Dear friends and colleagues,
I have the pleasure to announce the following publication:
Petra Kieffer-Pülz
Verlorene Gaṇṭhipadas zum buddhistischen Ordensrecht
Untersuchungen zu den in der Vajirabuddhiṭīkā zitierten Kommentaren Dhammasiris und Vajirabuddhis
Teil 1: Disziplinarrecht: Pārājika bis Saṅghādisesa (Z 1-132)
Teil 2: Disziplinarrecht: Aniyata bis Pācittiya der Nonnen (Z 133-278)
Teil 3: Verfahrensrecht und Vermischtes: Mahāvagga bis Parivāra (Z 279-469)
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013 (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz. Veröffentlichungen
der Indologischen Kommission, Bd. 1), XLIX, 2708 p.
The
Buddhist Pāli canon of the Theravādin is explained in a series of
Pāli commentaries, the aṭṭhakathās, dating from the 5th/6th
centuries onwards.
These
in turn are explained in a number of subcommentaries, the ṭīkās,
from around the tenth/twelfth centuries onwards. The gaṇṭhipadas,
"commentaries on
The
Buddhist Pāli canon of the Theravādin is explained in a series of
Pāli commentaries, the aṭṭhakathās, dating from the 5th/6th
centuries onwards.
knotty
words", written in Pāli or in vernaculars, form a separate
class of commentaries most of which originated in the period between
these two layers
of
commentarial literature. Apparently they gradually developed from
plain glossaries to elaborate compendia covering multiple aspects of
the
commented
text. Only few gaṇṭhipadas are actually preserved to us.
This
volume of the series "Veröffentlichungen der
Indologischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der
Literatur, Mainz" presents
the
first detailed study on commentaries of the Pāli gaṇṭhipada class. The focus is on two lost gaṇṭhipadas on the Vinaya, viz.,
Dhammasiri's gaṇṭhipada
(ca. 5th/6th century AD, Sri Lanka) and Vajirabuddhi's anugaṇṭhipada
(ca. 6th-10th centuries AD, South India?). They survived in the form
of quotations
embedded in the earliest sub-commentary on the
Vinaya, the Vajirabuddhiṭīkā.
The study is divided into
three sections: (A) the introduction presenting data relevant to
literary and cultural history, and annotations
concerning the
Vinaya
exegesis; (B) the catalogue of 346 quotations from
Dhammasiri's gaṇṭhipada and 281 quotations from Vajirabuddhi's
Anugaṇṭhipada, quoted
in context,
translated and analysed with constant reference to other
Pāli legal texts and commentaries; and (C) containing a Pāli-German glossary
of important terms,
a list of all sources of the Vajirabuddhiṭīkā,
an index locorum, an index of words, and a general index.
Kind regards,
Petra Kieffer-Pülz
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Dr. Petra Kieffer-Pülz
Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz
Projekt: "Wissenschaftliches Pali"
privat address:
Wilhelm-Külz-Str. 2
99423 Weimar
Germany
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