MINOR BUDDHIST TEXTS (Part 1)

G. TUCCI
ching lun sung, Nj. 1208, Taisho 1514, fg ifj ^ fj|J
S ^ i I S I i "i if> restored hypothetically
as Vajracchedikaprajnaparamita-sutra-sastra-karika
(or gatha Nj.) a metrical work by
Asanga is preserved which, as it appears from the very
title, is a commentary upon the Vajracchedika X) . The
1) Fundamental Literature on the Vajracchedika:
MAX MULLER'S edition in Anecdota Oxoniensia. The Aryan Series. Vol. I.
Part I, Oxford 1881.
A. F. R. HOERNLE, JRAS, 1910, p. 834 ff., 1283 ff. and ID., Manuscript
remains of Buddhist Literature, Vol. I, 1916, p. 176 and 214. (Khotanese:
see there references to earlier literature).
E. LEUMANN, Zur nordarischen Sprache u. Literatur, p. 58 ff., p. 84 ff.
H. REICHELT, Die Sogdischen Handschriftenreste des Britischen Museums. II Teil
(Nachtrag), 1931, p. 71 ff. Stzb. Berl. Ak. Wiss. 1934, pp. 644-647.
The Vajracchedika has been translated many times into Chinese: by Kumarajlva,
Hobogirin, n. 235; by Bodhiruci, ibid. n. 236; by Paramartha,
ibid. n. 237; by Dharmagupta, ibid, n. 238; by Hs iian-tsang, ihia*. n. 220-9;
by I Ching, ibid. n. 239.
The Tibetan translation is included in the bKa'agyur. BECK, Verzeichnis
der Tibet. Handschriften, p. 10, n. 5. (set p ' y i n , vol. 24).
OTANI, Cat., p. 223, n. 739. TOHOKU, Cat. (D), p. 5, n. 16. CSOMA KOROSI,
Analysis of Sher Chin, in Asiatic Researches, 1836; p. 395. The translators
into Tibetan were Sllendrabodhi and Ye ses sde.
The Manchu version was edited by C. DE HARLEZ, WZKM, 1897, pp. 209-
290: 331-356.
I. J. SCHMIDT, Memoires de VAcad. Imp. des Sciences, St. Petersbourg. VI me
Serie, 1840.
The work has been translated into English by MAX MULLEH, SBE, vol. XLIX,
Part II, p. 109 ff, W. GEMMELL, Diamond Sutra, Shanghai 1912, A.
F. PRICE, The Diamond Sutra, The Buddhist Society, London 1947; into
French by C. DE HARLEZ, J A, 1891, s. 8., t. XVIII, 440 ff., into German by
M. WALLESER, Die Vollkommenheit der Erkenntniss, Gottingen u. Leipzig
1914.
T. MATSUMOTO TOKUMYO, Die Prajndparamita Literatur, Stuttgart 1932.
M. LALOU, La version Tibetaine des Prajndparamita. J A, CCXXV, 1929, p. 67.
T. AMAN, Bonbun Nodan Kongo Hannyaharamittagyo to Chibeltoyaku Kanyaku
no Taisho, comparison of the Sanskrit Text of V. with its Tib. and Ch. translations.
Daijo, VIII, n. 12.
On the contents of the PP. in general see E. OBERMILLER, Analysis of the
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