Recent Buddhist Studies In Europe And America

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

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the spiritual place of the epistemological tradition in Buddhism in a lecture given at several universities in Japan in 1982.99 A student of Steinkellner, Gudrun Bühnemann, translated Ratnakīrti's Sarvajñasiddhi.100 In 1930 Frauwallner translated Dignāga's Ālambanaparikşāvstti into German. Recently the same text was translated into English by Fernando Tola and Carmen Dragonetti. 101
Alex Wayman has been active in the field of Tantric studies. In 1973 he published a collection of articles and in 1977 a book on the Yoga of the Guhyasamājatantra. 102 Christopher S. George edited and translated the first eight chapters of the Candamahāroşaņa tantra of which de La Vallée Poussin had edited the sixteenth chapter in 1897.103 Many Sanskrit Tantric manuscripts are kept in manuscript collections and still await an editor. It is a pity that in the West few scholars seem to be interested in the philological study of Tantric texts. We owe to a Japanese scholar, Horiuchi Kanpin, the edition of one of the most important tantras, the Sarvatathāgatatattvasamgraha.104 Per Kvaerne published in 1977 a very thorough study of the Caryāgīti.109 His book contains the text of the Caryāgīti and of Munidatta's commentary and an edition of the Tibetan versions. The concept of sahaja which plays an important role in these Tantric songs was studied by him in a separate article. 106
In the field of Buddhist literature remarkable work has been done by
buddhi's Viśālāmalavati', A Corpus of Indian Studies: Essays in Honour of Professor Gaurinath Sastri (Calcutta, 1980), pp. 96-105; 'Philological remarks on Sākyamati's Pramānavārttikaţikā', Studien zum Jainismus und Buddhismus: Gedenkschrift für Ludwig Alsdorf (Wiesbaden, 1981), pp. 283–295.
99 "The spiritual place of the epistemological tradition in Buddhism, Nanto Bukkyo 49 (1982), pp. 1-18.
100 Der allwissende Buddha. Ein Beweis und seine Probleme. Ratnakirtis Sarvajñasiddhi. Wien, 1980. Cf. J. W. de Jong's review IIJ 25 (1983), pp. 155–158.
101 Dignāga's Alambanaparikşāvstti', JIPh 10 (1982), pp. 105-134.
102 The Buddhist Tantras: Light on Indo-Tibetan Esotericism. New York, 1973; Yoga of the Guhyasamäjatantra: The Arcane Lore of Forty Verses. Delhi, 1977. On the latter work see Per Kvaerne's review IIJ 22 (1980), pp. 242-247.
103 The Candamahārosana Tantra. A Critical Edition and English Translation, Chapters I-VIII. New Haven, 1974.
104 Volume I, Koyasan, 1983; Volume II, Koyasan, 1974.
105 An Anthology of Buddhist Tantric Songs: A Study of the Caryāgiti. Oslo, 1977. Cf. K. R. Norman's review Acta Orientalia 41 (1980), pp. 105-109.
106 'On the Concept of Sahaja in Indian Buddhist Tantric Literature', Temenos 11 (1975), pp. 88-135.
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