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
A structural grammar of Pāli was published by T. Y. Elizarenkova and V. N. Toporov in 1976.136
Of great importance for the study of texts are dictionaries, catalogues and bibliographies. A new dictionary, of which up till now three fascicles have been published, is the Sanskrit Dictionary of the Buddhist manuscripts from the Turfan Discoveries which, with the beginning of the third fascicle, includes also manuscript materials from collections other than the Berlin collection.137 It comprises in the first place texts belonging to the Sarvāstivāda school but also Dharmaguptaka and Mūlasarvāstivāda texts. Of the Critical Pāli Dictionary five more fascicles of volume II were published from 1973 to 1982.138 After the death of Ludwig Alsdorf the task of editing the dictionary was entrusted to K. R. Norman. The Hõbõgirin, which is correctly called an encyclopaedic dictionary, is a work well known to Japanese scholars. A fifth fascicle containing many important articles appeared in 1979.139 A new catalogue of the Taisho edition, this time including all one hundred volumes, was published in 1978.140
We mentioned already the catalogues of the Turfan manuscripts. Important for Pāli studies are the catalogue of Ceylonese Manuscripts in the Royal Library in Copenhagen by the late Godakumbura, and the catalogue of Burmese manuscripts by Heinz Bechert. 141 Tibetan blockprints and manuscripts in German collections were described by D. Schuh
136 T. Y. Elizarenkova, V. N. Toporov, The Pali Language. Moscow, 1976.
137 Sanskrit-Wörterbuch der buddhistischen Texte aus den Turfan-funden 1. Lieferung: a-, an- / antar-vāsa. Göttingen, 1973; 2. Lieferung: antar-hā / avadāta-varna. Göttingen, 1976; 3. Lieferung: avadāta-varņa / ātmadrsți-(pratipakşārtham). Göttingen, 1981. See reviews by D. Seyfort Ruegg, JAOS 97 (1977), pp. 550-552; JAOS 99 (1979), pp. 160-161, by L. Schmithausen, ZDMG 132 (1982), pp. 407-414; by M. Hahn, GGA 231 (1979), pp. 273–288 and by W. Thomas, IF 80 (1975), pp. 232– 237; IF 84 (1979), pp. 297-302.
138 Fascicle 8: ugghāțiyati-udaka-sakuņika. Copenhagen, 1973; fascicle 9: udakasankhāta—upakkama. Copenhagen, 1975; fascicle 10: upakkama-uparima. Copenhagen, 1979; fascicle 11: uparima-uposathakiriyā. Copenhagen, 1981; fascicle 12: Uposathakumāra-uļumpa. Copenhagen, 1982. For bibliographical details on reviews see Oskar von Hinüber's review of fascicles 6-10: 'Bemerkungen zum Critical Pāli Dictionary II', KZ 94 (1980), pp. 10–31.
139 Hõbõgirin. Cinquième fascicule: chõotsusho-chữu. Paris-Tokyo, 1979. 140 Répertoire du canon bouddhique sino-japonais. Paris-Tokyo, 1978.
141 C. E. Godakumbura, Catalogue of Ceylonese Manuscripts. Copenhagen, 1980; Heinz Bechert, Daw Khin Khin Su and Daw Tin Tin Myint, Burmese Manuscripts, Part I. Wiesbaden, 1979.
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