[INDOLOGY] Buddhasrijnana's Abhisamaya commentary

[Birgit Kellner]

Dear Peter, (cc: INDOLOGY)

good to hear Kazuo came to the rescue once again (as he so often does on 
such matters)! I guess, then, that RS was lucky with these photographs, 
or his self-assessment as a poor photographer in MJY is overstated.

The second volume (1950) of Meri Jivan Yatra with the accounts on the 
Tibetan journeys (1929-30, 1934, 1936 and 1938) can be found as PDF in 
the DLI: http://www.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/428822.

Indeed, MJY makes for worthwhile reading, for many reasons!

Best, Birgit




Am 2017-05-10 um 14:47 schrieb Péter-Dániel Szántó:
> Dear Birgit,
>
> Thank you for your valuable notes. Perhaps I should've written a
> follow-up email to this in good time.
>
> My friend Kazuo Kano came to the rescue -- and this is certainly not the
> first time! Apparently the plates were passed on to Wogihara, and later
> ended up with Kendai Eno'u (if this is the right spelling), who
> published it in 1973. Nagao wrote a review in 1976.
>
> The text is indeed called Prajñāpradīpāvalī (actually, this is only a
> part, the 8th chapter), just like its Tibetan translation, which is
> attributed to Jñānapāda, but these are two very different texts!
>
> At first I thought that this must be the 'other' Buddhaśrījñāna, who
> worked among the Gnubs, but then I started seeing quite exact parallels
> in Abhayākaragupta's Munimatālaṃkāra (and therefore in
> Daśabalaśrīmitra's Saṃskṛtāsaṃskṛtaviniścaya). I'm still not quite sure,
> but chances are that this could be (a bit of) one of Jñānapāda's
> juvenilia, composed after his study with Haribhadra (whose influence is
> undeniable), when he was at Nālandā, before his (first) trip to the Konkan.
>
> Is Merī jīvan yātrā online by any chance? It would be wonderful to read
> it, not only for 'our' interests, but also because it's considered, if I
> understand correctly, the foundation of the Hindi travelogue.
>
> Many thanks once again.
>
> Yours,
> Peter
>
> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Birgit Kellner via INDOLOGY
> <indology at list.indology.info <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> wrote:
>
>     In his Hindi autobiography "Meri Jivan Yatra", Sankrtyayan writes
>     that he didn't have a camera suitable for photographing manuscripts
>     at the time (the journey was undertaken in 1934), only a Rolleiflex
>     (which at the most allowed him to take pictures of statues in
>     monasteries).
>
>     Moreover, he also had no facilities to develop the photographs in
>     situ and therefore could not check whether they were ok -- and knew
>     very little on photography at the time.
>
>     He therefore took the trouble to transcribe everything that was
>     important to him (like the Vibhūticandra ms of Prajñākaragupta's
>     Pramāṇavārttikālaṅkāra, or an ms of Dharmakīrti's Vādanyāya).
>
>     If, therefore, there is no record that he took photographs of the
>     Abhisamayālaṅkāra comm. on one of his later journeys (1936 or 1938),
>     I'd say it's very unlikely that there are any (usable) photographs
>     preserved in Patna.
>
>     With best regards,
>
>     Birgit
>
>             On May 5, 2017, at 8:39 AM, Péter-Dániel Szántó via INDOLOGY
>             <indology at list.indology.info
>             <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>
>             <mailto:indology at list.indology.info
>             <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>>> wrote:
>
>             Rahul Sankrtyayan in his 1935 report wrote that he had seen and
>             photographed a 27-folio ms. of Buddhaśrījñāna's
>             Abhisamayālaṃkāra
>             commentary in Lhasa.
>
>             Does anyone know what became of these photos? They do not
>             seem to be
>             kept in the Göttingen collection (I checked Bandurski's
>             catalogue
>             relatively thoroughly).
>
>
>
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