A Study of Nagarjuna's Twenty Verses on the Great Vehicle (Mahayanavi sika) and His Verses on the Heart of Dependent Origination (Pratityasamutpadahrdayakarika) with the Interpretation of the Heart of Dependent Origination (Pratityasamutpadahrdayavyakhyan

R. C. Jamieson

ISBN 10: 0820467065 / ISBN 13: 9780820467061

Published by Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Nov 2002, 2002

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This study of the Twenty Verses on the Great Vehicle and the Verses on the Heart of Dependent Origination provides readable translations of the texts, followed by text-critical material, edited Tibetan, and wide-ranging commentary. Detailed editions of and comments upon eighth- or ninth-century A.D. Dunhuang manuscripts of the Heart of Dependent Origination are included. Anyone interested in the second-century Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna will be interested in this book. 183 pp. Englisch.

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• Title: A Study of Nagarjuna's Twenty Verses on the Great Vehicle (Mahayanavi sika) and His Verses on the Heart of Dependent Origination (Pratityasamutpadahrdayakarika) with the Interpretation of the Heart of Dependent Origination (Pratityasamutpadahrdayavyakhyan
• Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Nov 2002
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820467065
• ISBN 13: 9780820467061
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 11D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 11 millimeters depth
• Weight: 300 grams

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Synopsis

This study of the Twenty Verses on the Great Vehicle and the Verses on the Heart of Dependent Origination provides readable translations of the texts, followed by text-critical material, edited Tibetan, and wide-ranging commentary. Detailed editions of and comments upon eighth- or ninth-century A.D. Dunhuang manuscripts of the Heart of Dependent Origination are included. Anyone interested in the second-century Buddhist philosopher Nāgārjuna will be interested in this book.

About the Author

The Author: R. C. Jamieson is Keeper of Sanskrit Manuscripts at the University of Cambridge, a member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, and a member of King's College. Before Cambridge he taught Buddhism in the Study of Religion Department at the University of Leicester. His postgraduate studies were with David Snellgrove at the University of London. Dr. Jamieson's illustrated book on two early illustrated Sanskrit manuscripts, The Perfection of Wisdom (with a preface by the Dalai Lama), is forthcoming.