Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā (Conze)

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Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā: Edited and Translated with Introduction and Glossary
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Translations of Sutras (Skt-Eng)


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A critical Sanskrit edition and English translation of the Vajracchedikāprajñāpāramitāsūtra based on Max Müller's edition. English and Sanskrit; introd. in English. The following are Harrison and Watanabe's comments on this edition:

Several new editions of the complete Sanskrit text of the Vaj were brought out after the publication of the Central Asian and Gilgit fragments, but none of them represents a significant advance on M. Nevertheless, Edward Conze's 1957 edition (No. 4, Cz) has, as it were, assumed canonical status, despite its shortcomings.[11] Conze used Muller's edition as his base text, checking its readings against another copy of the bilingual Tibetan blockprint (Müller's T) kept in the library of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He presented the text in Roman script, with various orthographical modifications, Western punctuation, liberal use of hyphens to break up compounds, and the sandhi between vowels resolved.[12] In the footnotes he added the results of comparisons with P (No. 2), Chakravarti's edition of the Gilgit manuscript (No. 3), the commentaries by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu, and the Tibetan translation, as well as the Chinese translation by Kumārajīva. When there is a phrase that is missing in P and/or G, it is set within parentheses in the text. However, Conze did not use M consistently as his base text, occasionally making changes to the wording in which he conflated his various witnesses arbitrarily. He also failed to list the differences between his witnesses exhaustively. Some of the failings of the resulting text have been pointed out by Schopen (1989: 96-97). Nevertheless, most subsequent translations and studies have relied on Conze's edition, and philosophical questions have also been addressed on the less than solid foundation it provides. Herein lies a major problem. (Harrison and Watanabe, "Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā", in Buddhist Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection, vol. 3, 92)

Citation
Conze, Edward. Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā: Edited and Translated with Introduction and Glossary. 2nd ed., with corrections and additions. Serie Orientale Roma 13. Rome: IsMEO, 1974. First published 1957 by IsMEO (Rome).
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