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A New Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Reader

Buddhist Hybrid Sanskri is not a deteriorated Sanskrit (as many believed at the discovery of Buddhist texts in Sanskrit), but, following the theoretical foundations underlying the pioneering work of Franklin Edgerton, a language with its grammar and vocabulary sui generis implemented rather consequently, which for a long period of time was used to spread the teaching of Buddha. The Reader is meant as a textbook for advanced students with an interest in non-standard Sanskrit and Middle Indo-Aryan. A substantial novelty of the Reader is that it includes extracts from representative texts either recently critically re-edited on the basis of new manuscripts or from the texts unknown at the time of Edgerton’s publications. All extracts are accompanied by commentaries explaining their grammatical peculiarities as well as by selections of specific lexical items.
Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC
SKU (ISBN): 978-1-4632-4566-5
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Publication Status: Forthcoming
Publication Date: Aug 31,2023
Interior Color: Black
Trim Size: 7 x 10
Page Count: 400
Languages: English
ISBN: 978-1-4632-4566-5
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Buddhist Hybrid Sanskri is not a deteriorated Sanskrit (as many believed at the discovery of Buddhist texts in Sanskrit), but, following the theoretical foundations underlying the pioneering work of Franklin Edgerton, a language with its grammar and vocabulary sui generis implemented rather consequently, which for a long period of time was used to spread the teaching of Buddha.

The Reader is meant as a textbook for advanced students with an interest in non-standard Sanskrit and Middle Indo-Aryan. A substantial novelty of the Reader is that it includes extracts from representative texts either recently critically re-edited on the basis of new manuscripts or from the texts unknown at the time of Edgerton’s publications. All extracts are accompanied by commentaries explaining their grammatical peculiarities as well as by selections of specific lexical items. 

Buddhist Hybrid Sanskri is not a deteriorated Sanskrit (as many believed at the discovery of Buddhist texts in Sanskrit), but, following the theoretical foundations underlying the pioneering work of Franklin Edgerton, a language with its grammar and vocabulary sui generis implemented rather consequently, which for a long period of time was used to spread the teaching of Buddha.

The Reader is meant as a textbook for advanced students with an interest in non-standard Sanskrit and Middle Indo-Aryan. A substantial novelty of the Reader is that it includes extracts from representative texts either recently critically re-edited on the basis of new manuscripts or from the texts unknown at the time of Edgerton’s publications. All extracts are accompanied by commentaries explaining their grammatical peculiarities as well as by selections of specific lexical items. 

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ContributorBiography

BorisOguibénine

Boris L. Oguibénine was educated in the Moscow State University. He has been on the staff of the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow before lecturing at the University of Vienna (Austria) and joining the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France) and the University of Strasbourg of which he is the Emeritus since 2009. His interests are Vedic and Buddhist Sanskrit, Indo-European comparative linguistics and philology.

His chief publications in the field of Buddhist Sanskrit are:

Initiation pratique à l'étude du sanskrit bouddhique, Paris: Picard, 1996.

B. Oguibénine with Y. Ousaka и M. Yamazaki, Prātimokṣasūtram. Word Index and ReverseWord Index. Tokyo: Chūō Academic Research Institute, 2001 (PhilologicaAsiatica, Monograph Series 17).

B. Oguibénine with E. Fauré, Y. Ousaka и M. Yamazaki) Mahāvastu-Avadāna. WordIndex and Reverse Word Index. Tokyo: Chūō Academic Research Institute, 2009 (Philologica Asiatica, Monograph Series 25).

A Descriptive Grammar of Buddhist Sanskrit. The language of the Textual Tradition of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottoravādins. General Introduction. Sound Patterns. Sandhi Patterns. Washington DC: Institute for the Study of Man, 2016.

KatarzynaMarciniak

Katarzyna Marciniak studied Indology at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw. In 2016-2020 she was a research associate at The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University, Japan. Since 2021 she has been head of the Research Centre of Buddhist Studies at the University of Warsaw. Her interests include Buddhist narrative literature, Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, manuscriptology and paleography (Nepalese and North Indian manuscripts, in particular).

Her chief publications in the field of Buddhist Sanskrit are:

  1. The Mahāvastu. A New Edition. Vol. II. Bibliotheca Philologica et Philosophica Buddhica XV, 1. The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University, Tokyo 2020.
  2. The Mahāvastu. A New Edition. Vol. III. Bibliotheca Philologica et Philosophica Buddhica XIV, 1. The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University, Tokyo 2019.
  3. Studia nad Mahāvastu, sanskryckim tekstem buddyjskiej szkoły mahasanghików-lokottarawadinów (Studies on the Mahāvastu, a Buddhist Sanskrit text of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottaravādins), Research Centre of Buddhist Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw 2014.

Preface (vii)
Abbreviations (viii)
Foreword (xv)
Introduction (1)
I. Mahāvastu. The Chapter of the Thousand (19)
II. Patna Dharmapada XXI. Sahasravarggaḥ (27)
III. Udānavarga XXIV. Peyālavarga (35)
IV. Mahāvastu. The Story of Sabhika (41)
V. Mahāvastu. History of Kings (57)
VI. Mahāvastu. Puṇyavantajātaka (71)
VII. Mahāvastu. The Kuśa-Jātaka (89)
VIII. Prātimokṣasūtra of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottaravādins. Introductory Stanzas (137)
IX. Prātimokṣasūtra of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottaravādins. The Thirteen Saṃghātiśeṣā Dharmāḥ (149)
X. Bhikṣuṇī-Vinaya. Pācattika-Dharma 141 (161)
XI. Śikṣāsamuccaya (167)
XII. Dharmacakrapravartana (169)
XIII. Kacchapajātaka (183)
XIV. Ratnaguṇasaṃcayagāthā (191)
XV. Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra (209)
XVI. Mahāsudarśanāvadāna (247)
XVII. Abhisamācārikā Dharmāḥ (259)
XVIII. Karuṇāpuṇḍarīkasūtra (277)
XIX. A Fragment of the Prātimokṣa-Vibhaṅga of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottaravādins (295)
XX. Kāśyapaparivarta (301)
XXI. The Gāthās of the Samādhirājasūtra (315)
XXII. The Gāthās of the Lalitavistara (335)
XXIII. Lalitavistara (excerpt). Asita the Sage (343)
XXIV. Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā (361)
Grammatical Index (377)

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