Recent Buddhist Studies In Europe And America

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

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* DE JONG Tattvasangraha, Krakow, 1939), and the edition of the Tibetan translation of the same chapter (Melanges chinois et bouddhiques 8, 1946-1947, pp. 106-216). He also published, together with E. H. Johnston, the Sanskrit text of Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani (ibid. 9, 1948-1950, pp. 99-152). Regamey's publications are listed in Asiatische Studien Etudes asiatiques 35, 2 (1981), pp. 9-17. Published in 1983 were Tadeusz Skorupski's book on the Sarvadurgatiparisodhanatantra (Delhi), K. R. Norman's Pali Literature, including the Canonical Literature in Prakrit and Sanskrit of all the Hinayana Schools of Buddhism (A History of Indian Literature, Volume VII, Fasc. 2, Wiesbaden) and Peter Pfandt's Mahayana Texts translated into Western Languages: A Bibliographical Guide (Koln). K. R. Norman also published an article on 'Asokan Sila-thambha-s and Dharmathambha-s' (Acarya-vandana. D. R. Bhandarkar Birth Centenary Volume, University of Calcutta, 1982 (?)) and another article entitled 'The pratyekabuddha in Buddhism and Jainism' (Buddhist Studies Ancient and Modern, London, 1983, pp. 92-106). In October and November 1983 the above paper of mine was read at various Japanese universities. As several publications by Japanese scholars, especially in Western languages, were mentioned, I was asked why other publications by Japanese scholars were not referred to. It was my intention to draw attention to the work done by scholars in Europe and America. Very few publications by Indian and Japanese scholars were mentioned, and these only in so far as they dealt with some specific areas such as facsimile editions of Buddhist Sanskrit texts, editions of Sanskrit Buddhist texts and bibliography. Detailed bibliographies of Japanese publications on Indian Buddhism were prepared on the occasion of the CISHAAN conference by Ejima Yasunori and Katsura Shoryu, and it is to be hoped that these will soon be published. In my paper I mentioned Tripathi's forthcoming edition of the Ekottaragama fragments from Gilgit. In this connection mention must be made also of the edition published by Okubo Yusen ('The Ekottara-agama fragments of the Gilgit manuscript-Romanized Text', Bukkyogaku Semina 35, 1982, pp. 120-91). 106