Buddhist Studies 1984 1990

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

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Buddhist studies 1984-1990 (J. W. de Jong) alas not very legible, of a Sanskrit manuscript of the Triņšikā belonging to the Cultural Palace of the Nationalities in Beijing.
6. Many text editions have been published in recent years. In 1986 Georg von Simson published an edition of manuscripts of the Prātimokşasūtra of the Sarvāstivādins. The final part of the same Prātimokşasūtra was edited by Klaus T. Schmidt who compared the Sanskrit and Tokharian A versions with parallel versions. Klaus T. Wille has given a very useful survey of the Gilgit manuscript of the Vinayavastu of the Mūlasarvāstivādins of which 405 out of the total of 523 leaves have been preserved. His book includes an edition or new edition of a number of fragments. In a postscriptum Heinz Bechert draws attention to an unauthorized edition of leaves 199-201 of the Gilgit manuscript of the Vinayavastu by Hisashi Matsumura and lists a number of misreadings. Claus Vogel and Klaus Wille published fragments of a Gilgit manuscript of the Pravrajyāvastu.
Fragments of the Dirghāgama of the Sarvāstivādins were published by Jens-Uwe Hartmann. The same volume comprises an edition of canonical verses, the Sarīragātha which occur in the Yogācārabhūmi, by Fumio Enomoto and a not very satisfactory edition of the Ayuhparyantasūtra by Hisashi Matsumura.
In the field of Abhidharma literature one must mention editions of Dharmaskandha fragments by Siglinde Dietz and Kazunobu Matsuda. Fragments of the Lokaprajñapti have been identified by Matsuda. Siglinde Dietz has identified other fragments of the same text in a Gilgit manuscript and in the Turfan collection. According to her 48 pages out of the 222 pages of the Tibetan translation are preserved in the Sanskrit fragments.
7. Jens-Uwe Hartmann's edition of Mātộceta's Varņārhavarṇastotra replaces the previous edition published by D.R. Shackleton Bailey in 1950. Shackleton Bailey had at his disposal about 58% of the original
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