[INDOLOGY] new publication

[David and Nancy Reigle]

Amazing in its synchronicity, Ferenc Ruzsa has also prepared a critical
edition of Vasubandhu's *Viṁśikā*, published in 2016, and has now uploaded
it to Academia.edu:

https://www.academia.edu/24686118/Vasubandhu_Vi%E1%B9%81%C5%9Bik%C4%81j%C3%A1nak_kritikai_kiad%C3%A1sa?campaign=upload_email

Best regards,

David Reigle
Colorado, U.S.A.

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 6:18 AM, Jonathan Silk <kauzeya at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Friends,
>
> Self-serving self promotion warning!
>
> Harvard Oriental Series 81Materials Toward the Study of Vasubandhu’s
> *Viṁśikā* (I)Sanskrit and Tibetan Critical Editions of the Verses and
> Autocommentary; An English Translation and Annotations
>
> HARDCOVER
>
> $30.00 • £22.95 • €27.00
>
> ISBN 9780674970670
>
>
> The blurb: The “Twenty Verses on Manifestation-Only” of the Indian
> Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu (c. 350–430?), his *Viṁśíkā*, is one of
> the most important treatises of the Yogācāra school. Accompanied by the
> author’s own commentary, the text lays out a vision of a “Buddhist
> Idealism” in which even one’s experience of the sufferings of hell is
> revealed to be nothing other than the results of working out one’s karma.
> Later scholars commented on the work a number of times, in its original
> Sanskrit, in Tibetan translation, and in three Chinese versions.
>
> This book presents an edition and translation of the Sanskrit text of the
> core verses, alongside the original author’s commentary, based directly on
> the manuscript evidence. This is accompanied by an edition of the canonical
> translations of these texts found in the Tibetan Tanjurs, as well as a
> “draft translation” of the verses in Tibetan, found in a manuscript from
> Dunhuang. This publication therefore provides the most reliable and
> comprehensive philological accounting to date for this fundamental work.
>
>
> The website (http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674970670)
> says August, but it's published now.
>
>
> very best, Jonathan
>
> --
> J. Silk
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>
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