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THE AUSTPJILIAN .. J nIONAL U!.'!IVEP.SITI

f ACULTY OF AS I AN STUDIES

DEPARTI'.ENT OF SOUL-I 1'.SIAN AN~ BUDD~HST STUDIES

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General Connnents, Courses and Enrolments

The Department is mainly concerned with the Old and Middle Indo-Aryan languages, i.e. Sanskrit , Pali and Prakrit . The three-year course concentrates on Sanskrit, while the four-year honours course includes the study of Pali, Prakrit, Vedic and more difficult philosophical and Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit texts. Seminars 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 Departl!ent. In addition to fluency in spoken and written Hindi - the official language of the Republic of India - the course provides a strong background in the culture of Hindi speaking people. An optional component of readings from Urdu literature is available, which this year was taken by students enrolled in Hindi II and Hindi III.

Literary Persian was offered this year for which two NDE students enrolled - both withdrew , one in Jtme and one in August - due to pressure of other study commitments.

The total enrolment comprised 25 tm.dergraduates (as at 30 April 1977). Out of this enrolment 21 sat for the final examination .

Student Participation.

Once every term this year a neeting was convened of the Departmental CotIJI!littee which consistod this year of 4 I!lerrbers of the academic staff and 4 students. The discussion> at these 1'.leetings ~inly center on methods of assessment. As last year, students generally favour continuous assessment, but in view of the nature of the subjects , end-of-year examinations are preferred, though the progress of students during the year is taken into consideration when deciding the examination results.

Postgraduate Research.

One staff candidate in engaged in research towards a Ph.D. degree, whereas the Department supervises four full-time Ph.D. students, all of whom are scholarship holders. A sixth student enrolled for the degree of Ph.D. (full-time, private) obtain2d permission to submit a thesis for an M.A. instead of a Ph.D. A former staff candidate who has joined the University of Melbourne continues his work towards a Ph . D. degree. Of the scholarship holders : Mr. G.Schopen hopes to complete his Ph.D. thesis in the course of 1978. During 1977 he published an article and a very long review (s ee publications) ; he also prepared for publication another nvo articles and a revie•v ; Mr. P. Harrison wrote an article and a review which will be published in 1978 ~ ~r. Tso Sze-bong arrived in January 1977 to take up his scholarship - three of his articles were published this year; Mr.H.Matsu­mura arrived in June of this year. He is engaged in the study of Avadana texts on the basis of Sanskrit nanuscripts from Gilgit.

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Dr. Y. Kuru~dya inforoed us that his Ph.D. thesis, which he submitted in 1974, has been accepted for publication by a publisher in Tokyo.

One of our Honours students obtained a Fullbright and University of Chicago Fellowship for study towards a Ph.D. in Hindi and Urdu, which he took up in August •

Staff

Professor and Head of the Depart~ent

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

Reader

Luise A. Hercus, M.A. (Oxon), Ph.D. (A.N. U.)

Senior Lecturers

. T. Rajapatirana, lt.A. (Ceylon), Ph.D. (A.N. U.) ·R.K. Barz, B.A. (Arizona), M.A. (Chicago), Ph.D. (Chicago)

Senior ·Tutor

Y.K. Yadav, B.A., B.Ed. (Agra), M. ,. (Aligarh)

Research Assistant (part-tine)

Mrs. S.M.M. Loofs

Staff Movements:

Dr. T. Rajapatirana was on study-leave during 1977.

Staff Activities and Research

In January/February Professor J .r~. de Jong attended the XVIIIth AULLA Congress which was held in Wellington, Tew Zealand. He continued his research in Budclhist and Indian studies (see Publications).

We are pleased to report that Dr. L.A. Hercus's A.R.G.C. grant was renewed, enabling her to continue her research on nearly extinct flboriginal languages. She gave a lecture on Aboriginal languages to students of the Departrent of Linguis ties, S. G.S. She continued work on Arabana-Wanganuru: one of the main infornants came to Canberra for three weeks in February. She assisted the South Australian :MuseUI'l in the recording of Aboriginal sacred sites to the east of Oodnadatta, S ./\.. and submitted information on the nythology of mound springs in Arabana country to the Departnent of Environment in South Australia. She also assisted the Education Office of the National ?-<useur.i of Victoria in coffi?iling teachin? t!l.aterial on Aboriginal languages.

lbroughout the year a regular class in Vedic was held with Honours students and she continued work on Apabhrarnsa texts with Dr. C.M. Mayrhofer. Dr. Hercus also supervised two postgraduate students in the Department of Linguistics S.G.S., whereas one student in that Department completed an M.A. sub-thesis on Yaraldi, largely based on waterials provided by Dr. Rercus .

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Dr. R.K. Barz was to have attended the Second New Zealand Conference on Asian Studies held in May this year in Christchurch, but the strike by airtraffic controllers prevented h:.m fro!!l leaving Au tralia. He had prepared a paper to be read at this Conference under the title of 'Pragmatic Bhakti in the poetry of Gur~ N~nak'. This paper will now be published in the Journal of Sikh Studies in February 1978.

Dr. Barz was in-•li t0d ar.J gave two lectures in the South Asian Civilization course of the Depart!!lent of Asian Civilizations on Hindi literature. For the Religious Studies secticn he gave a total of four lectures on Hinduism.

As has become customary over the past years, primary and secondary schools invite staff met!Ders to give talks on Hinduism and/or Buddhism, and at least five such talks, dealing with Hindi culture, were given by Dr. · Barz. The popularity of these talks is gratifying - on one occasion Dr. Barz was asked by a nunber of schoolchildren for his autograph !

Dr. Barz attended a Conference on Translation organised by the Humanities Research Centre and read some of his own translations of Hindi poetry with connnentary. The Educational Broadcasting station 2XX twice featured Dr. Barz in 30-minute ~ rograt!U!J.es, in which he talked about the poetry of Mirabai and surdas.

The two members engaged in the teaching of Hindi in the Department have compiled a reader with vocabulary and cultural notes for the use of intermediate and advanced level students of Hindi. It will be introduced in the course cornnencing in ~.arch 1978.

Publications:

de Jong, J.W. F.B.J. Kuiper: Bib liography 1967-1976, Inda-Iranian Journal, 19 (1977), pp.1-4.

The Ti.:n-huang i.'"1nuscripts of the Tibetan Ramaya~a story, ibid., PP· 37-8§._ Jata~:araala II.17, i_bid., p.97.

Yamaguchi Susu.,u 27.1.1895 - 21.10.1976, ibid., pp~ 99-103.

The Bod.~ioatt·;avade.nakalpalata and the Saddantavadana, Buddhist Thought and A, ian Civilisation. Essays in°Honor of Herbert V. Guenther on· is Sixtieth Birthday, Emeryville, Cal., 1977, pp.27-38.

Sanskrit Fra~:r-G~: ts of the Kasyapapari varta, Bei trap,e zur Indien­Fo rs ch u.'"lg !!:ms t lfaldschr!!idt zum 80. Geburtstag gewidmet. [Ver­offentlichungen des Museums flir Indische Kunst Berlin, Band 4], 1977s pp.247-255.

Notes on the Second chapter of the Madhyantavibhagatika, Central Asiatic Journal XXI, 2 [In honour of the 65th birthday of Pro~essor Tielout Hoffmann], 1977, pp.111-117.

Peview of the Mahayana ¥.ahaparinirvana-Sutra. A Complete Trans­lation of the Classical Chinese Language in 3 volumes. Annotated and with Full Glossary, Index, and Concordance by Kosho Yamamoto. The Karin Buudhological Series No.5. 1be Karinbunko, Oyama, Ono-ku, Ube Ci'.:y, Yamaguchi-ken. - Th~ Eastzrn j3udd..~ist, N.S., vol. IX, no.2, October, 1976, pp.134-136. .. ./4

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Review of R.Gnoli (tr.), Luce delle Sacre Scritture (Tantraloka) di Abhinavagu?ta [= Classici delle religione N.25]. Torino, 1972. - Inda-Iranian Journal, XVIII, (1976), pp.298-300.

Review of L.Sternbach, :t-1'.aha-subhasita-sangraha. Volume I: a 0

- anve 0 [= Vishveshvaranand Indological Series 64]. ~oshiar­pur, 1974. - ibid., pp.300-302.

'Review of R.O .Meisezahl , 'Smasanavidhi des L\iyI. Textkri tik nach der tibetischen Version des Koilll!lentars L\iy!padabhisama­vrtti Sarobarodaya narna von Tathagatavajra', Zentralasiatische Studien r (1974), 9-127. - ibid., pp.305-307.

Review of Kanmesha Shukla (ed.)' Sravakabhumi of acarya Asanga [=Tibetan Sanskrit Works Series, vol. XIV]. Patna, 1973. -ibid., pp.307-310.

Review of ~akasaki Ji~ido, Nyoraizo-shiso formation of the tathagatagarbha theory]. ibid., pp. 311-315 .

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Review of Heinz Zimniermann, Die Subhasita-ratna-karandaka-katha (dem Aryasura zureschrieben) und ihre.tibetische tlbersetzun~. [= Fr<;iburger Eeitr!!ee zur Indologie, Band 8]. Tliesbaden, 1975. - ibid., op.316-320.

Review of Ria Kloppenborg, The PaccekabudCha. A Buddhist Ascetic . A Buddhist Ascetic. !! Study of the concept of the paccekabuddha in Pali canonical and coII!I!lentarial literature [= Orientalia Rheno-Traiectina, vol. 20]. Leiden, 1974. - ibid., pp.322-324.

Review of The S~tra on the Foundation of the Buddhist Order (Catusparisatsutra) transl. by Ria Xloppenborg [= Religious Texts

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Translation Series Nisaba, volume one]. Leiden, 1973. -ibid. ' pp. 324-32 7.

Review of Horiuchi Kanjin (.:d.), Jonzokan taisho Shoz Kongo­chogyo no kenkyu. Bonpon koteihon (ge). Koyasan, M:hkkyo bunka kenkyujo, 1974. - ibid., vol. XIX (1977), pp.125-127.

Revie•·1 of Charles S. Prebish, Buddhist Monastic Discipline: The Sanskrit Pratimok~a Sutras of the Mahasaipg!likas and MUlasarvasti­vadins, University Park and London, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1975, - ibid., pp.127-130.

Review of Pierre Python, Vinaya-viniscaya-Upali-pariprccha [=Collection Jean Przyluski, tome V]. Paris, 1973. -"ibid., pp.131-135.

Tensc-markin? in Gunu pronounsj Papers in Australian Linguistics, no.10 (1976)~ pp.33.:55. (with S. T.Jurm).

(with P.Austin an<l ~. Ellis), 'Fruit of the Eyes' Semantic Diffusion in the Lakes languages of South australia, ibid., pp .5 7-77.

F~view of A Critical Pali Dictionary, fasc.8 (Copenhagen, 1973) -Journal of the 1\merican Oriental Society, 96 (1976), pp.460-461 •

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Review of >tudies in iastorical Sanskrit Lexicography. Edited by A.M.Ghatage, R.N.Dan<lckar, ~.A.Mehendale. Poona, 1973 - Indo­Iranian Journal XVIII (1976) , pp.ll~-117.

Review of Hemann 13err,er, Das Yasin-Burushaski. Wiesbaden, 1974. -ibid., pp.122-123.

Review of ¥..anfre<l ~ayrhofer, Die ~rier im vor<leren Orient - ein Mythos ?, Wien, 1974. - ibid.~ pp.291-293.

Review of Buddhist Studies in Honour of LB.Horner. Editors: L.Cousins, A.Kunst, K.R.llorman, Dor<lrecht, 1974 - il:>id., pp. 294-296.

Rajapatirana, T.,

Barz, R.JL

Schopen G.R.

Review of ft . Critical Pali Dictionary, Volume II, fas c. 8, Roy.al Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. 1973. - Indo­Iranian Journal XVIII (1976), p.140.

The poetry of Guru Nana~ , Desh Videsh, Journal of the India Australia L\ssociation of Can~erra, lo. III, vol.!, January 1977, pp.15-18.

An Introduction to Hindi and Urdu, The Faculty of Asian Studies, A.N.U. Press, 1977.

Hinduism - the Hindu way of life. Bulletin of Christian Life, no. 74, August 1977, 19 pp.

Sukhavati as a C'.enerelized Reli~ious Goal in Sanskrit Mahayana Sutra Literature, Inda-Iranian Journal YIX (1977), pp.177-210.

Review of E. Conze, The Larg.:? Sutra on Perfect Wisdom with the Divisions of the AbhisarnayalankarR, Berkeley, 1975. - ibid., pp.135-152.

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Tso Sze-bong Chiu T'ang-shu li seng-chuan chih an-shih tso-yung, Nan-yang fo-chiao 98 (Singapore, 1977), pp. 8-13. [On the biographies of HsUan-tsang, Shen-hsiu and I-hsing in the Chiu T'ang-shu.]

Chunc--kuo fo-ciao ch'iu-fa shih tsa-k 1 ao, Fo-kuang hsUeh-pao 2 (Taipei, 1977), pp.62-82 [Notes on the Chinese Buddhist pilgrims to India.]

Shu-mu ta-wen so-chU fo-hsileh ju-m2n shu-nu hsli-tiao, Nan-yang fo-hsUeh 102 (1977), po.8-11 [Sup~ler.J.ents to the section on Buddhisn in the bibliography 'Shu-nu t11-wen' COP1piled by Chang Chih-tung (1837-1909).]

Garlington, W. The Baha' i l<'aith in M11hrn, Religion in South Asia, ed. by G.A.Oddle, t1anohar , Her; Delhi, 1977, pp .101-117.

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TifE AUSTRALIA.T\l NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF SOUTH ASIAN AND BUDDHIST STUDIES Analysis of Student Performance

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Subject Enrolled Sit ting Wastage Failure Sitting High Dis- Distinction Credit Pass Pass Fail

as at 30.4. 77

Sanskrit I 5 5 1

Sanskrit II 1 11

Sanskrit TII 1 1

Sanskrit III H 1 1

Sanskrit III HO l 1

Hindi I 2 2

Hindi II 5 42

Hindi II H 1 i Hindi III 3 1 23 1

Hindi III H 2 2

Lit.Persian I 2 2

1. withdrawn 7.7.77 2. one student transferred from Pass to Honours 3. one NDNE; one ABS/~

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Y..as ters Degree

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with merit

1 N.A. 1 1

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continuing; one student changed his enrolment fron~.D. to 1.A ..