Studies in Abhidharma Literature and the Origins of Buddhist Philosophical Systems by Erich Frauwallner; Sophie Francis Kidd; Ernst

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reveals considerable dependence on precedent. G. Subba Rao's Indian Words in English (1954) and R. E. Hawkins' Common Indian Words in English (1984) are also used. That the "English" here is no longer simply the English of the colonial occupant is signaled by the inclusion of words such as harijan, garibi hatao, and hare krishna. But hawala does not make it: too sordid? Although Himalaya finds its just place, we are somewhat surprised by the entry that follows: Hinayana, "the earlier austere form of Buddhism."And some expressions that earlier collections would not find "Anglo-Indian"at all are here referenced:Higher Standard, H.S.: "a government examination in an Indian language...." That the work is largely secondary and has little "scientific" conception of its subject matter is clear. But, maybe in a hundred years, it will recall as many delightful memories as does Hobson-Jobson now. By the way, the title refers to the three kinds of Englishmen who found good reason to "go East": fortune-hunters,imperialists, and tradesmen. E.G.

dhist Systems," "Paficaskandhaka and Paficavastuka," "The Abhisamayavada,"and "The Sarvastivada." The English-speaking world owes a debt of thanks to the two translators-and especially to Professor Steinkellner,whose participationin this project will reassure those of us who doubt either the utility or the serious possibility of tertiary intertextuality in such a demanding and idiosyncratic subject. E. G.

Researches in Indian and Buddhist Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Professor Alex Wayman.Edited by RAMKARAN SHARMA. Delhi: MOTILAL 1993. Pp. xxxv + BANARSIDASS, 285. Rs 250. This Festschrift, dedicated to one of the most original and controversial scholars of our day, contains a number of important papers by a distinguished panoply of Indianists. The papers testify, in their seriousness, to the respect in which the honoree is held. The selection is unusually wide-ranging. The papers are grouped into five sections, three of which are "Buddhist" (on on "Karma," "DependentOrigination,"and on "Miscellaneous" subjects), one each "Jain"and "Hindu."With a perhapstonguein-cheek sense of Buddhist notions of "order,"the "miscellaneous" section begins the volume-and here are found some of the best papers, including those of Andre Bareau, on Asafiga's list of the asarhskrtadharmah; HajimeNakamura,on "The Seven Principles of the Vajjian Republic"; and Michael Hahn, who provides an extensive and very circumspect critique of Mark Tatz's views on Candragomin. The three substantial papers on karma are by Shinjo Kawasaki, Hari ShankarPrasad, and T. R. Sharma. Particularly worthy of note are the three on "dependent origination": Akira Hirakawa's on the relation between dhdtu and pratityasamutpada; Collett Cox's lengthy review of the treatmentof that notion in Sarvastivadin abhidharma texts, and George R. Elder's discussion of it in Buddhist Tantra.Padmanabha Jaini and M. A. Dhaky grace the Jaina section with essays on Bhavasena (with text and translation of his Bhuktivicdra) and the Dasavaikalika Sitra. The "Hindu" section is quite amorphous-again, an ironic comment?-but mostly devoted to "Hindu" exegetical questions: K. K. Raja discusses the many similarities in the Buddhist and Mimfiasa views on treats(very succinctly,even laksana; KamaleshwarBhattacharya treatmentof supposedlyotiose possecretively) the grammarians' sessive suffixes on already "possessive" bahuvrihi compounds; an extremely informative essay by R. C. Dwivedi emphasizes the relative independence of Kaimira Saiva "advaita"vis-a-vis Sarhkara's mainline "advaita"-Dwivedi notes, inter alia, that

Studies in AbhidharmaLiterature and the Origins of Buddhist FRAUWALLNER. Translated Philosophical Systems. By ERICH FRANCIS KIDDand ERNST STEINKELLNER. SUNY by SOPHIE Series in Indian Thought. Albany: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEWYORK PRESS,1995. Pp. xiii + 247. $14.95 (paper). This collection of Frauwallner'spapers, originally published in German in the years 1963 through 1973, mostly in WZKO (7 through 17), is divided into two sections-on the themes mentioned in the title. As Ernst Steinkellner indicates in the preface (p. xi), the articles constituted a kind of prolegomenon to a projected third volume-never written, on Buddhist philosophical systems-of Frauwallner's epochal Geschichte der indischen Philosophie (Vienna, 1953-56). Steinkellner pointedly continues (in English): "The plan to produce an English translation of these articles was conceived above all because of the striking neglect of these importantcontributions by that part of the academic world which does not read German. With a very few exceptions, studies on the canonical Abhidharma and early Buddhist philosophical thought continue to be written as if these studies had never been published." 'Nuff said: caveat lector linguae anglicae! The titles of the eight chapters (which do not exactly translate the original eight article titles) are: "The Earliest Abhidharma,""The Canonical [Abhidharma] Works [of the Sarvastivada (sic)] School," "The Abhidharma of the Pali "The Origin of the BudSchool," "The Sariputrabhidharma,"