Reviews Of Diffeent Books

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

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devotees of the Lord." I believe that the meaning is as follows: "It cannot be said that by avoiding certain types of relationships with them in accordance with their caste and the like, we show disrespect, etc. to them, even though they are devotees of the Lord."
A few misprints have to be corrected. Volume two, p. 13 (phrase 126) read kalau for kalu; p. 75 (phrase 105) read vyāsādisamākhyām for vyādismākhyām; p. 100 (phrase 71) read vaikhānasasūtre for vikhanassūtre.
NOTE
Išādivimśottarasatopanişadah, ed. by Nārāyana Rāma Acārya (Bombay, NSP 1948), p. 546, 1.5.
Australian National University
J. W. DE JONG
Mark Tatz, Asarga's Chapter of Ethics With the Commentary of Tsong-KhaPa, The Basic Path to Awakening, The Complete Bodhisattva (Studies in Asian Thought and Religion, Volume 4). Lewiston/Queenston, The Edwin Mellen Press, 1986. VIII, 358 pp. $49.95.
Mark Tatz's book comprises translations of the silapatala from Asanga's Bodhisattvabhūmi and of Tson-kha-pa's commentary: Byar-chub sems-dpa'i tshul-khrims-kyi rnam-bśad, byar-chub gzun-lam. In his introduction Tatz gives a good explanation of bodhisattva ethics and of the literature on the subject in India and Tibet. Tson-kha-pa's work is very instructive because it is based upon a detailed knowledge of the Indian literature on bodhisattva ethics. Tatz remarks: 'Tsong-kha-pa bases his comments upon the Indian commentaries to the Chapter on Ethics and the TV (Candragomin's Twenty Verses of the Bodhisattva Vow). That of Jinaputra/Samudramegha is most often utilized for explanation of terms. Sāntaraksita, Atiśa, Ratnākaraśānti, Sāntideva and others are introduced in the course of discussing complicated questions' (p. 35). Tison-kha-pa's work occupies 98 folios in the Peking edition and 109 folios in the Tashilhunpo edition. Tatz's translation (pp. 91-263) is followed by no less than 592 notes. The appendices comprise a translation of a fragment of a commentary to Candragomin's Twenty Verses from Tun-huang, a translation of a passage on seminal transgression from the Akasagarbha-sūtra and a translation of two sections from the commentary by Jinaputra/Samudramegha: on alcohol and on permission to murder. A detailed index (pp. 343–358) concludes the work.
Indo-Iranian Journal 32: 1989.