Dear David, 

The quote is from Chapter 9 (Mīmāṃsa), verse 19 of the Madhyamakahṛdaya. The list is included within his commentary on the line:

sarvasyāgamatāsiddheḥ kiṃ tattvamiti dhāryatām

kun gyi lung yang ‘grub ‘gyur bas

nges par gang gi de nyid bzung

To see the list of non-Buddhist schools in Tibetan, see the Derge edition:

Tarkajvālā, 9; Toh. 3856 Tengyur, dbu ma, dza, 278a5.    

Of the 121 schools (out of the 363) that Bhāvaviveka lists, there were a few that were not difficult to trace to a Sanskrit original. For example, sang rgyas pa = Bauddha; tsho ba pa = Jīvaka; khyab ‘jug pa = Vaiṣṇava. However the majority are less obvious, such as "bcings nas ‘dug pa" - Those who remain bound(?).   

If a list of all 121 schools translated roughly from Tibetan to English would be helpful, I can supply that as well. 

I appreciate any leads to references of these schools elsewhere, hopefully in Sanskrit. Or, if another scholar has already done the work of retro-translation, please inform me.

Thank you,

 

Anna Johnson

PhD Candidate

Asian Languages and Cultures

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

On Oct 31, 2015, at 9:25 AM, Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh@umich.edu> wrote:

Anna,

     Can you respond to this query from David and Nancy?  Best,

Madhav Deshpande

On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 8:20 AM, David and Nancy Reigle <dnreigle@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Madhav,

Can you give us the reference to the chapter and verse in Bhāviveka's Madhyamakahṛdaya on which his Tarkajvālā commentary contains this list? Thanks. It will be helpful to see these names in order to try to trace them elsewhere.

Best regards,

David Reigle

Colorado, U.S.A.

On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 4:53 AM, Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh@umich.edu> wrote:

Dear Colleagues,

     A student of mine, Ann Johnson, is reading Bhāvaviveka's Tarkajvālā, in Tibetan, and found a reference to a list of 360 non-Buddhist schools.  She has listed more than 100 of these names in English translation from Tibetan.  I would like to know if there is anywhere in Buddhist literature, a Sanskrit list of these or similar non-Buddhist schools.  Since the Tarkajvālā is not available in its Sanskrit original, figuring out the original Sanskrit names of these schools from their Tibetan translations is a challenging task.  Any help would be appreciated.

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Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor of Sanskrit and Linguistics
Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
202 South Thayer Street, Suite 6111
The University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608, USA

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Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor of Sanskrit and Linguistics
Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
202 South Thayer Street, Suite 6111
The University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608, USA