Buddhist Studies 1984 1990

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

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nized edition of the manuscripts of the Lotus sutra, published notes on the Saddharmapundarika-stavas and a study of the Sanskrit manuscripts of the Lotus sutra.
The edition of 85 folios of seven manuscripts of the Saddharmapundarikasūtra by M. Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya is accompanied by facsimiles. The same volume also contains editions of six fragments of the Mahāparinirvanasûtra and of an almost complete manuscript of the Dharmasarirasutra by G.M. Bongard-Levin. The fragments of the Mahāparinirvanasütra have also been published in an English edition in Tokyo. New fragments of the same text were discovered by Kazunobu Matsuda in the Stein/Hoernle collection in the India Office Library. Bongard-Levin and Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya have also published at survey of the Sanskrit texts from Central Asia in the Leningrad collection.
The fifth volume of the catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts from Central Asia (Sanskrithandschriften aus den Turfanfunden, Teil V, Stuttgart, 1985) contains facsimiles of the fragments described in this volume. However, the sixth volume (Stuttgart, 1989) does not contain any facsimiles. Volume five also includes a word index. In both volumes the majority of the texts consist of fragments of vinaya and sutra texts most of which have been identified. Additions and corrections to volumes 1 to 5 are to be found in an important appendix in volume six (pp. 209-225). Fumio Enomoto has been able to identify many fragments as belonging to the Samyuktagama. He has also recently edited several Samyuktagama fragments found in Bamiyan and in Eastern Turkestan. In a recent article he has shown that the Chinese Samyuktagama belongs to the Mülasarvästiväda school.
Very welcome also is the publication of a new series entitled Bibliotheca Codicum Asiaticorum the first volume of which contains facsimiles of Sanskrit manuscripts of three works of Vasubandhu: the Trisvabhavanirdesa, the Vimśatika with its vṛtti and the Trimsika with Sthiramati's commentary. Noteworthy is the inclusion of a photocopy,
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