Program

Research Programs: Translations

Period of Performance

7/1/1978 - 6/30/1979

Funding Totals

$29,795.00 (approved)
$29,795.00 (awarded)


Asanga's Ornament of the Mahayana Scripture

FAIN: RL-*1086-78

American Institute of Buddhist Studies (Amherst, MA 01002-2306)
Robert A. F. Thurman (Project Director: November 1977 to October 1990)

To provide an annotated English translation of the Mahayanasutra lamkara Ornament of the Mahayana Scriptures of Asanga (c.350-430 AD), PI will elaborate a consistent philosophically coherent set of technical terms to render the complex terminology consonant with contemporary psychological and philosophical usages.