Recent Buddhist Studies In Europe And America

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

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RECENT BUDDHIST STUDIES
Of particular importance is the fact that in recent years scholars have concentrated their attention on the Mūlamadhyamakakārikās in order to analyse Nāgārjuna's philosophy. In his book Seyfort Ruegg takes this text as his basis for his sketch of some important points of philosophical interest in Nāgārjuna's thought. Also based exclusively upon it are two articles by Tilmann Vetter and a very detailed study of the logic and dialectics of Nāgārjuna by Guy Bugault.67
Lindtner published in his Nagarjuniana an edition of the Tibetan text of the Sūnyatāsaptati, of the Sanskrit text and the Tibetan version of the Vigrahavyāvartanī, of the Tibetan version and the Sanskrit fragments of the Yuktişaştikā and of the Bodhicittavivarana. His book also contains the first edition of the Sanskrit text of the Lokātītastava and the Acintyastava. According to Lindtner, the four hymns of Nāgārjuna are the following: Lokātītastava, Niraupamyastava, Acintyastava and Paramarthastava, because these four are found in four MSS and are often quoted. Moreover, the same four hymns are found in Amstākara's Catuḥstavasamāsārtha.68 In his book Lindtner has translated into English the following texts: Sūnyatāsaptati, Yuktişaşţikā, Lokātītastava, Acintyastava, Bodhicittavivarana and the Bodhisambhāra[ka]. Moreover, he has translated into Danish the four following texts in his book Nagarjuna: Juvelkaeden og andre skrifter (København, 1980): Ratnāvali, Yuktişaşţikā, Niraupamyastava and Paramārthastava. His Nāgārjuna's filosofiske vaerker (København, 1982) contains a Danish translation of the Bodhicittavivarana, the Lokātītastava, the Acintyastava, the Mūlamadhyamakakārikās, the Sünyatāsaptativștti, the Vigrahavyāvartanī, and the Bodhisambhāra[ka]. Moreover, this book contains also an edition of the Tibetan text of the Śūnyatāsaptativștti.
Michael Hahn has published a new edition of Nāgārjuna's Ratnāvalī.69
67 'Die Lehre Nāgārjunas in den Müla-Madhyamaka-Kārikās', Epiphanie des Heils (Wien, 1982), pp. 87-108; 'Zum Problem der Person in Nāgārjuna's MūlaMadhyamaka-Karikās', Offenbarung als Heilserfahrung im Christentum, Hinduismus und Buddhismus (Freiburg-Basel-Wien, 1982), pp. 167-185; Guy Bugault, 'Logic and dialectics in the Madhyamakakārikās', Journal of Indian Philosophy 11 (1983), pp. 776.
68 Cf. G. Tucci, Minor Buddhist Texts, I (Roma, 1956), pp. 236-237; É. Lamotte, Le traité de la grande vertu de sagesse, III (Louvain, 1970), p. xliii.
69 Michael Hahn, Nägärjuna's Ratnāvali. Vol. 1. The Basic Texts (Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese). Bonn, 1982.
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