Author: Padmanabh S Jaini
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 557
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8120817761
Description
In this volume, twenty-nine articles of Professor Jaini, encompassing some forty years of research on various facets of Buddhism, have been brought together for the first time.
Professor P S Jaini is renowned amongst Indological scholars for his unique analysis. In this volume, twenty-nine articles of Professor Jaini, encompassing some forty years of research on various facets of Buddhism, have been brought together for the first time.
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 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 'Abhidharma-kosabhasya' 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 Banarsidas, 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 to controversy within Abhidharma, the Bodhisattva career of Maitreya based on narratives from the Jatakas and Mahayana Sutras, and selections from Buddhist ritual texts.
Contents
Foreword by Paul Dundas
Preface
SECTION I: INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHIST FAITH
States of Happiness in Buddhist Heterodoxy (1999)
SECTION II: BUDDHIST STUDIES
Buddhist Studies in Recent Times: Some Emi9nent Buddhist Scholars in India and Europe (1956)
SECTION III: BUDDHISM AND JAINISM
Sramanas: Their Conflict with Brahmanical Society (1970)
On the 'Sarvajnatva' (Omniscience) of Mahavira and the Buddha (1974)
The Jina as a Tathagata: Amrtacandra's Critique of Buddhist Doctrine (1976)
Samskara-Duhkhata and the Jaina Concept of Suffering (1977)
The Disappearance of Buddhism and the survival of Jainism in India: A study in Contrast (1980)
Values in Comparative Perspective: 'Svadharma'' versus 'Ahimsa' (1987)
On the Ignorance of the Arhat (1992)
SECTION IV: ABHIDHARMA LITERATURE
On the Theory of Two Vasubandhus (1958)
Buddha's Prolongation of Life (1958)
The Vaibhasika Theory of Words and Meaning (1959)
The Sautrantika Theory of 'Bija' (1959)
The Origin and Development of Viprayukta-samskaras (1959)
'Abhidharmadipa' (1961)
'Prajna' and 'Drsti' in the Vaibhasika Abhidharma (1977)
'Smrti' in the Abhidharma Literature and the Development of Buddhist Accounts of Memory of the Past (1992)
SECTION V: JATAKA AND AVADANA LITERATURE
The Story of Sudhana and Manohara: An Analysis of Texts and the Borobudur Reliefs (1966)
On the Buddha Image (1979)
Some 'niti' Verses of the 'Lokaneyya-pakarana (1984)
Political and Cultural Data in References to Mathura in the Buddhist Literature (1988)
'Padipadanajataka': Gautama's Last Female Incarnation (1989)
The Apocryphal Jatakas of Southeast Asian Buddhism (1990)
SECTION VI : MAHAYANA
The 'Aloka' of Haribhadra and the 'Saratama' of Ratnakarasanti: A Comparative Study of the Two Commentaries of the Astasahastrika (1972)
The Sanskrit Fragments in Vinitadeva's 'Trimsika-tika (1985)
Stages in the Bodhisattva Career of the Tathagata Maitreya (1988)
SECTION VII: RITUAL TEXTS
'Mahadibbamanta': A Paritta Manuscript from Cambodia (1965)
(Introduction to) Vasudhara-Dharani: A Buddhist work in use among the Jainas of Gujarat (1968)
(Introduction to and Translation of) 'Akaravattarasutta: An 'Apocryphal' Sutta from Thailand (1992)