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Eastern Conference , p. 134 ff., idem, The Home of Tantric Buddhism, BC Law Volume,
Calcutta, 1945, I, 354361); S. K. From, The Buddhist Tantric Literature of Bengal (New-
Indian Antiquary, I, Bombay, 1938-1939, p. 1-23); Sankrtyayana Rahula, Recherches
bouddhiques: I. Les origines du Mahayana, 11. L'origine du 84 Siddhas Vajrayanaet them
(Journal Asiatique, 1934, p. 195-230) G. Tucci, Animadversiones indicae, passim, idem,
Tibetan Painted Scroll (Rome, 1939), p. 209-249 (p. 211 et seq., Compared with
Gnosticism), idem, Buddhist Notes (Melanges chinois et bouddiques, IX, 1951, p. 173-
220), H. von Glasenapp, Tantrismus und Saktismus (Ostasiatische ZeMschrift, XII, 1936,
p. 120-133), idem, Die Enstechung des Vajrayana (Zeit. Deutsche Morgan. Gesell., 1936,
p. 546-572); idem Buddhistische Mysterien ( 1940, trans, franc. 1944), idem, der Ein
Buddhistische InUiationsrHus Javanisch Mittelalters (Tribes, NF, II-III, 1952-1954, p.
259-274; it is the San Hyan Kamahayanam mantranaya, Tantric texts translated into
Javanese in the thirteenth century, edited by J. Kats in 1910 and reissued in 1935 by
Wulff K), L. de la Vallee-Poussin, Notes of bibliographic bouddhique (Melanges chinois
et bouddhiques, V. 1937, p. 277 et seq.). About Tantrism in China and Tibet: Lin
Likouang, Punyodaya (Na-t'i), a Tantrism in propagateur du Chine et au Cambodge to Go
~ poker Hhian-Tsang (Journal Asiatique, 1935, p. 83 -100), Chou Yi-Liang, Tantrism in
China (Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, VIII, 1945, p. 241-332), Li An-Che, Rninmapa,
the early form of Lamaism (Journal Royal Asiatic Society, 1948, p. 142-163) and
especially G. Tucci, Tibetan Painted Scrolls, passim (see also Indo Tibetan, I, p. 93-135,
III, p. 75 on Tattvasamgraha).
About Nagarjuna: good bibliography in the article Nalinaksha Dutt, Indian Historical
Quarterly, 1931, 633-653; add annotated bibliographies by L. de la Vallee-Poussin,
Melanges chinois et bouddhiques, I, p. 383, n. 2, 392, III, 365, 374, V, 270. See
especially Etienne Lamotte, Le Traite de la Grande Vertu de Sagesse de Nagarjuna
(Mdhaprajna-paramitasastra). Translation with commentary, I-II (Louvain, 1944, 1949)
and the analysis of P. Demieville, Journal Asiatique, 1950, p. 375-495. For the traditions
concerning physician and alchemist Nagarjuna, see Jean Filliozat, La Doctrine classique
de la medecine indienne (Paris, 1949), p. 9, 12. Also S. Levi, Un nouveau document sur
le bouddhisme de basse epoque dans Vlnde (Bulletin London School Oriental Studies,
VI, 1931, p. 417-429), p. 420,421, and our note VII, 2.
Among the recent editions of Buddhist tantric texts, let us note: Sadho-namala (ed. B.
Bhattacaryya, 1928, Gaekwad Oriental Series), B. Battacaryya, Two Vayrayana Works
(Gaekwad Or. Ser, 1929: includes Prajfiopayaviniscayasiddhiy the Jnanasiddhi); Louis
Finot, Sanskrit manuscripts of Sadhanas retrouvds en Chine (JournalAsiatique, 1934, 2,
p. 1-86, editing and small Translation of texts tantric), P. C. Baggchi, Kaulajnananimaya
and some minor texts of the school of Matsyendranatha (Calcutta Oriental Series, 1934:
there are three short treatises: Akulavrratantra, Kulanandatantra, Jnanakarika)
Sekoddesatika af Nadapada (ed. Mario Carelli, COS, Baroda, 1941).
For the Hindu Tantra, Tantrik Texts show edited under the direction of Arthur Avalon
(Sir John Woodroffe) from 1913 (twenty volumes in 1952). The most important are:
Kulamava Tantra (vol. V of the Tantrik Texts, edited by Taranata Vidyaratna, London,
1917: text of capital importance for the Kaula school); KdivUasa Tantra (vol. VI, 1917,
edited by PC Tarkatirtha); Mahanirwna-Tantra (trans.: The Tantra af the Great
Liberation, 2nd ed., Madras, 1927), Tantra-Tattva (trans.: The Principles of Tantra, 2
vol., London, 1914-1916); Satcakranirupana and Padukapancaka (trans.: Serpent Power.