Ratnakūṭa Studies, Volume I

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-69295-4
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 200 mm x 265 mm, Gewicht: 821 g

Reihe: Buddhist Open Philology Project

Indian Mahayana Buddhist traditions produced hundreds of scriptures and treatises, only a small number of which have received serious scholarly attention. The present volume inaugurates the Buddhist Open Philology Project (BOPP) publication series, which aims to produce state-of-the-art critical editions, translations, and studies of individual works, thereby seeking to advance the comprehensive study of Buddhism’s vast literary tradition.

This volume collects four studies on the composition and impact of the collection of scriptures called the Maharatnakuta (“Great Heap of Jewels”), including critical editions and translations of two scriptures.
Contributors are: Jonathan A. Silk, †Gadjin M. Nagao, and Michael Radich.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Felbur, Rafal

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Introduction

Jonathan A. Silk

Volume Introduction

Rafal Felbur / Editor

1 The History of the *Kasypapaparivarta in Chinese Translations and Its Connection with the Maharatnaku?a (Da Baoji jing ????) Collection

Jonathan A. Silk and †Gadjin M. Nagao

1 Introduction

2 The Versions of the Kasyapaparivarta

3 The Dates of the Several Versions of the Kasyapaparivarta

4 The Formation of the Maharatnaku?a

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Literature

2 The Maharatnaku?a Collection in Indian Buddhist Scriptural Anthologies

Examining the Sutrasamuccaya, Sik?asamuccaya and Mahasutrasamuccaya

Jonathan A. Silk

1 Introduction

2 The Comparisons

3 Misattributions in the Sutrasamuccaya and Elsewhere

4 Conclusion

Literature

3 Assembled in China

A Study of the Shi’er toutuo jing ?????

Jonathan A. Silk, with an appendix on dating by Michael Radich

1 Introduction

2 The dhuta Scheme

3 Mahayanization?

4 Sources

5 Influences

6 The Edition and Translation

7 Citations

Literature

Appendix (Michael Radich): Computer-Assisted Analysis of Internal Stylistic Evidence for the Composition Scenario of the Shi’er toutuo jing

4 The Ga?gottaraparipr?ccha

A Small Mahayana Buddhist Scripture

Jonathan A. Silk

1 Introduction

2 Format of the Editions and Translations

3 Texts and Translations of the Ga?gottaraparipr?ccha

4 Readings

5 Indices

Literature

Über Autor(innen)

Rafal Felbur, Ph.D. (2018), Stanford University, is Assistant Professor in Buddhist Studies at the University of Heidelberg. He works on the intellectual, cultural, and social dynamics of the encounter between India and China in the first millennium CE.