Buddhist Sanskrit texts grew enormously over some thirteen centuries, from 200 B.C. to 1100 A.D., and are the source and nucleus of Mahayana. Many then fell into oblivion after the libraries of Nalanda and Vikramashila were destroyed and monks and scholars fled to Nepal and Tibet with their manuscripts. This two-volume work by Karunesh Shukla shows how that literature was found again and where it survives today. Volume I, Discoveries, Explorations and Availabilities of the Texts, follows the search that began in the nineteenth century through Nepal, Tibet, Central Asia and India, including the work of Hodgson, Bendall, Sarat Chandra Das, Tucci, Rahula Sankrityayana, Stein and Ganapati Shastri, and the finds at Gilgit. Its appendices list the texts available in their original form: Mahayana Sutras, Prajnaparamita, Avadana, poetic works, stotras, lexicons, the Abhidharma, Yogacara and Madhyamika systems, Tantric texts, sadhanas and dharanis. Volume II, Buddhist Sanskrit Literature in the Asian Tradition, turns to works preserved in Chinese and Tibetan translation, texts reconstructed during the last century, and the works translated into Chinese by Yuan Chwang. With plates, maps, a bibliography and an index, this is a reference for students and scholars of Buddhism, Sanskrit and Asian studies. The author is a former Professor and Chairman of the Department of Sanskrit and Prakrit and Dean of Arts at D.D.U. Gorakhpur University.
Karunesh Shukla (Born 1940), Ph.D. is a former Professor and Chairman of Sanskrit and Prakrit Languages Department and Dean, Faculty of Arts, D.D.U. Gorakhpur University, a Fellow and a Senior Fellow of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi and Department of Culture, Government of India and a Shāstracūḍāmaṇi scholar of the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi. He is the General Secretary, Nagarjuna Buddhist Foundation, a MCC under National Manuscript Mission and is its Co-ordinator since 2005, worked as member of the various government committees. He has visited Rome, Vienna, London, Kathmando and Tononto on scholarly expeditions. He has chaired sessions of the national and international conferences and has lectured in several Indian universities and international forums. He has extensively contributed to indological journals and academic publications, including dictionaries and encyclopedias in the field of Indian literature, philosophy and Buddhist studies. His works include, besides more than 150 research papers and contributions
Volume 1समर्पणम्--Dedication--Preface--Acknowledgements--Key to Transliteration--भूमिका--Introduction--Abbreviations--Part 1 : Buddhist Sanskrit Texts Discovered During The Last Two Centuries (Nepal, Tibet, Central Asia and India)--Appendix 1: Nepal : Manuscripts Discovered by B.H. Hodgson--Appendix 2: Nepal : BST Discovered by Daniel Wrights--Appendix 3: Manuscripts Collected by Bendall--Appendix 4: Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscripts of Kesar Library, Kathamando--Appendix 5: Manuscripts Discovered in the Recent Past in Nepal--Appendix 6: Some Important Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscripts Discovered From Tibet/Nepal By GIUSEPPE TUCCI--Appendix 7: BST Discovered from Tibet by Mahapandita Rahula Sankryayana (Microfilms Deposited with K.P. Jayaswal Research Institute, Patna)--Appendix 8 : BST Discovered from Central Asia (Chinese Turkestan, Kashgar, Khotan, Turfan)--Appendix 9: BST Discovered from India--Appendix 10: The Navadharmas (Canonical Mahayāna Sūtras)--Appendix 11: Collection of Sūtras--Appendix 12: Some Other Mahāyāna Sūtras--Appendix 13: Prajñāpāramitā Texts--Appendix 14: Mahāyāna Sūtras Found with Extracts Quoted in the Śikṣāsamuccaya of Śantideva--Part 2: Availabilities--Appendix 15: Avadāna Texts--Appendix 16: Poetic Works (Epics)--Appendix 17: Poetic Works (Dramatic Compositions)--Appendix 18: Poetic Works (Works in Mixed Style (Campu))--Appendix 19: Kathā Works--Appendix 20: Lekha Works/Letters--Appendix 21: Poetics--Appendix 22: Some Stotras Found in Thier Orignal Form--Appendix 23: Lexicons (Kośa works)--Appendix 24: Mahāyāna Sūtras Commented Upon By Mahāyāna Teachers--Appendix 25: Mahāyānasūtras Quoted in the Philosophical Literautre--Appendix 26: Philosophical Texts : Abhidharama (Sarvāstivāda : Vaibhāṣika, Sautrāntika) Texts--Appendix 27: Yogācāra Vijñānavāda Texts (including Nyāya Works)--Appendix 28: Mādhyamika Texts--Appendix 29: Tantric Texts--Appendix 30: Sādhana Works / Collection of Sādhanas--Appendix 31: Some …
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