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DPS Kanjur: Them spang ma & Peking blockprints (2010)

Outrageously expensive scans of basic material for the study of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism:

DPS電子仏教文献データ 『ギャンツェ・テンパンマ・カンギュル写本DVD』 470,000円

DPS電子仏教文献データ 『北京版カンギュルDVD』 370,000円 [prices from Kawachen]

Digital Preservation Society. Tempangma manuscript of the Kangyur. 113 (? out of 114) volumes. PDF files, distributed on DVD. Shinagawa, Tokyo: 2010. US$4,700.00 (Including shipping) [sample]

Digital Preservation Society. Peking Kangyur. 107 volumes. PDF files, distributed on DVD. Shinagawa, Tokyo: 2010. US$3,700.00 (Including shipping) [sample]

See also the Digital Preservation Society’s PDF flyer in English.

Tempangma manuscript of the Kangyur (Digital Preservation Society PDF)
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Administrivia: Brief end-of-year report

  • Traffic is up about 375% over last year, according to one metric. Many of the new visitors are sentient beings.
  • The top three countries from which readers visit Jinajik are the USA, Japan and Germany (not necessarily in that order). Great nations like the great yāna, it seems.
  • There may be no such thing as a free bhojana, but the lure of it is precisely what brings many of you here. The most clicked-on tag in 2011 is Sanskrit text, closely followed by PDF.
  • The most read article this year, by far, was last year’s announcement of Michael Allen’s The Daśakarma Vidhi. (For those who might want more, I have a short review forthcoming in the Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia.)
  • Complaints received in 2011: 0. Compliments received: 1. (A ratio that would please Mr. Micawber.)
New year fireworks, Melbourne, 2012.
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Wakahara, ‘Buddhist Sanskrit MSS in Bangladesh’ (2011)

若原雄昭 「バングラデシュ国内に保存されるサンスクリット仏教写本 , 他」 龍谷大学アジア仏教文化研究センター

Wakahara, Yusho. ‘Sanskrit Buddhist Manuscripts Preserved in Bangla Desh’. Ryukoku University Research Center for Buddhist Cultures in Asia, Working Paper 1, 2011. [PDF]

Kudos to Prof. Wakahara for getting some good photographs of Buddhist Sanskrit manuscripts out of Bangladesh. So in future reports on these manuscripts there should be no problem with providing full transcriptions of the colophons, including all the information about their Nepalese (and Tibetan, in one case) transmitters and users.

Karunapundarika and Karandavyuha
Karuṇāpuṇḍarīka and Kāraṇḍavyūha.
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Mori, ‘Buddhist art & mandalas of Tibet’ (2011)

Mori, Chibetto no Bukkyou bijutsu to Mandara

森 雅秀 (著) 『チベットの仏教美術とマンダラ』 名古屋大学出版会 2011年07月 12,600円

Mori, Masahide. Chibetto no Bukkyō bijutsu to mandara [*Buddhist Art and Mandalas of Tibet]. Nagoya: The University of Nagoya Press, 2011. 315 pp. ISBN 978-4-8158-0670-5. [official site]

Contents
第１部（チベットの地理と歴史 チベットの仏教美術概観　ほか）
第２部（ラダック地方アルチ寺三層堂のマンダラ ペンコル・チョルテン第五層の金剛界マンダラ）
第３部（マンダラ儀軌集成書『ヴァジュラーヴァリー』ゴル寺の「ヴァジュラーヴァリー・マンダラ集」とその周辺　ほか）
第４部（集会樹に見られる宗教実践とイメージ「五百尊図像集」に関する基本的問題　ほか）

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Sakuma, ‘Lokeśvara in Indian Tantric Buddhism’ (2011)

佐久間 留理子 『インド密教の観自在研究』 山喜房佛書林 10.5.2011 A5 17,000円

Sakuma, Ruriko. Indo Mikkyō no Kanjizai Kenkyū [*Studies on Avalokiteśvara in Indian Tantric Buddhism]. Tokyo: Sankibo Busshorin, 2011. 620 pp. ISBN 978-4-7963-0015-5.

Contents (目次)
第１部

研究目的、及び、研究対象の成立背景
　１）研究目的と先行研究
　２）成就法の成立背景
　３）観自在の展開

第１章　文献学的研究
　１）研究目的と先行研究
　２）『サーダナ．マーラー』のサンスクリット写本
　３）バッタチャルヤ校訂本とサンスクリット写本と関係

第２章　図像学的研究
　１）観自在の種類
　２）聖観自在のタイプ
　３）密教的聖観自在のタイプ

第３章　宗教実践方法の研究
　１）成就法の構造
　２）成就法における二種の映像
　３）身体技法としての成就法
結論

第２部

翻訳研究
略号
1 ローカナータ（世門主）成就法
2 カサルパナ（空行）世自在成就法
3 ヴァジュラダルマ（金剛法）成就法
4 シャダクシャリー（六字）世自在成就法
5 シンハナーダ（獅子吼）世自在成就法
6 ニーラカンタ（青頸）聖観自在成就法
7 ハーラーハラ世自在成就法
8 パドマナルッテーシュヴァラ（蓮華舞自在）成就法
9 ハリハリハリヴァーハナ生起成就法
10 トラーイロークヤヴァシャンカラ（三界制御)世自在成就法、及び、トラーイロークヤヴァシャンカラ（三界制御)の教えのブグマ世自在成就法
11 ラクタ（赤）世自在成就法
12 ローケーシュヴァラ（世自在）敬愛儀軌
13 マーヤージャーラクラマ（幻化網次第）観自在
14 供養を伴うマーシャムカの陀羅尼
15 スガティサンダルシャナ（善趣示現）世自在
16 プレータサンタルピタ世自在成就法
17 スカーヴァティー(極楽）世自在成就法

作例表
（Ａ）聖観自在のタイプ
(A.1) ローカナータ（世門主)
(A.2) カサルパナ(空行)世自在
(A.3) ヴァジュラダルマ（金剛法）

（Ｂ）密教的観自在のタイプ
(B.1) シャダクシャリー（六字）世自在
(B.2) シンハナーダ（獅子吼）世自在
(B.3) ニーラカンタ（青頸）聖観自在
(B.4) ハーラーハラ世自在
(B.5) パドマナルッテーシュヴァラ（蓮華舞自在）
(B.6) ハリハリハリヴァーハナ世自在
(B.7) トラーイロークヤヴァシャンカラ　(三界制御)世自在
(B.8) ラクタ（赤）世自在
(B.9) マーヤージャーラクラマ（幻化網）観自在
(B.10) スガティサンダルシャナ（善趣示現）世自在
(B.11) プレータサンタルピタ世自在
(B.12) スカーヴァティー（極楽）世自在

参考文献
あとがき
索引

Nīlakaṇṭha (Sakuma 2011:150‒151)
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Condolences to victims of the March 11 Japan quake

A few words to offer my condolences to the people of Japan in the wake of the March 11 earthquake/tsunami, which has wreaked widespread devastation and taken thousands of lives. May the suffering there be swiftly overcome, and may something be learned and acted upon in order to reduce future suffering.

Followers of the Mahāyāna are instructed to empathise with people they do not necessarily know or like. This is a corollary of the truism that it is easier to understand those who are close to you, or part of your own experience; serious empathy requires serious effort. I therefore hope you will forgive my narrowness when I say that it saddens me to think how this will affect my friends and colleagues in Japan.

Earthquake catfish write 'Sanskrit' talismans. Namazu-e, Ibaraki-ken (1855).

One of my first experiences of Japan, shortly after arriving on a self-funded visit fifteen years ago, was of a tiny hostel room clattering in a tremor. Today I have correspondence postmarked at Sendai, located next to the epicentre of the quake, which came with offprints of articles that taught me a lot. I feel fortunate that Japan’s second-to-none Buddhist studies culture is the first I encountered, even though it now no longer produces more scholarship in this field than the rest of the world combined. Over the years, I have come to realise that Japan’s excellence in this field is truly an embarrassment of riches; many brilliant Japanese scholars I have met are quietly anxious that they will never be able to make a living. And now this happens. 頑張って下さい。

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Mori, ‘The Rituals of Tantric Buddhism in India’ (2011)

The Rituals of Tantric Buddhism in IndiaMori, Masahide. Indo mikkyō no girei sekai (The Rituals of Tantric Buddhism in India). Sekai Shisōsha, 2011, 340pp. ISBN 978-4-7907-1498-9. [official site / amazon.co.jp]

森　雅秀〮著 『インド密教の儀礼世界』 世界思想社 7140円

“The iconology of tantric Buddhist ritual.
[This book] makes the full picture of tantric Buddhist ritual emerge through elucidation of the structure and semiology of ritual in Indian tantric Buddhism. Its illumination of [a previously] unknown ritual world, Buddhist studies and Indology, as well as religious studies, anthropology, history, archaeology and art history and so on will have a wide impact on several areas.” [translated blurb]

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Ohkado et al, ‘Xenoglossy in Hypnosis’ (2010)

Inexplicable irruptions.
Inexplicable irruptions.
Xenoglossy, ‘speaking in tongues’, a phenomenon considered by some to offer evidence for reincarnation, is not widely discussed — because not widely accepted — in the scientific literature. Nonetheless, articles have recently been published on the case of a Japanese woman who converses in Nepali, a language that she has (apparently) not learned, while under hypnosis. Here’s one:

大門 正幸, 稲垣 勝巳, 末武 信宏, 岡本 聡 「退行催眠時に生じる異言とそれが示唆するもの(第29回生命情報科学シンポジウム」 (OHKADO Masayuki, INAGAKI Katsumi, SUETAKE Nobuhiro, and OKAMOTO Satoshi. On Xenoglossy Occurring in Hypnosis and What It Suggests (The 29th Symposium on Life Information Science).) Journal of International Society of Life Information Science 28 (1), 128–139, 2010.
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