Dear list members,

We are delighted to announce the publication of the first complete English translation of Jñānaśrimitra’s Vṛttamālāstuti, ‘A Garland of Metres: In Praise of Mañjuśrī’. This book is a joint publication by Deshana: An Institute of Buddhist and Allied Studies, Pune and Aditya Prakashan, New Delhi.

For those of you who are not familiar with the text, the Vṛttamālāstuti is a 154-verse eulogy to the Bodhisattva Mañjuśrī and is simultaneously, also a treatise on prosody with150 out of the 154 verses composed in a different metre. Jñānaśrimitra is well-known as a philosopher of the Yogācāra school of Buddhism, and this is his only known non-philosophical work. Our translation is based on the 2016 edition of the text and its commentary by Michael Hahn, Shrikant Bahulkar, Lata Deokar and Mahesh Deokar. The translation will appeal to those interested in Sanskrit literature and prosody as well as Buddhist philosophy and iconography.

The book will be available to purchase on Amazon in the next few weeks. In the meantime, it can also be purchased directly from the publishers by writing to them at bibliaimpex@gmail.com.

Best wishes,

Shrikant Bahulkar[     ]     &    Maitreyi Tanase [Doctoral Student, University of Oxford]

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