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
shown convincingly that Dutt's edition is not to be relied upon. Roth has published a new edition of the beginning of the text corresponding to Dutt's edition p. 1-p. 2, line 3.91 The Tattvārtha chapter of the Bodhisattvabhūmi was translated by Janice Dean Willis but this work is completely unsatisfactory.92
In 1969 David Seyfort Ruegg published his great work on the doctrines of the tathāgatagarbha and the gotra. It was reviewed in a long article by Schmithausen.93 In 1973 Seyfort Ruegg published a translation of Bu ston's treatise on the tathāgatagarbha.94 His book contains a long introduction on Bu ston's sources and on the doctrine of the tathāgatagarbha according to Bu ston's school. Thanks to the studies of Takasaki and Seyfort Ruegg it has now become possible to understand the importance of this school of thought.
Much work was done by Frauwallner for the study of the epistemological school of Buddhism which was founded by Dignāga and which reached its apogee with Dharmakīrti. Ernst Steinkellner published in 1973 an edition of the Tibetan version and the Sanskrit fragments of the Svārthānumāna chapter of Dharmakīrti's Pramāņaviniscaya.95 His annotated translation appeared in 1979.96 In 1977 he published a verse index of the Tibetan versions of Dharmakīrti's works.97 One must also mention his articles on works by Dharmottara, Karņakagomin, Jñānaśrīmitra, Jinendrabuddhi and sākyamati.98 Recently Steinkellner sketched
91 Gustav Roth, 'Observations on the first chapter of Asanga's Bodhisattvabhūmi', Indologica Taurinensia III-IV (Torino, 1977), pp. 403–412.
92 Janice Dean Willis (tr.), On Knowing Reality: The Tattvārtha Chapter of Asanga's Bodhisattvabhūmi. New York, 1979. Cf. J. W. de Jong's review to be published in OLZ.
93 'Zu D. Seyfort Rueggs Buch "La théorie du tathāgatagarbha et du gotra", WZKS 17.(1973), pp. 123–160.
94 Le traité du tathāgatagarbha de Bu ston Rin chen grub. Paris, 1973. 95 Dharmakirti's Pramāņaviniscayaḥ, Zweites Kapitel: Svārthānumānam. Teil 1: Tibetischer Text und Sanskrittexte. Wien, 1973.
96 Teil II: Übersetzung und Anmerkungen. Wien, 1979. 97 Verse-index of Dharmakirti's works (Tibetan version). Wien, 1977.
98 'Der Einleitungsvers von Dharmottaras Apohaprakaranam', WZKS 20 (1976), pp. 123-124; Jñānaśrimitra's Sarvajñasiddhih', Prajñāpāramitā and Related Systems: Studies in Honor of Edward Conze (Berkeley, 1977), pp. 383–393; 'Yogische Erkenntnis als Problem im Buddhismus', Transzendenzerfahrung, Vollzugshorizont des Heils (Wien, 1978), pp. 121-134; 'Miszellen zur erkenntnistheoretisch-logischen Schule des Buddhismus', WZKS 23 (1979), pp. 141-154; 'Some Sanskrit fragments of Jinendra
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