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The History of Buddhism in India and Tibet by the great scholar Boston Richen grub-pa. Also called Burdon Riposte, is held in great esteem by Tibetan and Mongolian learned lamas. It is distinguished from the work of Traumata by the plan of its compositor, ft consists of three parts. The history proper is preceded by systematical review of the whole of Buddhist literature so far as preserved in Tibet and it is followed by a systematical catalogue of works, authors ...
The Abhisamayalankara is one of the five works upon which the Yogacara school of later Buddhism is founded, and whose authorship is according to the Tibetan tradition, ascribed to Bodhisattava Maitreya, the future Buddha. The book is divided into 8 Chapters. The first three deal with three kinds of Omniscience, the Omniscience of the Mahayanistic Buddha (sarva-akara-jnata), the Omniscience of the Bodhisattva concerning the Path (maarga-jnata) and that kind of ...
This book, analyzing the doctrine of Prajnaparamita or Transcendental Wisdom is based on Tibetan exegetical literature viz. Abhisamayalamkara of Maitreya or as runs its full title, the Abhisamayalamkara-nama-Prajnaparamita-updesa-sastra which is considered by the learned Tibetan tradition to be the most important as, a summary of the Prajnaparamita-sutras, and as the text containing the special theory of the marga or the Path to the attainment of Nirvana ...
The present volume contains the translation of the 2nd part of Bu-ton’s History of Buddhism, i.e. of the historical part proper. The latter begins with the Life of the Buddha and ends with an account of the work carried out by the Tibetan Lotsvas and Indian Pandits of Bu-ton’s own period and immediately before him, viz the translation of the Buddhist Canonical texts and exegetical treatises from the Sanskrit. There are ...
The present volume contains the translation of the 2nd part of Bu-ton’s History of Buddhism, i.e. of the historical part proper. The latter begins with the Life of the Buddha and ends with an account of the work carried out by the Tibetan Lotsvas and Indian Pandits of Buton’s own period and immediately before him (XII and XIII Cent.), viz. the translation of the Buddhist Cannonical texts and exegetical treatises from the ...
The History of Buddhism in India and Tibet by the great scholar Bu-ston Rinchen grub-pa. Also called Budon Rinpoche, is held in great esteem by Tibetan and Mongolian learned lamas. It is distinguished from the work of Taranatha by the plan of its composition. It consists of three parts. The History proper is preceded by a systematical review of the whole of Buddhist literature so far as preserved in Tibet and it is followed by a systematical catalogue of works, ...