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77 REVIEWS Beitrage zur Geistesgeschichte Indiens. Festschrift fur Erich Frauwallner. Aus Anlass seines 70. Geburtstages herausgegeben von G. Oberhammer (= Wiener Zeitschrift fur die Kunde Sud- und Ostasiens, Band XI-XIII, 1968/1969). Wien, 1968. 426 pp. The Beitrage zur Geistesgeschichte Indiens published on the occasion of the seventieth birthday of Erich Frauwallner contain thirty-three articles. Most of them deal with Indian philosophy. This gives a unity to this volume which distinguishes it from the usual type of Festschrift. A bibliography of the writings of Erich Frauwallner lists his publications but not his reviews except for three. Professor Frauwallner has made important contributions to the history of Indian philosophy. Most of his early articles, published between 1930 and 1937, deal with the works of Dignaga, Dharmakirti and Dharmottara. The study of Buddhist philosophical works, preserved in Tibetan translation, has proved to be of the greatest importance not only for the history of Buddhist philosophy but also for that of other Indian philosophical schools. During the last twenty years Professor Frauwallner has extended his interest also to earlier periods of the history of Buddhist thought, and his publications testify to the fact that he has extensively studied Chinese translations of Indian Buddhist texts. At the same time he has not neglected the study of the six darsanas and of later philosophical schools such as the Navyanyaya. His treatment of difficult technical philosophical problems is always lucid and his translations of very complicated texts are so clear and understandable that one tends to underestimate the problems which the translator had to solve. With regard to the history of the Indian philosophical systems, Professor Frauwallner has advanced from time to time more speculative theories which will have to be carefully examined by other scholars. Sometimes his critical sense seems to have been sadly lacking. The bibliography lists under the year 1941 an article, entitled "Die Bedeutung der indischen Philosophie". It contains the text of a paper, read in the autumn of 1942 in Berlin on the occasion of an "Orientalistentagung". The volume, containing the text of the papers, was published in 1944 by H. H. Schaeder. In his paper Professor Frauwallner repeated to a great extent the arguments which he had already advanced in a paper read in Bonn on the 30th August 1938 ("Der arische Anteil an der indischen Philosophie", WZKM, 46, 1939, pp. 267-291). Professor Frauwallner refers to the