[INDOLOGY] New Publication

[petra kieffer-pülz]

Dear friends and colleagues,

I have the pleasure to announce the following publication:

Petra Kieffer-Pülz

Verlorene Gaṇṭhipadas zum buddhistischen Ordensrecht
Untersuchungen zu den in der Vajirabuddhiṭīkā zitierten Kommentaren Dhammasiris und Vajirabuddhis

Teil 1: Disziplinarrecht: Pārājika bis Saṅghādisesa (Z 1-132)
Teil 2: Disziplinarrecht: Aniyata bis Pācittiya der Nonnen (Z 133-278)
Teil 3: Verfahrensrecht und Vermischtes: Mahāvagga bis Parivāra (Z 279-469)

Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013 (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz. Veröffentlichungen 
der Indologischen Kommission, Bd. 1), XLIX, 2708 p.

The Buddhist Pāli canon of the Theravādin is explained in a series of Pāli commentaries, the aṭṭhakathās, dating from the 5th/6th centuries onwards. 
These in turn are explained in a number of subcommentaries, the ṭīkās, from around the tenth/twelfth centuries onwards. The gaṇṭhipadas, "commentaries on 
The Buddhist Pāli canon of the Theravādin is explained in a series of Pāli commentaries, the aṭṭhakathās, dating from the 5th/6th centuries onwards. 
knotty words", written in Pāli or in vernaculars, form a separate class of commentaries most of which originated in the period between these two layers 
of commentarial literature. Apparently they gradually developed from plain glossaries to elaborate compendia covering multiple aspects of the 
commented text. Only few gaṇṭhipadas are actually preserved to us. 

This volume of the series  "Veröffentlichungen der Indologischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz"  presents 
the first detailed study on commentaries of the Pāli gaṇṭhipada class. The focus is on two lost gaṇṭhipadas on the Vinaya, viz., Dhammasiri's gaṇṭhipada 
(ca. 5th/6th century AD, Sri Lanka) and Vajirabuddhi's anugaṇṭhipada (ca. 6th-10th centuries AD, South India?). They survived in the form of quotations 
embedded in the earliest sub-commentary on the Vinaya, the Vajirabuddhiṭīkā.

The study is divided into three sections: (A) the introduction presenting data relevant to literary and  cultural history, and annotations concerning the Vinaya 
exegesis; (B) the catalogue of 346 quotations from Dhammasiri's gaṇṭhipada and 281 quotations from Vajirabuddhi's Anugaṇṭhipada, quoted in context, 
translated and analysed with constant reference to other Pāli legal texts and commentaries; and (C) containing a Pāli-German glossary of important terms, 
a list of all sources of the Vajirabuddhiṭīkā, an index locorum, an index of words, and a general index.


http://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title_4313.ahtml


Kind regards,
Petra Kieffer-Pülz

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Dr. Petra Kieffer-Pülz
Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz
Projekt: "Wissenschaftliches Pali"

privat address:
Wilhelm-Külz-Str. 2
99423 Weimar
Germany

email:
kiepue at t-online.de (priv.)





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