[Buddha-l] Languages of Buddhist scholarship

[Piya Tan]

Also one great facility is that the non-diacriticized words are easier to
index and search online and in digital versions.  But this will take some
time as we get more familiar with the words and titles. Some may be
recognized faster than others, like nirvana (instead of nirvaa.n) etc.

Piya


On 11/4/06, Alberto Todeschini <at8u at virginia.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear Joanna,
>
> > Now for the obligatory Buddhist content: would Prof. Todeschini consider
> > posting for us two or three citations to works on Buddhism in Italian
> that
> > he considers to be the best of the past few years?  We can of course
> look up
> > such publications in Italian, but we have perhaps no basis for judging
> what
> > are best, or at least better than others.
>
> I don't know any Prof. Todeschini in person, but if I (Todeschini the
> PhD student) will suffice, I will give one example:
>
> Gnoli, Raniero, ed. _La Rivelazione del Buddha: Il Grande Veicolo_
> Mondadori, 2004
>
> This is the second volume edited by Gnoli. Counting introduction,
> translations, notes and glossary it is almost 2000 pages of Mahayana
> texts translated by several Italian scholars. Included are complete
> translations of:
>
> Prajnaparamitastotra
> Prajnaparamitahrdayasutra Vistamatrka
> Dignaga's Prajnaparamitapindartha
> Vajracchedika
> Arya Sura's Paramitasamasa
> Lalitavistara
> Surangamasamadhisutra
> Vimalakirtinirdesasutra
> Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika
> Nagarjuna's Pratityasamutpadahrdayakarika
> Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani
> Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara
> Kamalasila's 3 Bhavanakramas
> Nagarjuna's Catuhstava
> Matrceta's Satapancasataka
> Vasubandhu's Vimsatika
> Vasubandhu's Trimsika
> Sukhavativyuhasutra (Short version)
> Asvaghosa's Gurupancasika
> Sadhuputrasridharanananda's Sekoddesatippani
> Pundarika's Paramaksarajnanasiddhi
>
> And partial translations of:
> Astadasasahasrikaprajnaparamitra
> Suvarnaprabhasottamasutra
> Saddharmapundarika
> Samadhirajasutra
> Lankavatarasutra
> Dasabhumikasutra
> Candrakirti's Prasannapada
> Moksakaragupta's Tarkabhasa
> Santaraksita's Tattvasamgraha
> The Book of Zambasta
> Guhyasamajatantra
> Hevajratantra
> Vajrapani's Laghutantratika
>
> Diacritics can look a bit messy to non-specialists, and specialists
> don't need them, so I did not write them.
>
> Alberto Todeschini
>
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