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) text from the Derge Tanjur. Strangely enough, Rudoj. does not even mention this translation. His own work is planned on a grand scale. The first volume comprises a long introduction on Abhidharma philosophy, translation of the first chapter, a detailed commentary, a reconstruction of the system, the Sanskrit, Tibetan and Chinese texts of the kārikās and a Sanskrit-Tibetan-Chinese index.
9. In 1934 Nalinaksha Dutt published an edition of the first chapter of the recast version of the Pancavimśatisāhasrikā Prajñapāramitā. Recently Takayasu Kimura has undertaken the laborious task of editing the other chapters. The text of chapters II-III was published by him in 1986 and that of chapter IV in 1990. Kimura's edition is based upon four manuscripts, two from Tokyo and two from Cambridge. According to him the most correct manuscript is manuscript no.234 from the Tokyo collection. It is to be hoped that Kimura will also be able to publish the remaining chapters.
In December 1982 seven gold plates were discovered in Anurādhapura. The text inscribed on the plates contains sections of the first chapter of the Pancaviņsatisāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā. Oskar von Hinüber who published an edition of the text in 1983 identified it as belonging to the recast version but Tsutomu Yamaguchi proved that it is a portion of the original text prior to its recasting. M.H.F. Jayasuriya has also edited the same text together with a translation. His work appeared in 1988 but does not refer to von Hinüber's edition. An urgent desideratum is an edition of the Gilgit manuscripts of the Pancavimsatisāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā. Also a complete edition of the Satasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā of which P. Ghosha edited the first twelve chapters (Calcutta, 1902-1913) would be very welcome.
The Gilgit manuscript of the Vajracchedikā has been edited twice, in 1956 by N.P. Chakravarti (Giuseppe Tucci, Minor Buddhist Texts. Part I, 1956, pp. 173–192) and in 1959 by Nalinaksha Dutt (Gilgit Manuscripts, Vol. IV, 1959, pp. 139-170). Gregory Schopen recently pub
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