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M. I. Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya, Bibliotheca Philologica et Philosophica Buddhica V (Tokyo: IRIAB, Soka University, 2002)
This volume presents the first facsimile edition of the St. Petersburg Sanskrit manuscript (SI P/2) of the Kāśyapaparivarta, one of the oldest and most important texts of the Mahāyāna Buddhist tradition, accompanied by a new transliteration. The manuscript, brought from Eastern Turkestan in the nineteenth century and held at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, was first transliterated by Alexander von Staël-Holstein in 1926 alongside Tibetan and Chinese versions. Comparison of SI P/2 with Central Asian Sanskrit fragments from British, Finnish, German, and Russian collections reveals that at least two versions of the text circulated in Eastern Turkestan — a briefer, earlier prose version and an extended version that adds verse summaries after the prose passages. The introduction surveys the significance of the Kāśyapaparivarta for Mahāyāna Buddhism, noting that it was regarded as a foundational text by both Madhyamaka and Yogācāra schools, that it contains the first full formulation of the bodhisattva moral code, and that it was widely quoted in works including Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya and Prajñākaramati's commentary on the Bodhicaryāvatāra.
- Introductionvii
- Conventionsxiv
- Romanized Text of the Sanskrit Manuscripts1
- I. Manuscript SI P/2 (St. Petersburg)3
- II. Manuscript SI P/85A (St. Petersburg)58
- III. Fragments in the Hoernle and the Mannerheim Collections (London/Helsinki)60
- IV. A Fragment in the Turfan Collection (Berlin)63
- Facsimiles
- Manuscript SI P/2Plate 1
- Manuscript SI P/85APlate 75
- Fragments in the Hoernle CollectionPlate 76
- A Fragment in the Turfan CollectionPlate 78
