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

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because, in general, he understands the texts correctly. His work would have gained much by having been carefully vetted before publication. In any case, we must be glad that Tatz has made these two texts more accessible by his translation. The chapter on ethics from the Bodhisattvabhūmi does not seem to have attracted much attention from Western scholars. Several prominent Japanese scholars such as Hirakawa Akira, Aramaki Noritoshi and Hadano Hakuyū have published studies of this chapter. Tatz does not mention them although he lists in his bibliography an article in Japanese by Ueyama Daishun. They are all enumerated in the excellent bibliography which Hakamaya Noriaki has added to the photomechanic reprint of the Derge edition of volume seven of the Sems-tsam section of the bsTan-'gyur (Tokyo, 1980).
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NOTES
I'Le chapitre de la Bodhisattvabhūmi sur la Perfection du Dhyana', Rocznik Orientalistyczny 21 (1957), 109-128 Choix d'études bouddhiques (Leiden, 1973), pp. 300-319.
2 Bonkantaishō Bosatsujisakuin (Tokyo, 1961), pp. 202-203.
3 Ui's translation (p. 170) is wrong because he follows Wogihara's text.
4 Hsüan-tsang's translation of the chapter on ethics is to be found in Vol. 30 of the Taishō edition, pp. 510-523 and not pp. 516-521 as indicated by Tatz (p. 329).
5 Cf. Akira Hirakawa, etc., Index to the Abhidharmakośabhāṣya, Part one (Tokyo, 1973), P. 238.
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p. 333 his name is spelled Hadano, Kakukyō by Tatz.
Indo-Iranian Journal 32: 1989.
J. W. DE JONG
David Snellgrove, Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. Indian Buddhists & Their Tibetan Successors. London, Serindia Publications, 1987. xxiv, 640 pp., 88 pl. £30.00.
David Snellgrove retired in 1982 from his chair of Tibetan studies in the university of London. The present publication shows that he has used his retirement to write a comprehensive work on Buddhism in India, Central Asia, Nepal and Tibet up to about 1300 A.D. Snellgrove's book comprises five chapters of unequal length: I. Origins in India (pp. 1-43); II. Later developments in India (pp. 44-116); III. Tantric Buddhism (pp. 117-303); IV. Buddhist communities in India and beyond (pp. 305-380); V. The conversion of Tibet (pp. 381-526).
In his preface Snellgrove explains his reasons for dealing only briefly with the Buddhist origins in India: "For the first chapter on Buddhist origins