dBu ma shar gsum gyi ston thun.

• Author: Tatz, Mark
• Position: Review

dBu ma shar gsum gyi ston thun. By PHYA PA CHOS KYI SEN GE. Edited by HELMUT TAUSCHER. Wiener Studien zu Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde, vol. 43. Vienna: ARBEITSKREIS FUR TIBETISHE UND BUDDHISTISCHE STUDIEN, UNIVERSITAT WIEN, 1999. Pp. xxxiii + 146.

All writings of this twelfth-century Madhyamaka philosopher were thought to be lost. A unique handwritten manuscript of this text was acquired by Leonard van der Kuijp, it is not said from where, and a photocopy-reduction provided to Helmut Tauscher. The manuscript consists of some forty-five folios with numerous internal additions and corrections. It is here printed in dbu-can (the original is dbu-can (the original is dbu-med) with footnotes and emendations and a Tibetan translation of the editor's introduction. The work contains a detailed...