Study of a Newly Identified Sanskrit Manuscript of the Saptajinastotra

• Authors: Enbo Hu

Abstracts

EN

This paper focuses on a newly identified Sanskrit manuscript of the Saptajinastotra (Praise of the Seven Buddhas) that was found at the Drepung Monastery in Tibet. By providing a critical edition and translation, as well as a comparison of the parallel Tibetan and Chinese texts, it presents the Sanskrit version of T 1682 Qi fo zan bai jia ta 七佛讚唄伽他 for the first time and corrects several mistakes, misspellings and misreadings of the manuscript, Tibetan and Chinese works.

Keywords

EN

Sanskrit manuscripts in Tibet; Praise of the Seven Buddhas; Saptajinastotra; De bzhin gshegs pa bdun gyi bstod pa; T 1682

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych PAN
• Journal: Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia
• Year: 2023
• Issue: 36
• Pages: 69-90

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Enbo Hu

• Internationales Doktorantenkolleg Philologie and Institut für Indologie und Tibetologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

• https://orcid.org/0009000210515369

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Identifiers

DOI

10.60018/AcAsVa.spvj9399

Biblioteka Nauki

36457073