Recent Buddhist Studies In Europe And America

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

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DE JONG For the study of Buddhist philosophy one must mention the work of Schmithausen on the smrtyupasthānas, on the threefold duḥkhatā and on liberating insight, 156 and Seyfort Ruegg's beautiful study on catuṣkoţi.157 A monograph on Self and Non-Self in Early Buddhism is known to me only by a reference in an article by Tilmann Vetter. 158 The two truths in Buddhism and Vedānta have been studied by several scholars in a volume edited by Mervyn Sprung. 159
How important it is to study again identifications made in the past has been shown by Dieter Schlingloff, who in a series of important articles has published the results of his studies of the wall-paintings of Ajanta and of other Buddhist monuments. 16° His work is based upon a careful study of the monuments and upon a profound knowledge of Buddhist narrative literature.
composition et les étapes de la formation progressive du Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra ancien', BEFEO 66 (1979), pp. 45–103; 'The place of the Buddha Gautama in the Buddhist Religion during the Reign of Asoka', Buddhist Studies in Honour of Walpola Rahula (London, 1980), pp. 1-9; 'Le Buddha et Uruvilvā', Indianisme et Bouddhisme; Mélanges offerts à Mgr Étienne Lamotte (Louvain-la-Neuve, 1980), pp. 1–18; 'Le massacre des Sākya: essai d'interprétation', BEFEO 69 (1981), pp. 45-73; 'Un personnage bien mystérieux: l'épouse du Buddha', Indological and Buddhist Studies (Canberra, 1982), pp. 31-59.
156 'Die vier Konzentrationen der Aufmerksamkeit', ZMR 60 (1976), pp. 241-266; ‘Zur buddhistischen Lehre von der dreifachen Leidhaftigkeit, ZDMG Supplement III.2. XIX. Deutscher Orientalistentag (Wiesbaden, 1977), pp. 918-931; 'Zur Struktur der erlösenden Erfahrung im indischen Buddhismus', Transzendenzerfahrung. Vollzugshorizont des Heils (Wien, 1978), pp. 97-119; 'On some Aspects of Descriptions of Theories of 'Liberating Insight' and 'Enlightenment' in Early Buddhism', Studien zum Jainismus und Buddhismus: Gedenkschrift für Ludwig Alsdorf (Wiesbaden, 1981), pp. 199–250: "Versenkungspraxis und erlösende Erfahrung in der Srāvakabhūmi'. Epiphanie des Heils (Wien, 1982), pp. 59–85.
157 "The uses of the four positions of the catuskoți and the problem of the description of reality in Mahāyāna Buddhism', JIPh 5 (1977), pp. 1-71.
158 J. Pérez-Remón, Self and Non-Self in Early Buddhism. The Hague-Paris-New York, 1980.
159 G. M. C. Sprung (ed.), The Problems of Two Truths in Buddhism and Vedānta. Dordrecht, 1973.
160 'Das Lebensrad in Ajanta', Asiatische Studien 25 (1971), pp. 324-334; Jātakamālā-Darstellungen in Ajanta', WZKS 16 (1972), pp. 55-65; 'Die Erforschung altindischer Wandmalereien', Christina Albertina 13 (1972), pp. 32-38; 'A battlepainting in Ajanta', Indologen-Tagung 1971 (Wiesbaden, 1973), pp. 196-203; 'Prince Sudhana and the kinnari', Indologica Taurinensia 1 (Torino, 1973), pp. 155-167; "The
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