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
by Alsdorf and T. R. Chopra.31 Ernst Leumann's translation of Mahāvastu, I, pp. 1-193.12 has been published in Japan.32 This was not available to Jones but he could have made use of Otto Franke's translation of Mahāvastu, I, pp. 4.15-45.16, which was published posthumously:33 In The Earliest Vinaya : and the Beginnings of Buddhist Literature (Rome, 1956) Erich Frauwallner tried to establish that the Vinayas of the different schools derive from a work called Skandhaka, composed in the first half of the 4th century B.c. This theory has been accepted by several scholars but was rejected by Lamotte (Histoire du bouddhisme indien, 1, pp. 194–197).
Important work on the history of early Buddhism ħas been published by André Bareau (1921- ), who made a comprehensive study of the materials which have been transmitted on the Buddhist sects and on the councils.34 Bareau has written a large work on the biography of the Buddha which is based upon a critical examination of the information on the life of the Buddha contained in the Sūtrapitakas, the Vinayas of the Theravādin, the Mahāśāsaka
1 the Dharmaguptaka, and the Sanskrit Mahāparinirvānasūtra and parallel texts. 35 Bareau's work is an important contribution to the study of the "successive states of the legend of the Buddha," to use the title of a chapter of Lamotte's book in which he distinguishes five successive states in the development of the Buddha legend.36 A. Foucher's La vie du bouddha (Paris, 1949) is important not for a critical examination of the literary sources of the Buddha
31 L. Alsdorf, Verkannte Mahāvastu-Strophen, WZKSO, XII-XIII, 1968, pp. 13-22; T.R. Chopra, The Kuša-jātaka, Hamburg, 1966.
32 Proceedings of the Faculty of Liberal Arts Education, Yamanashi University, IIII, 1952, 1957, 1962. The translation of Mahāvastu II. 83.13-121.14 by Ernst Leumann and Watanabe Shōkō was published in Indo koten kenkyü (Acta Indologica), I, 1970, pp. 63-108.
33 Maudgalyāyanas Wanderung durch die leidvollen Welten, z.f.Missionskunde und Religionswissenschaft, 45, 1930, pp. 1-22; Zur Erinnerung an R. Otto Franke, Königsberger Beiträge. Festschrift zum 400-jähr. Jubelfest d. Staats- und Univ. - Bibliothek zu Königsberg/Pr. (Königsberg, 1929), pp. 115-124.
34 Les sectes bouddhiques du petit bébicule, Saïgon, 1955; Les premiers conciles bouddhiques, Paris, 1955.
35 Recherches sur la biographie du Buddha dans les Sūtrapitaka et les Vinayapitaka anciens, Paris, 1963, 1970, 1971.
36 Histoire du bouddhisme indien, I, Louvain, 1958, pp. 718-733.
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