Pieter Verhagen, Leiden University, The Netherlands
(12th Seminar of the IATS, Vancouver, BC, August 16th, 2010)
Pieter Verhagen presented a list of textual sources that he believes the early Tibetan translators of Indian Buddhist texts relied upon as “tools of the trade”. I beg his pardon, and hope he doesn’t mind that I share this list here, as it was made publicly available by him at the conference and I think others will be interested. These are the texts he discussed and the citations he provided in a hand out:
1) Mahāvyutpatti = bye brag tu rtogs byed chen po sde dge bstan ‘gyur vol. co, f. 1r1-131r8
2) sgra byor bam po gnyis pam sde dge bstan ‘gyur vol co, f. 131v1-160r7
3) khri lde srong btsan sad na legs (799-815) > ‘translation’ edict 814 CE
4) khri srong lde btsan (755-797) >’translation’ edict 795 (or 783) CE
5) *Sv-alpa-vyutpatti = bye brag tu rtogs byed chung ngu
9) Dhātupāṭha
– CG 21: Dhātu-kāya, Tib. byings kyi tshogs sde dge bstan ‘gyur vol. no, f. 112v6-122v2 (Tohoku no. 4429)
– CG 22: Dhātu-kāya, Tib. (lung ston pa ka lā pa’i) byings kyi tshogs sde dge bstan ‘gyur vol. le, f. 63r3-75r7 (Tohoku no. 4285)
– CG 25: Dhātu-kāya, Tib. (tsandra pa’i) byings kyi tshogs sde dge bstan ‘gyur vol. re, f. 71r5-78r7 (Tohoku no. 4277)
– CG 30: Kalāpa-dhātu-sūtra, Tib. ka lā pa’i byings kyi mdo sde dge bstan ‘gyur vol. no, f. 1v1-10r7 (Tohoku no. 4422)
– CG 32: *Dhātu-sūtra, Tib. byings kyi mdo (brda sprod pa tsandra pa’i byings kyi tshogs kyi gleg bam gyi mdo) sde dge bstan ‘gyur vol. no, f. 21v2-31v4 (Tohoku no. 4424)
– CG 45: Pāṇini-dhātu-sūtra, Tib. Pā ṇi ni’i byings kyi mdo Peking bstan ‘gyur vol. pho, f. 342v2-358r5 (Otani no. 5913) [sde dge: deest]
10) Gaṇapāṭha
– CG 2: Viṃśaty-upasarga-vṛtti, Tib. nye bar (b)sgyur ba nyi shu pa’i ‘grel pa (a) Peking bstan ‘gyur vol. le, f. 36v4-41v1 (Otani no. 5768); snar thang vol. le, f. 35v1-39v7; dga’ ldan vol. le, f. 43r1-49r2 (b) sde dge bstan ‘gyur vol re. f. 30r1-34r2 (Tohoku no. 4270); Co ne vol. re, f. 32r1-36v3
– CG 18: Prayoga-mukha-vṛtti, Tib. rab tu sbyor ba’i sgo’i ‘grel pa
- sde dge bstan ‘gyur vol. she, f. 244r1-250v6 (Tohoku no. 4292)
- co ne bstan ‘gyur vol. she, f. 246r1-252v6
- Peking bstan ‘gyur vol. le, f. 238v1-245v6 (Otani no. 5781)
- snar thang bstan ‘gyur vol. le, f. 222v1-230r6
– CG 26: Saṃbandha-siddhy-abhidhāna-prakriyā, Tib. ‘brel ba grub pa zhes bya ba’i rab tu byed pa
- sde dge bstan ‘gyur vol. re, f. 78v1-106r5 (Tohoku no. 4278)
- co ne bstan ‘gyur vol. re, f. 85v4-114v4
- Peking & snar thang bstan ‘gyur: deest
