A History of Sanskrit Grammatical Literature in Tibet, Volume 1 Transmission of the Canonical Literature

Pieter Cornelis Verhagen

A History of Sanskrit Grammatical Literature in Tibet, Volume 1 Transmission of the Canonical Literature
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Brill
Country
NL
Published
1 November 1993
Pages
356
ISBN
9789004098398

A History of Sanskrit Grammatical Literature in Tibet, Volume 1 Transmission of the Canonical Literature

Pieter Cornelis Verhagen

A survey of the corpus of Indic literature on Sanskrit grammar, extant in Tibetan translation in the Buddhist canon. Core of the study is the description of the 47 Sanskrit grammatical treatises covering some 2000 folios in the canon. The contents of these texts and the historical information regarding their Tibetan translators are examined in detail. Further chapters are devoted to the grammatical analysis in an 8th-century Tibetan handbook for translators and to data from Tibetan historiography. The book offers a systematic study of the extent and the historical development of the Tibetan expertise in Sanskrit grammar, a central scholastic discipline in Buddhism. It opens up a section of Tibetan literature essential to the understanding of the Indo-Tibetan indigenous grammatical traditions.

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