[INDOLOGY] Buddhasrijnana's Abhisamaya commentary

Thu May 11 07:11:17 UTC 2017

Dear Birgit,

Thank you for the link! Time to resurrect my feeble and fading Hindi (I
hope my teacher Mária Négyesi is not on this list, heaven knows she tried!).

I am also interested to find out about Rāhuljī's last years, especially
those leading up to his 1957 book on the dohās. Was he already suffering
from memory losses at this point?

Yours,
Peter

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Birgit Kellner <birgit.kellner at oeaw.ac.at>
wrote:

> 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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