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Conze, widely known as a leading Buddhist scholar through his many publications (among them Buddhism: Its Essence and Development, which has become a classic), has published during the thirty years of his working life a great number of important articles which are scattered over many periodicals difficult or almost impossible to obtain. To meet a growing demand for the most important of these articles to be re-published we are presenting this volume which contains both translations and original essays: the indispensable report on Recent Progress in Buddhist Studies; the survey of Mahayana Buddhism which is still the only account based on the actual sources; the comparisons of Buddhist and European philosophy; the essay on Buddhist Saviours. The remaining articles deal with the Prajnaparamita on which the author is the leading authority in the west. The translations included will be specially welcome because reliable English translations of Buddhist texts are still rare.
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T H I R T Y YEARS of
BUDDHIST STUDIES Selected Essays
EDWARD CONZE
BRUNO CASSIRER
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Printed irt Great Britain by SPOTTISWOODE, BALLANTYNE & CO LTD London and Colchester Published 1967 by BRUNO CASSIRER (PUBLISHERS) LTD 31 Portland Road, Oxford
Other books by Edward Conxe: BUDDHISM. Its Essence & Development. Cassirer, Oxford 1951. BUDDHIST TEXTS through the Ages. In coll. with I. B. Horner, D. L. Snellgrove, A. Waley. Cassirer, Oxford 1954. ABHISAMAYALANKARA. Translation. Serie Orientale Roma VI, 1954. SELECTED SAYINGS from the PERFECTION OF WISDOM. Buddhist Society, London 1955. THE BUDDHA'S LAW AMONG THE BIRDS. Transl. & Comm. Cqssirer, Oxford 1956. BUDDHIST MEDITATION. Allen & Unwin, London
1956. VAJRACCHEDIKA PRAJRAPARAMITA. ~ d &. Transl. Serie Orientale Roma XIII, 1957. BUDDHIST WISDOM BOOKS. The Diamond Sutra. The Heart Sutra. Allen & Unwin, London 1958. ASTASAHASRIKA PRAJRAPARAMITA. Transl. The Asiatic Society, Calcutta 1958. BUDDHIST SCRIPTURES. Penguin Classics, 1959. THE PRAJRAPARAMITA LITERATURE. IndoIranian Monographs VI. Mouton, The Hague 1960. A SHORT HISTORY OF BUDDHISM. Chetana Ltd., Bombay 1961. THE LARGE SUTRA ON PERFECT WISDOM. Luzac & Co., London and Madison 1961-4. THE GILGIT MANUSCRIP_T OF THEPSTADASASAHASRIKA PRAJ ~ A P A R A M I T A . ~ d & . Transl. Serie Orientale Roma XXVI, 1962. BUDDHIST THOUGHT IN INDIA. Allen & Unwin, London 1962. MATERIALS FOR A DICTIONARY OF THE PRAJRAPARAMITA LITERATURE. Suzuki Research Foundation, Tokyo 1967.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The publishers are grateful for permission to re-print the essays collected in this volume. Permission was kindly given for : Recent Progress in Buddhist Studies, published in: The Middle Way 34, 1959, pp. 6-14; 1960, pp. 14450; 35,1960, pp. 93-8,110. Buddhist Saviours, published in: The Saviour God, ed. by S. G. F. Brandon, 1963, Manchester University Press, pp. 67-82. Mahayana Buddhism, published in: The Concise Encyclopaedia of Living Faiths, ed. R. C. Zaehner, 1959, PP. 296-320. The Meditation on Death, published in: The Middle Way, 29,1955, PP. 159-163 ; 30,1955, PP. 15-18 ; PP. 54-7. The Lotus of The Good Law, Chapter 5 : On Plants, published in: The Middle Way, 37, 1962, pp. 95-6, 1963, pp. 157-60; 38, 1963, pp. 15-7; pp. 49-51. The Development of Praj " iipiiramitii Thought, publised in: Buddhism and ulture. Dedicated to D. T. Suzuki in commemoration of his 90th Birthday, ed, by S. Yamagucchi. Kyoto, 1960, pp. 24-45. The Prajiiiipzramitii-hydaya Siitra published in: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1948, pp. 33-51. The Composition of the Astasiihasrikii Prajfiiipiiramitii, published in: The Bulletin of the London School of Oriental and African Studies, 14, 1952, pp. 251-62. Hate Love and Perfect Wisdom, published in: The Mahabodhi, v. 62,1954, pp. 3-8.
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