Matsunami Seiren, Saundarananda edition

[Richard MAHONEY]

Dear Birgit,

On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 00:09, Birgit Kellner wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I was wondering whether anybody has access to Matsunami Seiren's 1981 
> edition of Aśvaghoṣa's Saundarananda and could let me know whether it is 
> worthwhile consulting in addition to Johnston.
> 
> This is the bibliographical data:
> 
> 松濤 [Matsunami], 誠廉 [Seiren]: "馬鳴端正なる難陀 {Memyo: Tanseinaru 
> Nanda; *Aśvaghoṣa's Saundarananda}" Tokyo: 山喜房仏書林 [Sankibō 
> Busshorin] (1981).

[snip]

> In any case, I would welcome more information on Matunami's edition, the 
> material on which it is based, and, if it is a substantial improvement 
> over Johnston, how to get access to a copy. It appears that no European 
> library whose catalogue is accessible via the Karlsruhe virtual 
> catalogue (http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/hylib/en/kvk.html) has it ...

For copies held in Japan please see:

 http://tinyurl.com/5qwuwm



Kind regards,

 Richard



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