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) tute of Bonn University. To Hahn we also owe a reprint of Gauri Shankar's edition of Sivasvāmin's Kapphiņābhyudaya followed by a revised romanized version of cantos i-viii and xix. Hahn describes in detail the new manuscript materials used by him (pp. l-xxxvi of the appendix).
In 1930 N.P. Chakravarti (1893-1956) published an edition of chapters I-III and V-XXI of the Udānavarga. This edition is based upon a manuscript written on wooden planks which was discovered by Paul Pelliot in a temple of Subaši near Kučā. Recently Hideaki Nakatani published a complete edition of the text together with parallel verses. A separate volume contains facsimiles. A volume still to be published will comprise an introduction and a commentary. Prajñāvarman's voluminous commentary on the Udānavarga is preserved in Tibetan translation only. It has been edited by Michael Balk who wrote also a dissertation on the Udānavarga in which he showed the importance of the commentary for the study of the second recension of the Udānavarga which belongs to the school of the Mūlasarvāstivādins. A new edition of the Tibetan text of the Udānavarga was published by Champa Thupten Zongtse together with Siglinde Dietz. This edition is based upon the text of the Lhasa Kanjur and lists in the notes the readings of other editions. Important for the study of the different recensions of the Udānavarga and Dharmapada is Margaret Cone's new edition of the Patna Dharmapada.
The Tanjur contains the Tibetan text of thirteen letters. Three letters have been edited and translated several times: Nāgārjuna's Suhrllekha, Candragomin's Sişyalekha and Mātộceța's Mahārājakanişkalekha. Nine of the remaining ten have been edited and translated by Siglinde Dietz.
8. In 1983 Subhadra Jha published the first volume of an English translation of the Abhidharmakośabhāşya and of La Vallée Poussin's commentary. I do not know if more volumes have been published but not
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