Bibliotheca Polyglotta

Dūnhuáng; city in the Gansu province of China home to a major cave complex where a large number of manuscripts and artifacts have been retrieved; see St. and The International Dunhuang Project.

Dvr -

Drāmiḍāvidyārājā (sūtra)

E -

Newark MS Kanjur

EBC -

E.B. Cowell

ed. -

editor

EHJ -

E.H. Johnston

Eji -

Ejima, Yasuhori

Eng -

English

F -

Phug brag MS Kanjur (catalogued by Jampa Samten, 1992)

G -

Ganden (dGa' ldan) or "Golden Manuscript" Tanjur

Gān -

Gāndhārī

Gb -

sGra sbyor bam po gñis pa

Ger -

German

Ggn -

Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā

Gp -

Gaṅgottaraparipṛcchā (sūtra)

GRETIL -

Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian languages

H -

Lhasa (lHa sa) Kanjur (catalogued by Jikidō Takasaki, 1965)

Har -

Harrison, Paul

Hop -

Hopkins, Jeffrey

Hṛd -

Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya

IOL -

India Office Library

IRIAB -

The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University.

J -

Lithang (Li thaṅ) or 'Jaṅ Sa tham Kanjur (catalogued by Yoshiro Imaeda, 1982-84)

JK -

Johnston, E.H. and A. Kunst (1978)

Kg -

bKa’ ’gyur (Tibetan Buddhist canon of the Buddha's words), Derge edition, references to volume (Tibetan class and syllable numbering), page and line.

K -

Peking edition of the Kanjur prepared in 1684/92 under the Kangxi emperor

Khvs -

Khaḍgaviṣāṇasūtra (Khaggavisāṇasutta)

Kpv -

Kāśyapaparivarta (sūtra)

Kuṣ -

Kuṣāṇa

Laṅk -

Laṅkāvatārasūtra

Lat -

Latin

LVP -

Louis de la Vallée Poussin

L -

London MS Kanjur (listed by Eric. D Grinestead, 1967)

M -

Peking edition of the Mongolian Kanjur (catalogued by Louis Ligeti, 1942-44)

Ma -

Madhyamakāvatāra (Entering the Middle Way) by Candrakīrti (7th century)

Mabh -

Madhyamakāvatārabhāṣya (Auto-Commentary to Entering the Middle Way) by Candrakīrti (7th century)

Manj -

Mañjuśrīvikrīḍitasūtra (sūtra)

Mat -

Marion L. Matics

Maṭ -

Madhyamakāvatāraṭīkā by Jayānanda (11th century)

Min -

I.P. Minayeff

Mmk -

Mūlamadhyamakakārikā by Nāgārjuna.

Mon -

Mongolian

MonT -

Mongolian Tanǰur, Peking, 1748.

MS -

Manuscript

Msa -

Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra by Asaṅga/Maitreya and Bhāṣya by Vasubandhu.

MSV -

mūlasarvāstivādavinaya

Mvy -

Mahāvyutpatti

MVy -

Maitreyavyākaraṇa

N -

Narthang (sNar thaṅ) Kanjur (listed by Shōdō Nagashima, 1975) and Tanjur (listed by Taishun Mibu, 1967)

NPDh -

Nirvikalpapraveśadhāraṇī

O -

O rgyan gliṅ or Tawang MS Kanjur

p -

pañjikā (commentary)

Pāl -

Pāli

PP -

Prahlad Pradhan, K. P.

PP -

Prajñāpāramitā

Pras -

Pratyutpannabuddhasamādhisūtra

Prāt -

Prātimokṣasūtra

Pro -

Proto-Buddhāvataṃsaka (also known as Buddhanāmanirdeśa, BA chapter 11)

Pru -

Pruden, Leo M.

PTS -

Pali Text Society

Q -

Peking edition of Kanjur and Tanjur prepared in 1737 under the Qianlong emperor; also the modern photographic reprint of teh Peking edition, which is based on a combination of the 1717/20 and 1737 issues (reprinted and catalogued in The Tibetan Tripitaka, 1955-1961)

Rā -

Ratnāvalī by Nāgārjuna

Rac -

Igor de Rachewiltz

Raj -

Rajapatirann, Tissa

rec -

reconstruction

Rgs -

Ratnaguṇasaṃcayagāthā

Rgvbh -

Ratnagotravibhāga by Asaṅga

RK -

Ratnakūṭa/Mahāratnakūṭa

Roy -

Roy, Sitaram

S -

Stog (sTog) Palace MS Kanjur (catalogued by Tadeusz Skorupski, 1985)

Ś -

reconstructed from Śong stons’s Tibetan translation.

Sai -

Akira Saito

San -

Sanskrit

Saund -

Saundarananda by Aśvaghoṣa

Sddhmp -

Saddharmapuṇḍarīka

Sdhan -

Sarvadharmāpravṛttinirdeśa

SGBSL -

Study Group on Buddhist Sanskrit Litterature

SOR -

SERIE ORIENTALE ROMA

Śpś -

Śatapañcāśatka (= Prasādapratibhodhava) of Mātṛceṭa

St. -

Manuscripts retreived from Dūnhuáng by Auriel Stein; catalogued in La Vallée Poussin (1962).

Suv -

Suvarṇavarṇāvadāna (sūtra)

ṭ -

ṭīkā (commentary)

T -

Tokyo or Kawaguchi MS Kanjur

T. -

大正新修大藏經, Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō, Tokyo 1926-34, references to text no., page and line.

tegin -

tegin (TYKYN) - "the prince", Uighur abbreviated title of the History of the Princes Kalyāṇaṃkara and Pāpaṃkara

Tg -

bsTan ’gyur (Tibetan Buddhist canon of secondary litterature), Derge edition, references to volume (Tibetan class and syllable numbering), page and line.

Tgs -

Tathāgatagarbhasūtra (sūtra)

Tib -

Tibetan

Tns -

Tārānamaskāraikaviṃśatistotra

Toh -

Tohoku Catalogue number; see Ui, Suzuki, Kanakura and Tada (1934), A Complete Catalogue of The Tibetan Buddhist Canons (Bkaḥ-ḥgyur and Bstan-ḥgyur).

tr. -

translator

Triṃś -

Triṃśikāvijñapti by Vasubandhu