Untersuchungen zur buddhistischen Literatur.

• Author: Rocher, Ludo
• Position: Brief Reviews of Books

Untersuchungen zur buddhistischen Literatur. By FRANK BANOURSKI, BHIKKU PASADIKA, MICHAEL SCHMIDT, AND BANGWEI WANG. Sanskrit Worterbuch der Buddhistischen Texte aus den Turfan-Funden, supp. 5. Gottingen: VANDENHOECK & RUPRECHT, 1994. Pp. 203. DM75.

The Beihefte to the Sanskrit-Worterbuch der buddhistischen Texte aus den Turfan-Funden (SWTF, started by Ernst Waldschmidt and now edited by Heinz Bechert) have followed each other in rapid succession (since 1989, and also subsequent to the volume under review).

The present volume, introduced by Heinz Bechert, contains four separate studies. Frank Bandurski (pp. 9-126) surveys in detail the seventy-five copies, which Gustav Roth obtained for the University of Gottingen, of part of the manuscripts that Rahula Sankrtyayana (1893-1963) found and photographed in Tibet (1934-38), and which are now preserved at the Bihar Research Society in Patna. (Cf., meanwhile, "Nachtrage zur 'Ubersicht uber die Gottinger Sammulungen der von Rahula Sankrtyayana in Tibet aufgefundenen buddhistischen SanskritTexte,'" by Sven Bretfeld, Beiheft 8 [1997], 41-46.) Bhikku Pasadika (pp. 127-54) collects new Abhidharma materials for the SWTF, from three...