Collected Papers on Buddhist Studies

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Item Code: IDC165
Publisher: MOTILAL BANARSIDASS PUBLISHERS PVT. LTD.
Author: PADMANABH S. JAINI
Language: English
Edition: 2001
ISBN: 8120817761
Pages: 574
Cover: Hardcover
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About the Book:

Professor P.S. Jaini is renowned amongst Indological scholars for his unique and enduring contributions to the areas of Buddhist and Jain studies. His reputation in the Buddhist and Jain studies. His reputation in the Buddhist field is based securely on his monumental edition of the important Vaibhasika text the Abhidharmadipa with its Vibhasaprabhavrtti, which was written primarily to refute the Abhidharmakosabhasya of Vasubandhu. He also has critically edited and translated the Pali apocryphal Jatakas, vital evidence for the ways in which the Buddha and his previous lives have been envisaged in Southeast Asia.

In this volume, a companion to the author's Collected Papers on Jaina Studies (Motilal Banarsidass, 2000), twenty-nine of his articles, encompassing some forty years of research on various facets of Buddhism, have been brought together for the first time. They cover a wide range of topics including comparative studies with Jainism, points of controversy within Abhindharma, the Bodhisattva career of Maitreya based on narratives from the Jatakas and Mahayana Sutras, and selections from Buddhist ritual texts.

About the Author:

PADMANABH S. JAINI is Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. Previously he has taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In the area of Buddhist Studies, he is probably best known for his critical edition of the Abhidharmadipa and its Vrtti (1959). This was followed by an edition of Saratama, a commentary on the Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita, and critical editions of Pannasa-Jataka, translated as Apocryphal Birth-Stories (PTS, London, 1983-1985).

Contents

Foreword by Paul Dundas
Preface

SECTION I
INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHIST FAITH
  1. States of Happiness in Buddhist Heterodoxy (1999)
SECTION II
BUDDHIST STUDIES
  1. Buddhist Studies in Recent Times: Some Eminent Buddhist Scholars in India and Europe (1956)
SECTION III
BUDDHISM AND JAINISM
  1. Sramsnas: Their Conflict with Brahmanical Society (1970)
  2. On the Sarvajnatva (Omniscience) of Mahavira and the Buddha (1974)
  3. The Jina as a Tathagata: Amrtacandra's Critique of Buddhist Doctrine (1976)
  4. Samskara-Duhkhata and the Jaina Concept of Suffering (1977)
  5. The Disappearance of Buddhism and the survival of Jainism in India: A Study in Contrast (1980)
  6. Values in Comparative Perspective: Svadharma versus Ahimsa (1987)
  7. On the Ignorance of the Arhat (1992)
SECTION IV
ABHIDHARMA LITERATURE
  1. On the Theory of Two Vasubandhus (1958)
  2. Buddha's Prolongation of Life (1958)
  3. The Vaibhasika Theory of Words and Meanings (1959)
  4. The Sautrantika Theory of Bija (1959)
  5. The Origin and Development of the Viprayukta-samskaras (1959)
  6. Abhidharmadipa (1961)
  7. Prajna and Drsti in the Vaibhasika Abhidharma (1977)
  8. Smrti in the Abhidharma Literature and the Development of Buddhist Accounts of Memory of the Past (1992)
SECTION V
JATAKA AND AVADANA LITERATURE
  1. The Story of Sudhana and Manohara: An Analysis of Texts and the Borobudur Reliefs (1966)
  2. On the Buddha Image (1979)
  3. Some niti Verses of the Lokaneyya-pakarana (1984)
  4. Political and Cultural Data in References to Mathura in the Buddhist Literature (1988)
  5. Padipadanajataka: Gautama's Last Female Incarnation (1989)
  6. The Apocryphal Jatakas of Southeast Asian Buddhism (1990)
SECTION VI
MAHAYANA
  1. The Aloka of Haribhadra and the Saratama of Ratnakarasanti: A Comparative Study of the Two Commentaries of the Astasahasrika (1972)
  2. The Sanskrit Fragments in Vinitadeva's Trimsika-tika (1985)
  3. Stages in the Bodhisattva Career of the Tathagata Maitreya (1988)
SECTION VII
RITUAL TEXTS
  1. Mahadibbamanta: A Paritta Manuscript from Cambodia (1965)
  2. (Introduction to) Vasudhara-Dharani: A Buddhist work in use among the Jainas of Gujarat (1968)
  3. (Introduction to and Translation of) Akaravattarasutta: An 'Apocryphal' Sutta from Thailand (1992)
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