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
Asian archaeology. In other countries, however, many scholars either specialized in Buddhism or devoted much of their research to Buddhism. Although the total number of specialists in this field in the West is considerably smaller than in Japan, the future of Buddhist studies looks much brighter now than it did in the first post-war years.
One of the most important contributions to Buddhist studies in recent years is undoubtedly Franklin Edgerton's monumental Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Grammar and Dictionary (New Haven 1953). Franklin Edgerton (1885-1963) embarked upon this immense task in the nineteen-thirties and a number of articles preceded the publication of his grammar and dietfonary. However, only after the publication of his work did Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit become the subject of a lively discussion. Yuyama lists nineteen reviews of Edgerton's work and several articles (by Bailey, Brough, Iwamoto, Nobel, Raghavan, Regamey and Smith) which are inspired by it." Edgerton defended his views in several articles and reviews and also continued his work on BHS(=Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit in everal publications. In his Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Reader (New Haven, 1953) he applied his principles in the editing of several BHS
1 Cf. Heinz Bechert, Buddhismus, Staat und Gesellschaft in den Ländern des TheravādaBuddhismus, I, Frankfurt am Main-Berlin, 1966, p. 138; A. N. Kotschetow, Die buddhistische Forschung in der UdSSR, Buddhist Tearly 1967 (Halle, 1967), pp. 86-118; N.L. Zukovskaja, Sovetskaja buddologija (bibliografičeskij obzor za 1959-1969 gody), Narody Azii i Afriki, 1970 (6), pp. 148-156.
2 The Prakrit underlying Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, BSOS, 8, 1936, pp. 501-516; Nouns of the a-declension in Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, HJAS, I, 1936, pp. 65-83; The meter of the Saddharmapundarika, Kuppuswami Sastri Commemoration Volume, Madras, 1936, pp. 39-45; Gerunds in Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, Language, 13, 1937, pp. 107-122; The aorist in Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, JAOS, 57, 1937, pp. 16-34; Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit samdbā, samdhi-(nirmocana), JAOS, 57, 1937, pp. 185-188; Meter, phonology, and orthography in Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, JAOS, 66, 1946, pp. 197-206; Indic Causatives in -āpayati (-āpeti, -āvai), Language, 22, 1946, pp. 94-102.
3 Akira Yuyama, A Bibliography of the Sanskrit Texts of the Saddharmapundarikasūtra, Canberra, 1970, pp. 80-81.
4 Reviews of Waldschmidt's Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra, Mahāvadānasūtra and Catusparisatsūtra, JAOS, 72, 1952, pp. 114-117; 77, 1957, pp. 227-232; Language, 39, 1963, pp. 489-493; of Ensink's The questions of Rāstrapāla, JAOS, 73, 1953, pp. 169-170; Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit language and literature, Banaras, 1954; Semantic notes on Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, Sprachgeschichte und Wortbedeutung (Festschrift Albert Debrunner), Bern, 1954, pp.*
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