Uwagi o historii i perspektywach rozwoju studiów nad buddyzmem

• Authors: Marek Mejor
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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REMARKS ON THE HISTORY AND PERSPECTIVES OF DEVELOPMENT OF BUDDHIST STUDIESThe article entitled “Remarks on the History and Perspectives of Development of Buddhist Studies” is an extended version of the paper presented at the conference: “Buddhism and Buddhist Studies in Poland”, Kraków, 25–26 April, 2003. The article consists of three parts: Oriental and Buddhist Studies, Studies on Buddhism in the Institute of Oriental Studies of the University of Warsaw (1932–2003), Supplement. In the first part, the author presents Buddhist studies as a discipline of oriental studies, whose subject-matter is Buddhism in its various forms. The author emphasises the importance of the philological method as well as of suitable linguistic competence in Buddhist studies. In the second part of the article, the author presents a historical outline as well as the present state of research on Buddhism in the Institute of Oriental Studies of the University of Warsaw in the years 1932–2003. Having presented the silhouettes of the creators of the pre-war “Warsaw school of Buddhist studies” – namely those of S. Schayer, K. Regamey, J. Jaworski, A. Kunst and others, the author goes on to discuss the achievements of researchers in the post-war period as well as the perspectives of development of Buddhist studies in Poland (among others, the creation of a Polish specialist periodical entitled “Indological Studies” which is devoted to the various aspects of the Indian culture, including Buddhism). In the third part, the author presents an excerpt from S. Schayer’s introduction (translated from German into Polish) to his excellent translation of the Selected Chapters from Prasannapadā (Ausgewählte Kapitel aus der Prasannapadā, Kraków 1931, § 4), – as a good example of a presentation of the complex philosophical problems of the Buddhist school of madhyamika as well as the afore-mentioned outline of Buddhist studies.

Keywords

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• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Studia Religiologica
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 37

Dates

published

2004

online

2005-06-17

Contributors

author

Marek Mejor