[INDOLOGY] Buddhasrijnana's Abhisamaya commentary

Jonathan Silk kauzeya at gmail.com
Wed May 10 16:21:14 UTC 2017


Maybe this is what you refer to?
Nagao's review must be this:

Tateshiro Ennō 健代渕応, *Abhisamayālaṁkāraśāstraṭīkā no Kenkyū*
Abhisamayālaṁkāraśāstra.ṭīkāの研究 (Ōsaka: Shitennōji shiin Seikōin
Kiyomizudera 四天王寺支院清光院清水寺, 1973). *Suzuki Gakujutsu Zaidan Kenkyū Nenpō*
鈴木学術財団年報  12/13 (1975/ 1976): 116–118.

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 2:47 PM, Péter-Dániel Szántó via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> 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> 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>>
>>>> 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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