Literary History of Sanskrit Buddhism - From Winternitz, Sylvain Levi, Huber #255615

Ihave added as Appendix IV the weighty contribution to the Buddhist drama by Winternitz (voi. 1918. P. While these chapters will more or less appeal to the Specialist, Appendix V on the Treasures of ancient literatures by Luders will interest any one susceptible to the importance of the revival and resuscitation of a dead past and, in some cases. Of a past neither the existence nor the death of which was suspected. It was prepared in the first instance for one of Mrs. 'besant's literary periodicals. The number of works which have been brought again to unanticipated light from Central Asia includes not only Sanskrit and Buddhist texts, but Iranian and especially Pahlavi documents of prime value. The Appendix (vii) on the sources of the Diz'yaradczna is inserted as a proof of the great importance of Chinese for Sanskrit Buddhism. The contribution by Ed. Huber (appendix VIII) is believed to be his last. The death at the early age of thirty-five of this French genius is a loss not only to Buddhist scholarship in its difficult ramifications of Chinese Tibetan, Sanskrit and Pali but to that exceedingly rare branch of learning which links Mahayana Buddhism to Persia through the intermediary of Tibet. (mefanges, Sylvam Levi, p. As the literary activities of the Buddhists have perhaps not been fully represented in the work of Winternitz in respect of grammar, lexicography, — Amara was most probably a Buddhist,-astronomy and medicine, Ihave inserted the condensed remarks of I. Iolly on medical science of the Buddhists from the Grundriss. Much concise information in English on Vasubandhu has been supplied by Sylvain Levi and the Japanese scholars in the various articles in the Eneyelopaedia of Religion and Etizies but I hope the few pages from Burnouf will not be held antiquated (appendix X).