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and Christiaan Hooykaas (1902–1979).' In 1980 Valentina Stache-Rosen (1925-1980)8 and Friedrich Weller (1889-1980)o passed away. The following year Isaline Horner (1896–1981)10 died. In 1982 Jean Filliozat (1906-1982)11 passed away and in May of this year Étienne Lamotte (1903–1983) departed this life. It is not necessary, I believe, to describe here the accomplishments of these scholars, as their books have been mentioned in previous lectures or will be referred to in the course of this lecture. Apart from Frank-Richard Hamm and Valentina Stache-Rosen, who died at a relatively young age, all the scholars mentioned died in their seventies or eighties or even in their nineties, and their contributions to Buddhist studies are well-known. I would like, however, to say a few words about Étienne Lamotte whose recent death is still so fresh in our memory. In 1973 I expressed the hope that he would be able to complete his translation of the first parivarta (chüan 1-34) of the Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra or Prajñāpāramitopadeśa. The first three volumes of his translation appeared in 1944, 1949 and 1970. In 1976 and 1980 Lamotte published volume four and volume five, thereby completing his translation of the first parivarta. The complete work, which contains more than two thousand five hundred pages, is of a scope without parallel in the history of Buddhist studies in the West. It is difficult to realise that these five large volumes constitute only a part of his achievement. We also owe him excellent translations of five important works: Samdhinirmocana (1935), Karmasiddhiprakarana (1936), Mahāyānasamgraha (1938-1939), Vimala
liographies of his writings see E. Conze, Further Buddhist Studies (Oxford, 1975), pp. 222–234; The Prajñāpāramitā Literature (Tokyo, 1978), pp. 127-137, and The Memoirs of a Modern Gnostic, Part I (Sherborne, 1979), pp. 154-157; see also Prajñāpāramitā and Related Systems: Studies in Honor of Edward Conze (Berkeley, 1977 (1979]), pp. 419-433.
? J. L. Swellengrebel, 'In memoriam C. Hooykaas 26th December 1902-13th August 1979', BKI 136 (1980), pp. 190–214.
8 Ernst Waldschmidt, "Valentina Stache-Rosen (1925–1980)', ZDMG 132 (1982), pp. 22–28.
9 Wilhelm Rau, 'Friedrich Weller (1889–1980)', ZDMG 132 (1982), pp. 1-21.
10 'Selected bibliography of publications by I. B. Horner', Buddhist Studies in Honour of 1. B. Horner (Dordrecht, 1974), pp: ix-xi: R. E. and C. W. Iggleden, 'Isaline Blew Horner: A Biographical Sketch', ibid., pp. 1-8.
11 “Travaux de Jean Filliozat', Jean Filliozat. Laghu-prabandhāh. Choix d'articles d'indologie (Leiden, 1974), pp. xi-xxv. 'Bibliographie des travaux de Jean Filliozat, JA CCLXXI (1983), pp. 5–24.
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