Buddhist Studies 1984 1990

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

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the footprint. Part I of Bhiķku Nāņamoli's translation of the Sammohavinodani was revised by L.S. Cousins, Nyanaponika Mahāthera and C.M.M. Shaw. N.A. Jayawickrama made a new translation of the Nidāna-kathā of the Jātakatthakathā. Peter Masefield translated the commentary on the Vimāna stories. An index to the Dhammasangani was compiled by Tetsuya Tabata, Satoshi Nonome and Shōkū. Bando:
Very welcome is the revival of the Journal of the Pali Text Society of which four volumes (X-XIII) appeared in the years 1985-1989. The Journal publishes texts, translations, studies, notes, etc.
Two scholars made important contributions to the study of Pāli commentaries. Friedgard Lottermoser wrote a dissertation on Quoted Verse Passages in the Works of Buddhaghosa. Sodo Mori published in Japanese a Study of the Pāli commentaries. Recently he published a collection of twelve articles in English which will make his views better known to non-Japanese scholars. Sodo Mori is also responsible for the publication of the journal Bukkyo Kenkyū (Buddhist Studies) which is. published principally for studies in Early and Pāli Buddhism. Volumes 14-19 (I have not seen volume 18) were published in 1984-1990. It contains articles both in Japanese and English
Japanese scholars have also been active in translating Pāli texts. Volume seven of a series of ten volumes of Early Buddhist texts (Genshi butten) contains a translation of the Dhammapada by Kötatsu Fujita and a translation of the Suttanipāta by Noritoshi Aramaki and Yoshifumi Honjo. I have not seen other volumes and do not know if all ten volumes have appeared. Also translated into Japanese were the Jātakas in ten volumes of which I have been able to consult volume one, containing the translation of jātakas 1-70 by Kötatsu Fujita and volume four containing the translation of jātakas 301-385 by Hisashi Matsumura and Shinya Matsuda.
K.R. Norman and O. von Hinüber published numerous articles relating to Pāli studies. It is to be hoped that in due course von Hinüber's collected papers will be published in the same way as those of Norman. ( 26 )