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The Buddhist Himalaya is one
of the several projects of the Nagarjuna Institute to
promote Buddhist studies prevalent in the Himalayan regions
viz. Nepal, India & Tibet. It aims at presenting the
articles in the areas of philosophy, Art, Iconography,
Buddhist History, Biography, Monuments and Manuscripts. In
this present journal the articles have been chosen to meet
the aim in view
One of the characteristic
feature of this journal is the publication of rare Buddhist
Sanskrit sutra called "Arya Anityata Sutram" we have found
this manuscript in "Dharani Sangraha" from the private
collection of Mr. Padmajyoti Dhakhwa of Patan.
The text "Arya Anityata Sutra"
was translated from Sanskrit into Tibetan by Surendra Bodhi
and Ye ses sde and has been numbered 310 mDo-sde section in
"A complete catalogue of the Tibetan Buddhist Canons" [Kanjur
and Tanjur] published by Tohoku Imperial University, Sendai,
Japan, 1934. We have published this text for the first time
unedited and left to the scholars for further critical
study. We promise to publish other unpublished sutras or
manuscripts in our subsequent issues of the journal.
We would like to hear reader's
comments and suggestions for the further development of the
journal. It welcomes the submissions of articles and
research papers in English adequately documented. We
apologize for any mistakes in this journal if there be any.
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