Reaearches in Indian and Buddhist Philosophy

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Reaearches in Indian and Buddhist Philosophy:
Essays in Honour of Professor Alex Wayman
Reviewed by Edwin Gerow
The Journal of the America
Vol.117 No.1
Pp.225-226
Jan-March 1997
COPYRIGHT 1997 American Oriental Society

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This Festschrift, dedicated to one of the most original and
controversial scholars of our day, contains a number of important
papers by a distinguished panoply of Indianists. The papers testify,
in their seriousness, to the respect in which the honoree is held.
The selection is unusually wide-ranging. The papers are grouped into
five sections, three of which are "Buddhist" (on "Karma," on
"Dependent Origination," and on "Miscellaneous" subjects), one each
"Jain" and "Hindu." With a perhaps tongue-in-cheek sense of Buddhist
notions of "order," the "miscellaneous" section begins the volume -
and here are found some of the best papers, including those of Andre
Bareau, on Asanga's list of the asamskrtadharmah; Hajime Nakamura,
on "The Seven Principles of the Vajjian Republic"; and Michael Hahn,
who provides an extensive and very circumspect critique of Mark
Tatz's views on Candragomin. The three substantial papers on karma
are by Shinjo Kawasaki, Had Shankar Prasad, and T. R. Sharma.
Particularly worthy of note are the three on "dependent
origination": Akira Hirakawa's on the relation between dhatu and
pratityasamutpada; Collett Cox's lengthy review of the treatment of
that notion in Sarvastivadin abhidharma texts, and George R. Elder's
discussion of it in Buddhist Tantra. Padmanabha Jaini and M. A.
Dhaky grace the Jaina section with essays on Bhavasena (with text
and translation of his Bhuktivicara) and the Dasavaikalika Sutra.
The "Hindu" section is quite amorphous - again, an ironic comment? -
but mostly devoted to "Hindu" exegetical questions: K. K. Raja
discusses the many similarities in the Buddhist and Mimamsa views on
laksana; Kamaleshwar Bhattacharya treats (very succinctly, even
secretively) the grammarians' treatment of supposedly otiose
possessive suffixes on already "possessive" bahuvrihi compounds; an
extremely informative essay by R. C. Dwivedi emphasizes the relative
independence of Kasmira Saiva "advaita" vis-a-vis Samkara's mainline
"advaita" - Dwivedi notes, inter alia, that there is no evidence
that Abhinava either knew of Samkara's work or accepted the Brahma
Sutras as authoritative; an essay by the editor, R. K. Sharma,
follows, on " Language and Metaphor in Indian Stotra." Even Ayurveda
gets its due, with a note by Bhagwan Dash (curiously unattributed,
except in the table of contents) on pitta and agni. A long article
by R. V. Joshi on aham-artha closes the volume.
A biography and bibliography of the honoree are appended. The
presentation of the volume is unusually soignee. A jarring note
(given the prevailingly international cast of contributors to the
volume) is provided by a letter from Murray Emeneau, one of Wayman's
teachers at Berkeley, regretting that he cannot contribute, which is
here published as a "blessing" (p. xi).
E.G.