{"id":1155,"date":"2014-05-31T18:50:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T18:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2014-05-31T18:50:30","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T18:50:30","slug":"buddhica-britannica-series-continua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/buddhica-britannica-series-continua\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhica Britannica Series Continua"},"content":{"rendered":"

An important but not well enough known series of Buddhist books is published by the Institute of Buddhist Studies, Tring, U.K. The Buddhica Britannica Series Continua includes considerable material pertaining to the Buddhist tantras (rgyud sde<\/em>, earlier phoneticized as kiu-te<\/em>). Behind this series is Dr. Tadeusz Skorupski, who succeeded Dr. David Snellgrove in teaching Buddhist Studies and Tibetan Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. As is well known, Dr. Snellgrove produced the first ever English translation of a Buddhist tantra, The Hevajra Tantra<\/em> (1959), accompanying his Sanskrit and Tibetan editions of it. Dr. Skorupski has continued this work on the Buddhist tantras in an exemplary manner. He, too, produced an English translation of a Buddhist tantra, The Sarvadurgatipari\u015bodhana Tantra<\/em> (1983), accompanying his Sanskrit and Tibetan editions of it. In the Buddhica Britannica Series Continua he has provided an abridged English translation of another tantric text, the Kriy\u0101sa\u1e43graha<\/em> (2002), a compendium of Buddhist rituals. The most recent publication in this series is the Vajr\u0101val\u012b of Abhay\u0101karagupta<\/em> (2 vols., 2009), edited in Sanskrit and Tibetan by Masahide Mori, which began as a PhD thesis under Dr. Skorupski. This famous but hitherto unedited text is an extensive compendium of tantric ma\u1e47\u1e0dalas, including the K\u0101lacakra ma\u1e47\u1e0dala (pp. 207 ff., 299 ff.). A brief listing of the currently available texts in this series follows:<\/p>\n

BBI The Buddhist Heritage<\/em>, ed. T. Skorupski, 1989, \u00a320<\/p>\n

BBBII Indo-Tibetan Studies<\/em>, ed. T. Skorupski, 1990, \u00a325<\/p>\n

BBBIII The Rishuky\u014d<\/em>, I. Astley-Kristensen, 1991, \u00a327<\/p>\n

BIV The Cult of the Deity Vajrak\u012bla<\/em>, M. Boord, 1993, \u00a321<\/p>\n

BBV The Bodhisattvapi\u1e6daka<\/em>, U. Pagel, 1995, \u00a340<\/p>\n

BBVIII Tales of an Old Lama<\/em>, C. R. Bawden, 1997, \u00a314.50<\/p>\n

BBIX The Six Perfections<\/em>, T. Skorupski, 2002, \u00a312.50<\/p>\n

BBX Kriy\u0101sa\u1e43graha<\/em>, T. Skorupski, 2002, \u00a319.50<\/p>\n

BBXI Vajr\u0101val\u012b of Abhay\u0101karagupta<\/em>, ed. Masahide Mori, 2 Vols., 2009, \u00a350<\/p>\n

BFVI The Buddhist Forum<\/em>, Volume VI, 2001, \u00a317.50<\/p>\n

Institute of Buddhist Studies<\/p>\n

36 King Street, Tring, Herts, HP23 6BJ, U.K.<\/p>\n

Phone 01442 \/ 890 882<\/p>\n

email: ts1@soas.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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