dharmasamuccaya. Abhidharma (p. 64)-Mahāyāna studies. Conze, Lamotte, Nobel and Weller (p. 64)-Matṛceta (p. 66)-Mahāyāna philosophy (p. 66) Buddhist epistemology (p. 68)-Tantrism (p. 69)-Lamotte's Histoire du bouddhisme indien (p. 69)-Tibetan Buddhism (p. 69)-Chinese Buddhism (p. 70)
By 1943 some of the greatest scholars of the preceding period had passed away: to mention only a few: Sylvain Lévi, Louis de La Vallée Poussin and Stcherbatsky. Lüders died in 1943 but his Beobachtungen über die Sprache des buddhistischen Urkanons appeared posthumously and in an incomplete form only in 1954. Several scholars who had already published important work before 1943 continued their activity after that date, for instance Friedrich Weller and Ernst Waldschmidt in Germany, Étienne Lamotte in Belgium, Erich Frauwallner in Austria and Giuseppe Tucci in Italy. With the death of Stcherbatsky Buddhist studies declined in Russia and only in recent years does one observe an increasing interest in Buddhism, especially in the field of Central
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