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SERIE ORIENTALE ROMA
DIRECTED BY GIUSEPPE TUCCI
ASSISTANT-DIRECTOR: PROF. ANTONIO GARGANO
I - G. TUCCI, The tombs of the Tibetan Kings. Rome 1950.
16 x 24 cm.; pp. 117, with an Appendix containing inscriptions and edicts in the Tibetan text, with transcriptions. 5 plates. (out of print).
The book illustrates the remarkable results attained by the Tucci expedition to Tibet in 1948, in the course of which the tombs of the ancient Tibetan kings were discovered, in addition to some inscriptions of the ancient period of Tibetan history. In this volume other documents are also published referring to the events which have accompanied the introduction of Buddhism in Tibet.
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II – L. PETECH, Northern India according to the Shui-ching-chu. Rome 1950. 16 x 24 cm.; pp. 89, with an Appendix on the name of Chi-pin.
Brochure Lit. 800 Cloth-binding Lit. 1.300
The information on Northern India collected in the Shui-ching-chu or Commentary to the Classic of Waters - a work dating back to the 6th cent. A.D. - is here studied for the first time. This information stems from various sources, mostly from travel accounts by Chinese Buddhist pilgrims, all lost nowadays except for Fa-hsien. An Appendix deals with the name Chi-pin, which in the earliest times had two different meanings: the great power of the Indo-Afghan frontier for the Chinese historians, and Kashmir for the Chinese Buddhist translators.
III – E. FRAUWALLNER, On the Date of the Buddhist Master of the Law
Vasubandhu. Rome 1951. 16 x 24 cm.; pp. 69, with an extensive bibliography on the subject.
Lit. 500
An investigation based upon Indian, Chinese, and Tibetan sources, on one of the most controversial problems concerning the chronology of Buddhism: at what time did Vasubandhu live, the author of Abhidharmakośa ? Was there only one Vasubandhu or was there a second one? The author concludes in favour of the second solution.
