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Taurinensia (XIV, 1987-88) published a volume in honour of Colette Caillat. Three Japanese scholars were honoured with felicitation volumes: Jikidō Takasaki: Takasaki Jikidö hakushi kanrekikinenronshu-Indogaku bukkyögaku ronshů (Tokyo, 1987). Masaaki Hattori: Indoshisōshi kenkyů 6-Hattori Masaaki hakushi taikankinenronshú (Kyōto, 1989) and Kōtatsu Fujita: Fujita Kotatsu kanrekikinenronshu-Indo tetsugaku to bukkyō (Kyoto, 1989). In 1990 Tadeusz Skorupski published a volume of Indo-Tibetan Studies. Papers in honour and appreciation of Professor David L. Snellgrove's contribution to Indo-Tibetan Studies (Tring, 1990). The volume does not include a bibliography of Snellgrove's writings but the most important ones are mentioned in Skorupski's article: "The Life and Adventures of David Snellgrove" (pp. 1-21). Many articles on Buddhism are to be found in the following three felicitation volumes: Eivind Kahrs (ed.), Kalyanamitrārāganam. Essays in Honour of Nils Simonsson (Oslo, 1986); Harry Falk (ed.), Hinduismus und Buddhismus. Festschrift für Ulrich Schneider (Freiburg, 1987); Gilbert Pollet (ed.), India and the Ancient World. History, Trade and Culture before A.D. 650. Professor P.H.L. Eggermont Jubilee Volume Presented on the occasion of his seventieth birthday (Leuven, 1987).
3. In recent years there has been a lively discussion among scholars about the possibility of recovering the original message of the Buddha. A workshop on "Earliest Buddhism" held during the VIIth World Sanskrit Conference in Leiden in August 1987 showed that there were irreconcilable opinions about this. Three of the four papers read at the conference have been published by L. Schmithausen. In his preface he outlines three different positions: 1. Some scholars, mainly British, accept the reliability of the greater part of the Nikayas and believe that the canonical texts give a true picture of the doctrine of the Buddha. 2. Other scholars believe that it is not possible to retrieve the doctrine. of earliest Buddhism, not to speak of the Buddha's own doctrine be
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