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
mentary and Mervyn Sprung several chapters of Candrakirti's Prasannapadā.78 However, the latter translation has not found favour with reviewers. 79
More than seventy years ago de La Vallée Poussin published his incomplete translation of Candrakirti's Madhyamakāvatāra and his bhāşya. 8° Recently Helmut Tauscher has continued de La Vallée Poussin's work by translating the last part of chapter six (verses 166–226) which had not been translated by de La Vallée Poussin.81 Christian Lindtner has published the Tibetan text of Candrakīrti's Pañcaskandhaprakarana which is to be followed by an English translation.82
One of the most popular works of the Madhyamaka literature is śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra of which several new translations have recently been published: in English by Stephen Batchelor, in German by Ernst Steinkellner, in Danish by Christian Lindtner and in Dutch by Ria Kloppenborg.83
Among the later Madhyamaka scholars one of the most important is Kamalaśīla, the disciple of Sāntarakşita, on whose Tattvasamgraha he wrote a very extensive commentary. He is also the author of three Bhāvanākramas which have been much studied in recent years.84 In 1977 J. van den Broeck published a French translation of the first Bhāvanākrama
78 Christian Lindtner, 'Buddhapālita on Emptiness (Buddhapālitamūlamadhyamakavštti XVIII)', IIJ 23 (1981), pp. 187-217; Mervyn Sprung, Lucid Exposition of the Middle Way: The Essential Chapters from the Prasannapadā of Candrakirti. London, 1979.
79 Cf. J. W. de Jong, IIJ 23 (1981), pp. 227-230; Ernst Steinkellner, JAOS 102 (1982), pp. 411-414.
80 Le Muséon 8 (1907), pp. 249–317; 11 (1910), pp. 271-358; 12 (1911), pp. 236328.
81 Candrakirti: Madhyamakāvatārah und Madhyamakāvatārabhäşyam (Kapitel VI, Vers 166-226). Wien, 1981; cf. J. W. de Jong, IIJ 25 (1983), pp. 214–215.
82 Candrakirti's Pañcaskandhaprakarana. I. Tibetan Text', Acta Orientalia 40 (1979), pp. 87-145.
83 Stephen Batchelor, A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life. Dharamsala, 1979: Ernst Steinkellner, Santideva: Eintritt in das Leben zur Erleuchtung (Bodhicaryāvatāra). Düsseldorf-Köln, 1981; Chr. Lindtner, To Buddhistiske Laeredigte. København, 1981, pp. 36-162; Ria Kloppenborg's translation is mentioned by Chr. Lindtner, op. cit., p. 7, n. 2, who also refers to an Italian translation by A. Pezzali.
84 Cf. A. Yuyama, IIJ 17 (1975), pp. 265-270; J. W. de Jong, IIJ 25 (1983), pp. 154155.
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