[INDOLOGY] Buddhasrijnana's Abhisamaya commentary
Birgit Kellner
birgit.kellner at oeaw.ac.at
Wed May 10 13:41:48 UTC 2017
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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