[INDOLOGY] Buddhasrijnana's Abhisamaya commentary

[Péter-Dániel Szántó]

Dear Jonathan,

Yes, thank you. Elsewhere I found that the first name is to be transcribed
as Kendai, not Tateshiro. Unfortunately I cannot find this link right now.

Yours,
Peter


On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 5:21 PM, Jonathan Silk <kauzeya at gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe this is what you refer to?
> Nagao's review must be this:
>
> Tateshiro Ennō 健代渕応, *Abhisamayālaṁkāraśāstraṭīkā no Kenkyū*
> Abhisamayālaṁkāraśāstra.ṭīkāの研究 (Ōsaka: Shitennōji shiin Seikōin
> Kiyomizudera 四天王寺支院清光院清水寺, 1973). *Suzuki Gakujutsu Zaidan Kenkyū Nenpō*
> 鈴木学術財団年報  12/13 (1975/ 1976): 116–118.
>
> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 2:47 PM, Péter-Dániel Szántó via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> 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> 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>>
>>>>> 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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