A History of Sanskrit Grammatical Literature in Tibet, Volume 1 Transmission of the Canonical Literature
The first comprehensive survey of the important corpus of Indic literature on Sanskrit grammar, extant in Tibetan translation in the Buddhist canon.\ Core of the study is the description of the forty-seven Sanskrit grammatical treatises covering some two thousand folios in the canon. The contents of these texts and the historical information regarding their Tibetan translators are examined in detail. Further chapters are devoted to the grammatical analysis in an eighth-century Tibetan...
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The first comprehensive survey of the important corpus of Indic literature on Sanskrit grammar extant in Tibetan translation in the Buddhist canon.A systematic study of the history of the Tibetans' expertise in this central scholastic discipline in Buddhism.
AcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsNote on transliteration0Introduction1IPre-classical period: Elements of Sanskrit grammatical analysis in a ninth-century Tibetan lexical commentary (Sgra-sbyor-bam-po-gnis-pa)9IIEarliest Tibetan corpus of Sanskrit grammatical literature (CG 1-23)46IIITibetan corpus of Sanskrit grammatical literature: later additions (CG 24-47)108IVTibetan historiography on the study of Sanskrit grammar in India and Tibet166Concluding observations203Bibliography219Appendices A. Description of CG231Appendices B. Transmission-lineage of Sanskrit grammatical studies in Tibet324Appendices C. Concordance of basic verses of Vararuca-samgraha, CG 18, 26 and 39327Appendices D. Glossary of grammatical terms: Sanskrit333Appendices E. Glossary of grammatical terms: Tibetan339Indices: Sanskrit personal names341Indices: Sanskrit terms342Indices: Sanskrit titles345Indices: Tibetan personal names347Indices: Tibetan terms350Indices: Tibetan titles351Maps A. Tibet and surrounding countries355Maps B. Central Tibet356
