Review

Author(s): Giuseppe Tucci

Review by: Giuseppe Tucci
Source: East and West, Vol. 12, No. 2/3, The Work and Life of Rabindranath Tagore (June -
September 1961), p. 220
Published by: Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente (IsIAO)
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 rity which shows the mastery of the subject, pa texts interpreted and translated by his Guru
the A. gives a resume of the main ideas of the Kazi Dawa Samdup. The book has had such
and a detailed a wide circulation, for the of its
system bibliography. importance
The Sanskrit text, based on that of De la contents, and for
giving first hand infor?
Vallee has been in many cases re? mation on some current among
Poussin, yogic practices
one of the most the esoteric sects of Tibet, that there is no need
vised. Thus important works
of N?g?rjuna as one of his to come back to the merits of the work. Of
interpreted by
most distinguished and one particular interest is the chapter on the Cos
followers, certainly
of most books of In? drug, the six doctrines, viz. the Naropai c'os
important philosophical
dia is fully accessible to those, unable drug the six doctrines of Naropa, and the book
who,
to read want a direct on realization of non-ego,
Sanskrit, acquaintance gcod.
with his Of course our Japanese col?
thought.
are still working hard on N?g?rjuna
leagues
and his philosophical activities and perhaps Corpus Scriptorum Mongolorum Instituti Lin?
some references to the their most re?
important guae et litterarum comiteti scientiarum et
searches would not been out of place in the
educationis altae
reipublicae populi Mon?
otherwise very rich bibliography.
golin Tomus VIII, fasciculus V. Tibetan
version of the Kesar Saga, Chapter V
Struggle against the king Satham. (Ulan
B. C.
Olschak, Tibet Erde der G?tter, Ver? Bator, 1959, pp. 227).
gessene Geschichte Mythos und Saga. (Z??
rich & Stuttgart, Rascher Verlag, pp. XIII, It contains the Tibetan text of one of the
137, not dated). Chapters of
the Legend of Kesar which has
been so well dealt with Prof. R.
recently by
A series of short essays on Tibet. The Hi? Stein. It seems that the edition is based upon a

malaya in Hindu Mythology, the legend of single manuscript because there are no various

Kesar, a short
survey of Tibetan history. readings. The great scientific interest that the
it is clear, has a for the A. cycle of Kesar is gaining every day, makes
Tibet, great appeal
but I am afraid she has summarised from va? highly welcome the publication of the text
rious sources a real knowledge
without of the in that many manuscripts are written in
facts and the importance of her sources, as a very bad cursive hand and abound in
we can see from the bibliography mispellings. It is to be hoped that all available
(where
of Desideri no reference is made to portions of the epics be published by the Aca
speaking
Petech's edition: date of Sron btsan demia of Ulan Bator. Special thanks should
sgam po
be directed to Doctor Rinchen, the very learn?
617-698!).
: ? so I have once heard ed editor; Tibetan scholars are in?
The sentence ?, with specially
the s?tras begin and which is placed debted to him for having directed his attention
which
runs adi also to Tibetan texts.
on the page following the frontespice,
ko brda ki ston pai t'abs cig ha, which has
no
meaning.

Erich Haenisch, Dokumente aus dem Jahre

1788 zur Vorgeschichte des Gorkha-Krieges.
W. Y.Evans-Wentz, Tibetan Yoga and Se? (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften,
cret Doctrines, or seven books of wisdom of Phil.- Hist. Klass. Abhandlungen, N. F.,
the great path, according to the late Lama Heft 49. M?nchen, 1959).
Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English rendering.
With foreword by Dr. R. R. Marett and a This war about whose
campaigns some data
can be found in certain
Tibetan biographies
Yogic commentary by Translator-professor
Chen-chi 2nd edition. London, Ox? was preceded a series of events the records
Chang, by
fordUniversity Press, 1960, pp. XLII, 389). of which have been preserved in the Chinese
archives. Prof. Haenisch relates in the in?
This is the reprint of the second edition troduction the main events with his usual wide
of the well known book of Mr. Evans-Wentz information derived from sources of various
based on the translation of some bka' rgyud kinds.

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