Re: [INDOLOGY] Yaśomitra

[Dominik Wujastyk]

Thanks to Edeltraud Harzer, who set me on a track that led to Marek
Mejor's *Vasubandhu’s
Abhidharmakośa and the Commentaries Preserved in the **Tanjur*, Stuttgart:
Steiner, 1991.  Pp. 38 ff. are quenching my jñānatṛṣṇā for the moment.

Best,
Dominik

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On Thu, 24 May 2018 at 14:41, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> I have been doing a literature search for biographical information about
> Yaśomitra, author of the *Sphuṭārthā* commentary on Vasubandhu's
> *Abhidharmakoṣabhāṣya* and the *vyākhyā* on Asaṅga's *Abhidharmasamuccaya*.
> I am finding almost no information at all.  I see the date 580 in Potter's
> EIP, but I don't know where he gets it.  I have looked in Poussin's,
> Stcherbatsky, Law's introductions, in SARDS3 (several promising articles,
> but I don't read Japanese :-( ), Panditproject, Google Scholar, etc.  While
> his views and interpretations of the mūla texts get attention, I find no
> discussion about his biographical information.
>
> If you know of any scholarship specifically on Yaśomitra's personal
> background, evidence for his date, place of dwelling, lineage, etc., I
> would be very grateful for the information.  Is he the same Yaśomitra who
> owned the so-called Bower MS, for example?
>
> Best,
> Dominik
>
> --
> Professor Dominik Wujastyk <http://ualberta.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk>
> ,
>
> Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
> ,
>
> Department of History and Classics
> <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
> ,
> University of Alberta, Canada
> .
>
> South Asia at the U of A:
>
> sas.ualberta.ca
> ​​
>
>


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