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) In the field of tathāgatagarbha studies the most important publications are due to Jikido Takasaki, the leading Japanese specialist in this field. He published a Japanese translation of the Ratnagotravibhāga which he had previously rendered into English (Roma, 1966). His collected articles on tathāgatagarbha were published in two volumes. Motilal Banarsidass announced the publication of a book by Brian E. Brown on tathāgatagarbha and alayavijñāna.
13. The epistemological school has been studied intensively in recent years by many scholars both in Japan and in the West. It is to be hoped that a specialist in this field will give a critical survey of the many publications which have appeared since Hajime Nakamura's Indian Buddhism (1980) which contains a chapter on logicians (pp. 294-312).
One of the most important publications on Dignāga is Richard Hayes's Dignāga on the Interpretation of Signs which contains a translation of the most important parts of chapter two and five of the Pramānasamuccaya. Shõryū Katsura studied the development of the concept of vyāpti (pervasion) which was established by Dignāga as the formal and structural basis of the inevitable relation. A brief summary of his long Japanese article was published in 1986. Much bibliographical information is to be found in two articles which Katsura contributed to a collective work on Indian Buddhism: one on the logical school and one on apoha.
In June 1989 the second conference on Dharmakīrti was held in Vienna. The first took place in Kyoto in July 1982. Hõjun Nagasaki published a report on the Vienna conference. He mentions a rumour according to which Christian Lindtner and Miss Hu Haiyan were preparing a critical edition of a Sanskrit manuscript of the Pramāņaviniscaya but neither of them seems to have seen the manuscript in Beijing.
In 1984 Tilmann Vetter published a translation of verses 131cd-285 of the pramāṇasiddhi chapter of the Pramāņavārttika. Recently his work was discussed in a long review by Eli Franco. Vittorio A. van
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