Opening Speech 4th International Dharmakirti Conference Vienna 20050823

Author(s): Ernst Steinkellner
Publisher: Ernst Steinkellner

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This much only to introduce my news. My following short survey will be limited, however, and only cover items that are really new, in the sense of texts that were not yet known in Sanskrit, or texts that were as yet completely unknown. Naturally a number of manuscripts of already known texts will also become available and eventually will have to be considered in order to improve the existing editions, a good example being śāntarakṣita's Vādanyāyaţikā.
1. A number of texts of major importance to our work have been named in a first subagreement as the subjects of our cooperation:
a. Jinendrabuddhi's Pramāṇasamuccayaţikā: a complete and unique ms. in
Norbulingka (now possibly in the Tibet Museum). The first two chapters and the fifth are being edited by Krasser, Lasic, and myself. Shoryu Katsura is working on the third chapter and has the option to continue his work with the
fourth and sixth. b. Dharmakīrti's Hetubindu: again a unique manuscript in the Potala: Krasser is
working on its edition. c. Dharmakīrti's Pramāņaviniścaya: two complete manuscripts are available,
another contains the complete first and second chapters, and two larger fragmentary mss are available for the third. The third chapter will be edited by Pascale Hugon, Toru Tomabechi, and Tom Tillemans, and I am editing the
first and second myself. d. An anonymous commentary on the Santānāntarasiddhi which is being studied
by Chu Junjie and more material for this Siddhi can be expected in the future. Sankaranandana's works: partly fragmentary materials of verse and prose texts are available and are being edited by Vincent Eltschinger (more on these last two projects will be presented in their lectures).
2. Now we can look at those texts that we know to exist in CTRC's collection and which may become available if our cooperation is extended after its short first three years period:
a. Dharmottara's Pramāņaviniscayaţikā, chapter 2: an incomplete ms of 72 ff. which begins with commentary on the prose after PVin 2.2cd. b. Dharmottara's Pramāņaviniscayaţikā, chapter 3: a complete ms of 120 ff. c. Yamāri's Pramāņavārttikālankāranibandha, chapter 1: complete ms for this
chapter of 205 ff.
CADOKUMENIE UND EINSTELLUNGENVERNS'INDESKTOPESTE DATENTEXTE GRÖBERES VORTRÄGE. DH-CONF. NEWS FROM THE MANUSCRIPT DEPARTMENT DOC (30-Dec-05)