Notes On Bodhisattvabhumi

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

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NOTES ON THE BODHISATTVABHŪMI
by
J. W. DE JONG, Canberra
In 1904 Unrai Wogihara (1869-1937) prepared two transcripts of the manuscript of the Bodhisattvabhūmi in the library of the University of Cambridge (C.). In the same year he published some lexical notes on the Bodhisattvabhūmi (Wogihara, 1904). In his Strassburg dissertation Wogihara studied in great detail the vocabulary of the Bodhisattvabhūmi (Wogihara, 1908 and 1930). Wogihara's edition of the text itself (W.) was published in 1930 and 1936 (Wogihara, 1930-1936). His second transcript was used by C. Bendall and L. de La Vallée Poussin for their summary of the text in which the technical terms are all quoted in Sanskrit (Bendall and de La Vallée Poussin, 1905, 1906, 1911). De La Vallée Poussin did not complete this summary, which covers pp. 1-113 of Wogihara's edition. In his publications, de La Vallée Poussin often refers to the Bodhisattvabhūmi, but it must be taken into account that he had at his disposal only an uncorrected copy (cf. de La Vallée Poussin, 1923-1931, 1928, 1928-1929 and 1929). The same copy was used by Johannes Rahder for his edition of the Viharapaṭala and the Bhumipaṭala of the Bodhisattvabhumi (Rahder, 1926, appendice, pp. 1-28). After the publication of the first volume of Wogihara's edition, Ernst Leumann made a new edition of the first part of chapter I, 8 (pp. 95-110 in Wogihara's edition) and published an analysis of the chapter on "sila" (Leumann, 1931, 1933-1936).
Abbreviations: C.: Cambridge manuscript of the Bodhisattvabhūmi Ch.: Hsüan-tsang's translation of the Bodhisattvabhūmi - D.: Dutt's edition of the Bodhisattvabhumi K.: Kyoto manuscript of the Bodhisattvabhūmi - R.: Rāhula Sänkṛtyāyana's manuscript of the Bodhisattvabhūmi - T.: Tibetan translation of the Bodhisattvabhūmi, Derge edition, Sems Tsam, vol. 7. Photomechanic reprint. Tokyo, The Sekai Seiten Kanko Kyokai Co. Ltd., 1980
W.: Wogihara's edition of the Bodhisattvabhūmi.