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schen Texte aus den Turfan-Funden were published in 1984 and 1987. With the publication of the sixth fascicle the vowels will be complete. In 1990 Heinz Bechert published a very useful list of abbreviations for Buddhist literature in India and South-East Asia as a supplement to the Sanskrit dictionary of Buddhist texts from Turfan. Also the vowel section of the Critical Pāli dictionary approaches completion, almost seventy years after the publication of the first fascicle. Four fascicle's were published in 1985, 1987, 1988 and 1989. Volume II, part VI of the Pali Tipitakaṁ Concordance was published in 1984 but no new fascicles have been announced.
Three more fascicles of the Encyclopaedia of Buddhism were published in 1984, 1988 and 1989.
A Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese index of the Saddharmapundarīkasūtra is being published by the Reiyukai. The first fascicle appeared in 1985 and the seventh (purusottama-bauddha) in 1990. Takashi Maeda published a Tibetan-Sanskrit-Chinese index to the first chapter of the Sarvatathāgatatattvasangraha. Yumiko Ishihama and Yoichi Fukuda published a critical edition of the Mahāvyutpatti comprising the Sanskrit, Tibetan and Mongolian terms. The two Mongolian translations have been edited on the basis of the Leningrad manuscript and the Mongolian Tanjur. Mie Ishikawa edited the Sgra-sbyor bam-po gñis-pa.
Two comprehensive Tibetan dictionaries were published in recent years: George N. Roerich's Tibetan-Russian-English dictionary with Sanskrit equivalents and the Great Tibetan-Chinese dictionary published in Beijing in three volumes in 1985. .
T.C.H. Raper compiled a catalogue of the Pāli printed books in the India Office Library and C.E. Godakumbura made a catalogue of Cambodian and Burmese Pāli manuscripts in the Copenhagen library. Heinz Braun and Daw Tin Tin Myint published the second volume of the catalogue of Burmese manuscripts in German collections. Siegfried Lienhard published the first volume of the catalogue of Nepalese manuscripts in the State Library in Berlin.
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