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150 REVIEWS 2 For bibliographical information see Wolfgang Bauer, 'Zwei mehrsprachige Gedichtinschriften Kaiser Ch'ien-lungs aus dem "Gelben Tempel" zu Peking', Studia Sino-Altaica (Wiesbaden, 1961), p. 21, n. 3. Add H. Franke, 'Die dreisprachige Grundungsinschrift des 'Gelben Tempels' zu Peking aus den Jahre 1651', ZDMG 114 (1964), pp. 391-412. 3 For re'u mig see Chos-kyi Grags-pa's Tibetan Dictionary (Peking, 1957), p. 838a. 4 For skyo sans see H. A. Jaschke, A Tibetan-English Dictionary (London, 1881), p. 31: skyo-sans "recreation"; skyo-sans la 'gro-ba "to take a walk or a ride, to promenade". 5 F. D. Lessing, Yung-ho-kung. Volume one (Stockholm, 1942), pp. 9-12 and 58-61. 6 Cf. von Franz, p. 18, and Bauer op. cit., p. 22, n. 7. We have been unable to consult Ludwig's book. J. Terjek (ed.), Collected Works of Alexander Csoma de Koros, Budapest, Akademiai Kiado, 1984. Tibetan-English Dictionary, LX, 351 pp. $34.00; Sanskrit-Tibetan-English Vocabulary, being an edition and translation of the Mahavyutpatti. XXXII, XXXVII, 390 pp. $38.00; Grammar of the Tibetan Language. XXXII, XVI, 204, 40 pp. $24.00; Tibetan Studies, being a reprint of the articles contributed to the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and Asiatic Researches. XXXII, IX, 459 pp. $44.00. The four volumes together $120.00. On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Csoma de.. Koros (1784-1842), the Hungarian Academy of Sciences has published his collected works in four volumes. Each volume contains a foreword by Janos. Szentagothai and a short biography of Csoma de Koros by Jozsef Terjek. Csoma began his Tibetan studies in 1823. In 1831 he arrived in Calcutta in order to prepare his grammar and dictionary for publication. Both works were published in 1834 in 500 copies. His edition and translation of the Mahavyutpatti, which work he mentioned already in a letter of 25 May 1825 addressed to Captain Kennedy, appeared in three fascicles in 1910, 1916 and 1944: From 1832 on Csoma published many articles in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. They were collected and edited by E. Denison Ross in a special issue of the Journal published in 1912. In his foreword Janos Szentagothai gives the date 1909. Jozsef Terjek writes in his preface that this issue was published in 1911.. In order to prevent confusion in future bibliographies it is perhaps useful to reproduce the information given on the cover of this issue: Journal & Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. VII, Extra No. 1911. Alexander Csoma de Koros Memorial Volume, Calcutta: Printed at the Baptist Mission Press, and Published by the Asiatic Society, 1, Park Street, Calcutta. 1912. Issued 23rd April, 1912. Tibetan Studies reproduces both the text of this issue and the articles published in 1836 and 1839 in volume XX of Asiatic Researches. In Indo-Iranian Journal 29 (1986)