Sanskrit Texts from the Tibetan Autonomous Region

Based on a newly discovered Sanskrit manuscript from Tibet, the book contains new editions of Candragomins's Jambhalastotra and Deśanāstava, Harṣa's Suprabhātastava, Varāhasvāmin's Devātiśayastotra, Rādhasvāmin's Viśeṣastava, and also a fragment of Mātṛceṭa's Prasādapratibhodbhava. The book also contains an introduction to the manuscript and its palaeography. In this volume the Sanskrit texts of Jambhalastotra, Deśanāstava and Viśeṣastava are presented for the first time.     

Dharmakīrti’s Sambandhaparīkṣā was already well known through its Tibetan translations and numerous quotations in Sanskrit before a newly found Sanskrit manuscript from Drepung monastery and Hideomi Yaita’s identification of the last three strophes in Sanskrit allowed for a new edition of the complete text. This Drepung manuscript also contains the commentary Sambandhaparīkṣāvṛtti hitherto ascribed to Dharmakīrti, but in this manuscript, and well acceptable, ascribed to his pupil...

This book contains a critical Sanskrit edition of the first five chapters of a work that presents the steps of the path to full Awakening according to the “Great Vehicle” of Buddhism. The author of the work, the Indian scholar Candrakīrti (circa A.D. 570–650), is one of the most important representatives of the Madhyamaka, the “Middle Way” school. A central theme of the tradition is the emptiness or lack of reality of all things and beings. Those aspiring to achieve Awakening, the bodhisattvas,...

This new volume in the STTAR series follows up the publication of the critical edition of the third chapter of Dharmakīrti’s "Pramāṇaviniścaya" (on argumentation in philosophical debate), which was published in the same series as volume 8 (2011). The current volume presents a diplomatic edition of the Sanskrit text of the corresponding chapter in the commentary by Dharmottara (8th c.), the "Pramāṇaviniścayaṭīkā", based on a Photostat copy of an incomplete palm-leaf manuscript in Proto Bengālī...

The Pañcaśatikā Prajñāpāramitā or „Perfection of Wisdom in 500 Lines“ is a Mahāyāna Buddhist scripture that has received almost no attention to date, neither within Buddhist tradition nor in modern scholarship. The text is nonetheless of unique value, as an influence of the Consciousness-only or Yogācāra school can clearly be seen. The critical edition of the Sanskrit text presented in this volume is chiefly based on a photocopy kept in the library of the China Tibetology Research Center,...

The Hetubindu, composed by the Buddhist philosopher and logician Dharmakīrti during his middle period (around 600 CE), develops further, with succinct formulations and elaborations on the formal structures and essential elements, his theory of logical reason and inference as he had presented it in the work of his youth, which later became the first chapter, on inference, of the Pramāṇavārttika together with an explanatory Vṛtti, and was refined in the second chapter of his Pramāṇaviniścaya. In...

A Less Traveled Path brings to light unique textual evidence of an important transitional moment in Indian Buddhism. This book includes a critical edition and translation of the second chapter of a third- or fourth-century Buddhist Sanskrit text, the Saddharmasmṛtyupasthānasūtra, which sheds light on the so-called “Middle Period” of Indian Buddhism. In his introduction, Stuart argues that meditative practice, rhetoric, and philosophy were intimately tied to one another when the...

A Critical Edition of the Sanksrit with the Tibetan and Chines Translations, a Diplomatic Transliteration of the Manuscript and Notes

Sthiramati`s Pañcaskandhakavibhāṣā is an extensive 6th century Yogācārā commentary on Vasunbahdu´s Pañcaskandhaka, a short analysis of the five constituents of the person (skandha). The text was available until now only through its Tibetan translation and is presented in these two volumes in its Sanskrit original for the first time. As one of the few Abhiddharmic works of the Yogācārā school known to be extant in Sanskrit, the text is a significant source for the technical terminology of this...

From the Contents: Supplementary note to the introduction of the critical edition of chapter 1 - On chronology; Editorial polica and conventions; Critical edition: Svamata, Vadavidhi, Nyaya, Vaisesika, Sankhya, Mimamsa; Bibliography; Indices; Diplomatic Edition

The volumes of the series "Sanskrit Texts from the Tibetan Autonomous Region (SSTAR)" which have appeared until now have made contributions to our knowledge of Indian Buddhism which are of such importance that they may be called revolutionary. The volumes which we are introducing here, however, mark an important new phase in the long-term project of incorporating the treasures preserved in Sanskrit manuscripts in Tibet into the intellectual and spriritual history of mankind. They present,...