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Item Code: IDC902
Author: Edward Conze
Publisher: MUNSHIRAM MANOHARLAL PUBLISHERS PVT LTD
Language: English
Edition: 2017
ISBN: 9788121509923
Pages: 146
Cover: Hardcover
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Other Details 6.6" x 10.2"
Book Description
Preface

The literature on Prajnaparamita, vast, deep and vital to an understanding of the Mahayana, has so far been somewhat neglected by European scholars. With the aim of facilitating its study, I have in this book set out a certain amount of information about it. This is a handbook which records for the use of scholars the very limited knowledge we have acquired during the last century. I am well aware that a compilation of this kind lends itself to innumerable sins of commission and omission. The critical reader will discover many of them, and I must console myself with having given him something to build on. After completing my typescript, which has slowly matured over twenty years, I find that the gaps in my treatment stand out more clearly than its contours. The Bibliography; though comprehensive, is by no means complete. I have not listed all the translations, articles and books which have appeared in Japanese, nor the numerous Chinese commentaries which are not included in the Taisho Issaikyo. As for the Mongol, I have ignored the Tanjur, which seems to exist only in Ulan Bator. The Manchu translations of the Kanjur, which were done between 1730 and 1790, are likewise inaccessible in Europe. Modern translations into Dutch, Italian, etc., are noted only sporadically. The treatment of the commentatorial literature is quite unsatisfactory, and generally confined to listing the bare bibliographical data. The material is so vast that no one person can be expected to do everything. Others will, I hope, take up the thread where I have left it.

Preface To The Second Edition

By 1972 the first edition of this work had been sold out. Mouton & Co., the publishers, had by then largely withdrawn from their Indological publications and returned the copyright to the author. Over the years a number of minor inaccuracies have been detected in the original text, and they have been corrected for this reprint. In addition much has been published on Prajnaparamita since 1960, and I have, as far as I could, inserted these later publications in their appropriate places in the Bibliography. In fact it appears that the Prajnaparamita writings have in recent years been explored more thoroughly than most other branches of Buddhist literature.

The Reiyukai has done wonderful work in providing us with precious materials for the study of the Saddharmapundarika, and all Buddhist scholars will now be grateful to them for having brought this monograph on the Prajnaparamita back into circulation. In 1963, when I was a professor in Madison, Wisc., I tried to make up for my neglect of the Japanese contributions to this subject by supervising and directing Hanayama Shoyu's survey on what had been done in Japan up to that date (see p. 91). In the last fourteen years much more has been written in that country and I can only apologize for its omission. The simple truth is that I do not know the language and am now too old to learn it.

Contents

Prefacev
Preface to the Second Editionvi
Chronological Survey
A.The developments in India1
1The basic text1
2The expansion to the large Sutra10
3a. The short Sutras11
3b. Versified Summaries12
4Tantric influences13
5The Pala period16
B.The developments outside India19
1China19
2Nepal, Siam, Cambodia23
3Tibet24
4Japan27
5Europe28
Annotated Bibliography
A.Ordinary Prajfiaparamita Sutras31
AA. The large Sutra (no. 1-5)31
AB. Abbreviations (no. 6-11)56
B.Special Texts (no. 12-16)75
C.Tantric Texts (no. 17-40)79
Commentarial Literature
1Nagarjuna93
2Yogacarins95
3Abhisamayalankara101
4Bibliography of Sub-commentaries to AA112
Indices
1Alphabetical list of Sanskrit titles121
2Alphabetical list of Indian commentators121
3Alphabetical list of Tibetan commentators122
4Alphabetical list of Chinese commentators123
5Abbreviations124
List of Edward Conze's Publications on The Prajnaparamita
Literature127
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