News
May 15, 2023
We are pleased to announce the publication of the database of Phal chen (Avataṃsaka) Section with the images of the six volumes (vols. 45~50) of the section. The Buddhāvataṃsakasūtra is extant in Tibetan and Chinese translations and Sanskrit fragments. Our thanks are due to a specialist in the study of this sūtra, Mr. HORI Shin'ichiro for providing us with two valuable instructions on the Sanskrit manuscripts and the original title of this sūtra. We also thank Dr. Park Hyunjin for writing a very informative commentary on the structure of the Tibetan Buddhāvataṃsakasūtra with the Appendix of the comparative table of Chinese, Tibetan, and Sanskrit versions. The list of references and the catalog of the section he compiled also deserve our great gratitude. The information of the catalogue is integrated into each item page by Dr. NAKAMURA Satoru. The images will also be accessible through the website of the Resources for Kanjur & Tanjur Studies (rKTs), Vienna.
Acknowledgment
It is our great pleasure to publish the database of the Toyo Bunko Manuscript Kanjur. The Tibetan research group of the Toyo Bunko launched the project in collaboration with the Open Philology project, an ERC-funded effort based at Leiden University (project 741884), and the project Buddhist Kanjur Collections in Tibet’s Southern and Western Borderlands based at the University of Vienna. Our sincere thanks are due to Prof. Jonathan Silk of Leiden University, Prof. Helmut Tauscher, Dr. Markus Viehbeck, and Dr. Bruno Lainé of the University of Vienna for their participation in the project. We gratefully acknowledge the Taishō Univeristy for permitting us to reproduce the catalogue of the Toyo Bunko Manuscript Kanjur published by Prof. SAITO Kōjun in 1977. We also thank Dr. NAKAMURA Satoru for constructing the website and IJŪIN Shiori for compiling the detailed catalogue of the dKon brtsegs (Ratnakūṭa) section, the data of which are integrated into each item page. The images of the six volumes (vols. 51–56) of the dKon brtsegs (Ratnakūṭa) section are accessible here and will also be seen through the website of the Resources for Kanjur & Tanjur Studies (rKTs), Vienna (see Link). We will continue the project and publish other sections of the Manuscript Kanjur.
November 24, 2021
YOSHIMIZU Chizuko
MIYAZAKI Tensho