[Buddha-l] Conze's “Buddhism and Asian Society”

[Jayarava]

-- On Fri, 28/11/08, eric zsebenyi <lodru at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I am still looking for the great gter ma of Buddhist
> Studies, Part III of Conze's Memoirs. If anyone has any
> information regarding this manuscript (additional to the
> postings made on this list in October 2005 and the
> H-Buddhism list in November 2001), please let me know. 

In June 2007 I was on retreat with Sangharakshita who was friendly with the Conzes. There were rumours circulating that Sangharakshita might have a copy of the manuscript of the infamous Vol III of the memoirs, I vaguely recall talking to someone who I recall saying that he had seen one in Sangharakshita's library. I took the opportunity to ask him about the rumour which he dismissed. He said that he thought that perhaps a couple of hundred were printed, but that Mrs Conze burnt them all when Edward died.

I don't think it would count a terma. An embittered old man rudely slagging off his contemporaries is hardly likely to be very edifying or informative. Vol I is bad enough! 

The University of Bristol has the Conze archives (41 boxes of them!)
http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/03121102.html
Suggest you contact them.

Best wishes
Jayarava