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
dhavamsa and Cariyāpitaka.122 Her last work was a translation of her edition of the Buddhavamsa commentary. 123 Bhikkhu Nānamoli translated the Pațisambhidāmagga.1 24 In 1982 the Pali Text Society published a very useful index of the Kathāvatthu which was compiled by a group of Japanese scholars.125 A new translation of the famous Vessantara-jātaka was published by the Oxford University Press in 1977.126 K. R. Norman published some important notes on the text of this jātaka.127 Ludwig Alsdorf wrote an article on the Bhūridatta-jātaka in which he suggested corrections in the text. 128
One of the most important publications is that of the Burmese recension of a collection of fifty jātakas by P. S. Jaini.129 An important cosmological text, the Lokapaññatti, was edited by Eugène Denis who examined in detail the relations of this text to other texts in Pāli, Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan. 13° According to Denis the Lokapaññatti was probably translated into Pāli, or compiled in Pāli making use of Sanskrit sources, in Burma in the eleventh or twelfth century. Jacqueline Ver Eecke has edited and translated two later Pāli texts, the Dasavatthupakaraṇa and the Sīhaļavatthupakaraņa. 131 Her editions are based mainly upon Sinhalese editions. H. Saddhātissa has written a number of articles on Pāli literature in Thailand, Cambodia and Laos. 132 Oskar von Hinüber showed the
122 Vimānavatthu: Stories of the Mansions. London, 1974; Buddhavamsa: Chronicle of Buddhas, Cariväpi taka: Basket of Conduct. London, 1975.
123 Clarifier of the Sweet Meaning (Buddhavamsa Commentary). London, 1978. 124 The Path of Discrimination (Pațisambhidāmagga). London, 1982.
125 Index to the Kathāvatthu. Compiled by Tetsuya Tabata, Satoshi Nonome, Toyoaki Uesugi, Shokū Bando and Genshoh Unoke. London, 1982.
126 Margaret Cone and Richard F. Gombrich, The Perfect Generosity of Prince Vessantara. Oxford, 1977.
127 'Notes on the Vessantara-jātaka', Studien zum Jainismus und Buddhismus: Gedenkschrift für Ludwig Alsdorf (Wiesbaden, 1981), pp. 163-174.
128 'Das Bhūridatta-jātaka', WZKS 21 (1977), pp. 25-55.
129 Paññāsa-jātaka or Zimme Pannasa (in the Burmese Recension). 2 vols. London, 1981-1983.
130 La Lokapaññatti et les idées cosmologiques du bouddhisme ancien. 2 vols. Paris, 1977.
131 Le Dasavatthupakaraņa. Paris, 1976; Le Sihaļavatthupakaraņa. Paris, 1980.
132 'Pāli Literature of Thailand', Buddhist Studies in Honour of 1. B. Horner (Dordrecht, 1974), pp. 211-225;'The Dawn of Pali Literature in Thailand', Malalasekera Commemoration Volume (Colombo, 1976), pp. 315-324; 'Pali Studies in Cambodia', Buddhist Studies in Honour of Walpola Rahula (London, 1980), pp. 242-250; 'Pali
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