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
Another field of study in which important work has been done in recent years is anthropology. Scholars working in this field have directed their attention to the Tibetans in India and Nepal and to the Theravāda countries. It must be left to a specialist in this field to make a survey of the results obtained by anthropologists.
I hope that I have been able to give some idea of the work which has been done in the last ten years by Western scholars in the field of Buddhist studies and, above all, with regard to the study of Buddhist texts in India. It is of course impossible for one man to give an adequate survey of the work which is being done in so many branches of Buddhist studies, and I can only hope that others will supplement the bibliographical information which it has been my pleasure to present to you in this lecture.
ADDENDUM
Since the writing of this paper several further books and articles have come to my notice. I should also add that Arnold Kunst (1903–1981) and Constantin Regamey (1907–1982) died in 1981 and 1982, respectively. Kunst's main work was the translation of the anumāna chapter of the Tattvasamgraha (Probleme der buddhistischen Logik in der Darstellung des
as Saundarānasa in der buddhiskärin
Unicorn, Origin and Migrations of an Indian Legend', German Scholars on India, vol. I (Varanasi, 1973), pp. 294-307; 'Ašvaghoşas Saundarānanda in Ajanta', WZKS 19 (1975), pp. 85-102; 'Die Erzählung von Sutasoma und Saudāsa in der buddhistischen Kunst', Altorientalische Forschungen 2 (Berlin, 1975), pp. 93–117; 'Kalyāņakārin's adventures. The identification of an Ajanta painting', Artibus Asiae 38 (1976), pp. 528: 'Der König mit dem Schwert. Die Identifizierung einer Ajantamalerei', WZKS 21 (1977); pp. 57–70; "Zwei Malereien in Höhle 1 von Ajanta', ZDMG. Supplement III, 2. XIX. Deutscher Orientalistentag (Wiesbaden, 1977), pp. 912-917; 'Die JātakaDarstellungen in Höhle 16 von Ajanta', Beiträge zur Indienforschung. Ernst Waldschmidt zum 80. Geburtstag gewidmet (Berlin, 1977), pp. 451-478; 'Zwei Antiden-Geschichten im alten Indien', ZDMG 127 (1977), pp. 369-397; 'Die älteste Malerei des Buddhalebens', Studien zum Jainismus und Buddhismus: Gedenkschrift für Ludwig Alsdorf (Wiesbaden, 1981), pp. 181-198; 'The Mahābodhi-jātaka in Bharhut', Ludwik Sternbach Felicitation Volume (Lucknow, 1981), pp. 745-749; 'Erzählung und Bild. Die Darstellungsformen von Handlungsabläufen in der europäischen und indischen Kunst', Beiträge zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Archäologie 3 (
München, 1981), pp. 87213: 'Asoka or Māra? On the interpretation of some Sāñci reliefs', Indological and Buddhist Studies (Canberra, 1982), pp. 441-455.
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