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THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL illITVERSITY

FACULTY OF ASIAN STUDIES

DEPARTMENT OF SOUTH ASIAN ANTI BUDDHIST STUDIES

NfilUAL REPORT 1975•

General Comments, Courses and Enrolments. ' ·

The Department is mainly concerned with the Old and MJ.ddle Ind.o.Arya.n la.!10uages, i.e. Sanskrit, Pali and Pra.krit. The .three. year' course concentrates on Sanskrit, while the four.year 'honours course includes the study of Pa.li, PrakrH, Vedic and'more difficult philosophical and Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit texts. S~mJ..na.rs on' Chinese and Tibetan Buddhist texts are held for postgraduate students,

A three-year and an Honours course in Hindi is also offered under the auspices of this Department; .In addition to fluency in spoken arid \yritten Hindi - the official language of the Republic of Ind.j,a ~ the course provides a strong background in the cultUJ:.>e of Hindi ·spea.k.ihg people. An opt ional co1.iponent of readings from Urdu literature is available, which this year was taken by 7 stu~ents enrolled in Hindi II and Hindi III.

Literary Persian is offered as a single unit, but it may not be taken in the first year. In the beginnins of this year four students · enrolleJ in this unit, one as a NDNE, but two withdrew and one sat for the final ~xamination.

The total enrolment comprised one part-time M.A. candidate · and 35 undergraduates (as at 30 April 1975). Out of this enrolment of 35, 29 sat for the final examinations.

Student Participation.

Once every term this year a meetine was convened of the Depart. mental Committee uhich consists of the 6 members of academic staff and 6 students. The discussion at these meeting s mainly centered on methods of assessment.

Post-Graduate Work.

Three staff-candidates are engaged in research towards a Ph.D. degree. One full ·time Ph.D. student took up his scholarship in September.

Staff

Professor and Head of the Department

J.W. de Jong, Ph.D. (Leiden)

Reader

Luise A. Hercus, M.A. (Oxen)

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Senior Lecturer:

T. Rajapatirana, M.A. (Ceylon), Ph.D. (A.N.u.)

Lecture;;;:

R.K. Barz, B.A. (Arizona)iM.A. (Chicago); Ph.D. (Chicago)

S@or Tutors:

Bhikkhu T, ·RahuJ.a., J3.A. (Ceylon); M.A~ (Banaras); Ph.D. (Dellfi) Y.K. Ya~av, B.A., E.Ed1 (Agra); M.A. (Aligarh)

Research-Assistant (part7time) ·

(Mrs.) S.M,M, Loafs

'Staff Movements 0 .. •

The appointment of Dr. Ra.hula expires on 31 December 1975. Despite strong representation by ·the Head of the Department, the Standing Committee of the Board of the School of General Studies has informed the Department that it cannot approve the contin~atioti Qi' the post after 31 December 1975. For this r eason it is becoming increasingly difficult to offer such a wide range of options as has J been possible L~ the past. ·

Staff Activ:j.ties and Research

Professor J.W. de Jong was informed by the Secretary General of the Internat ional Association of Sanskrit Studies that he was elected by acclamation a member of the Consultative Committee of that Associat ion at its meeti ng on 13 June 1975.

!lJrofess~r J.W. de Jong was awarded a LGverhulme Visiting Fellow­ship to spend three months in India. He is attached to the Benares · Hindu Univer sity during November and December 1975 and January 1976. Apart from giving various lectures, he will study the traditional methods of teaching Sanskrit.

Mrs. L.A. Hercus continued work on Aboriginal languages in the north of South Australia under a grant from the A. R. G.C. and she also took part in an expedition with the South Australian Museum to study sacred sites in the Simpson Desert.

She accepted an invitation to lecture to students in the Depart­ment of Linguistics, S. G.S ,

Dr. R.K. Barz 's Hindi I course reached completion and has been distributed in unpublished bookform to the students in Hindi I as well as to other interested persons . It is hoped that the course textbook will be distributed to the 1976 students with Hindi sentences as wel l as the English materials in typed form . As .soon as the textbook has been fully typed, a publisher will be sought. Only the delay in the arrival of a devanagari typewriter is holding up the final typing of the book.

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Work has also progressed in the preparation of course textbooks for Hindi II and l!indi III. The preparation of a bri~f survey of the history of Hindi literature has advanced to the point -that it seems very likely that it can be ·used in the 1976 Hindi II. couroe as back­ground material .

In addition to tµe above-ment~oned preparation of course text­books, several talks accompanied.by· slides were given through the year to the pupils of Canberra primary schools. The talks were on Indian temples, showing with slides the development of Hindu temples from ancient times to the ~resent and stressing the nature of the Hindu temple as the personal house of a Hindu god, .and on Indian festivals, showing with slides the purpose of .festivals in Hindu India and the weys ,. in .~hich they .are celebrated.·

Dr. Barz1 s book The 13b,akti Sect of Vallabhac'a£Y:a has been fully compl~1t-ed: ~9- .. 111ill be coming out very soon from 'Thomson .. Press in Ne~ Delhi. ~ . ~- - ... ··--. . .... -..... - . . . . ~ - __ ,_,::: ·.; ·_..::.- ··~ ·

Dr .. T. Rajapatirana is engaged in editing the Tibeta.i."l translation of the Ja'.ti!kamala. He also was invited to.give. taJJ<;s ~i some Primary and Secondary Schools in Canberra. His talks dealt with Buddhism a.nd Buddlµ.st Festivals ,

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Dr. T. Rahula has almost completed his thesi i?r .con,sistine of a translation of a collection of Pali stories written in Ceylon, the R.asaWh.ini. ; .. , .

Mr. Y. K. Yadav attended the 11th AULL.A Workshop on Language Lea~ipg ?-Ud Teaching , held .in Sydney in Au.gu.stu1975, .nhere he gave a texlk on the teaching: of Hindi by ·video-tape. M.r . Yadav '17ill use the summer vacation period to further his research on the Poet Kumbhanadasa, spending some time in Indi a . ·

· . Dr • . :Barz , Mrs . Hercus and Mr. Mayrhofer have been meeting regularly once a ueek throughout the year to reau Gujarati .

Publications.t

de Jong, J.W. A Brief His tory of Buddhist Studies in ·Europe and America (part 2), The Eastei"Il Buddl1ist, N. S. vol . VII ( 19:;4); PP• 49~82 . , . . ·

Bukk;yo kenk;yU no rekishi [Japanese translation of A · Brief History of Buddhist Studies ancL oth.e.r Studies], Tokyo, Shunjusha Press, 1975. 208 PP• '

Tibetaanse Literatuur, Moderne Encyclopedie der Wereld­literatuur, vol . 8, ' s-Gravenhage, 1974 , PP•432b-437a. . . . Notes on the sources' arid .th~ · te~t of th~ Sang Hyang Kamaheyanan Mant ra.neya, Bi,jdragen tot de taal-, la.nd-en volkenkunde, deel 130, ' s-:-Gravenhage, 1974, pp. 465-:48G•

A propos du Nidanasa.I!IYukta, Melanges de Sinologie offerts a Monsieur Paul Demi~ville, II, Paris, 1974, pp. 137-149•

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de Jongt J;W~ Notes on the J3hiksunI-vineya of the IvTab~hikas, (cont 1dJ Buddhist Studies in.Honour of I,B. Horner:Dordrecht,

1974, PP• 63770 .

The Study of Buddhism. Problems and Perspe~tives . Studies in Indo-Asia.n Art and Culture, vol. 4 (1974), (Acharya Raghu Vira Commemoration Volume), pp.13-26.

Bu.kkyo Kenkyli.. Mond.ai to Mitoshi [Japanese t r anslation of The Study of Buddhism. Problems a.nd ·Perspectives] . Hokke:BunJsa Kenkyii, No. 1, Tokyo~ 1975, pp.1-12.

La l~ende de ~antideva, ):ndo..J:ranian Journal , XVI, 3, 1975, pp.1617182.

Review of Bernhard Kolver, Textkritische und hilo 8--= •• . sche Unte uch en zur Ra· tar des Kal~ = Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Han schriften in

Deutschland, Supplementband 12). Wiesbaden, 19'69 '­~bid,, pp,2257227· '

Review of J,F. Sta.al (ed.), A Reader on the Sanskrit G~amma.;ia.nsa Cambridge , Mass. and London, 1972 - ibid,, PP• 227 .. 229, .

Review of Herbert v. Guenther, The Tantric Vie~1 of Life, Berkeley and London, 1972 - ibid., pp.2297231·

Review of G.M. Bongard-Levin, Studies in Anc~ent IndJ;a and Central Asia (= Soviet Indology _Series 7 , Calcu~ta, 1971 7 ibid., pp.231-232.

Revieu of McDermott , A.C. Senape: An Eleventh-Century Buddhist Logic of 'Exists ', Dordrecht 1969 - Orientalisw tische Litero.t urzeitung, 69 , 11/12, 1974, Sp. 5877589. -

Revie\7 of T. Venkatacharya (ad.) 1 The Sriharicarita­-mal1aka a of Srihari Padmanabhasastrin C= The Adyar Library Series 102 • Adyar, The Adyar Library and Research Centre, 1972. - Indo-Iranian Journal, XVI,4 (1975), pp.3027303. .

Revieu of v. Raghavan, St udies on Some Concepts of the Alamkara Sastra (=The Adyar Libre..ry Series 33). Adyart The

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Adyar Library and Research Centre, 1973. Revised edition - i bid., p.303.

Revieu of Franz Laszl6, Die Parallelversion der Manu~ s~ti im Bhavi~yapurana · (:::: Abhandlungen i'Ur die Kunde des Morgenlandes 1 XL,2), Wiesbaden, 1971 - ibid., PP• 307-:-308.

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Renew of H~inz Bechert, Budd.hismus, Staat l.Uld Gesell­schaft in den Landern des Theravada-Budd.hismus, I: Grundlagen. Ceylon, Frankfurt a.m Main und Berlin, 1966. II: Birma, Kambodscha, Laos, Thailand (= Schriften des Instituts flir Asienkunde in Hamburg XVII:1-2), Wiesbaden, 19P7 7 ibid., PP• 3087310°

Re;dew of The Vi:ualak:Irti Nirdefu. Siitra (1i1ei Mo Chieh · · So .Shuo Chin0)i translated by Lu K1uan Yu (Charles Luk), Berkeley and London, 1972. 7 ibid., pp.310-311 •

Revievr of Anne-Marie Blondeau, Materia.ux ;pour l' etude de 1 1 hi lo·-ie et de 1 1 hi iatrie tib~taines (~ pa.rtu des ma.nuscrits de Touen-houang , Geneve-Paris, 1972 -ibiu., PP• 3117313·

Review of Giuseppe Tucci:, IL libro tji.betano dei morti (Bardo Todol) (= Classici delle religioni N. 22. Sezione prima diretta da Oscar Botto; Le rcli0ioni orientali) . Torino, 1972 7 ibid., pp.314-316.

an~ R.K •. Barz, RovieTI of, D.P. Kapp, Das Verbum paraba in seiner Fl.Ulktion als Sim lex und E likativum in a.yasis Padumavati Wiesbaden, 1972 · - Journal of the

Americ2.!l Oriental Society, 94 (1974 , pp.4917492·

Review of M.K. Verma , The Structure of in English and Hindi Delhi, 1971 - ibid,, . --Revieu of a 0ritical Pali Dictionary, II,7 (Copenhagen, 1971) - ibid., 95 (1975), pp.1 53-154· .-- '

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Rc~ie;1 ·of Shashi Kant, Kharavela. and ·Asoka (Delhi, 1971) .. - ibid., pp.3337334°

Texts in Victorian La.n(S'uages, Pacific Linguistics SerirS: A No. 37 - 1974 [Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of.Pacific Stui.~i,cs, A.N.u.]. pp-13-43· • ·

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*Ku.rwili,ya, Y. Bibliographic __ Notes of the Ratnaketupa.rivarta, Hok:kc bu.ilka kenkyii, 1 (T'Okyo, 1975), pp.39-45· I

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TIE J .. USTR.ALIAH NATIONJL UNIVEP..SI'i'Y

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Sanskrit II 3 4 4 2 1 1

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Hindi III 2' 1 1 1 1

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