Chronicle of the Butön

Tibetan name
Tibetan script : བུ་ སྟོན་ ཆོས་ འབྱུང
Wylie transliteration : bu ston chos' byung
Other spellings: Butön Chöchung
Chinese name
Simplified : 布顿 佛教 史
Pinyin : Budun Fojiao shi

The Chronicle of Buton ( . Tib Bu-ston chos' byung ) is a history of Buddhism in India , Nepal and Tibet of Buton Rinchen Drup ( bu ston rin chen grub ; 1290-1364) from the Shalu school of Tibetan Buddhism .

The work was completed in 1322. It is still held in high regard by Tibetan and Mongolian monastic scholars and is one of the most important source works on the history of Tibetan Buddhism.

The structure of the work differs from the History of Buddhism in India ( rgya gar chos' byung ) by Taranatha (1575–1634) from the Jonang School , published in 1608 . It consists of three parts. The actual presentation of history takes a back seat to a systematic review of all aspects of Buddhist literature, insofar as this was preserved in Tibet at the beginning of the 14th century. It begins with the life of Buddha Shakyamuni and ends with the Tibetan Lotsawas and Indian Pandits , life stories of many Buddhist masters of Indian Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism from Butön's own time and the more recent past (12th and 13th centuries). The actual story is followed by a systematic catalog of the works, authors and translations of all literature contained in the Kanjur and Tanjur collections of the old edition of the Narthang Monastery . Butön was one of the editors of this complete collection of the Tibetan Buddhist Canon . The first part of the work is a synthesis of everything that is directly or indirectly related to Buddhism. All sacred and profane literature is presented, divided into periods, schools and other subjects.

The work was translated into English by Eugen Obermiller (1901–1935).

expenditure

• Lhasa wood print
• bu ston chos' byung gsung rab rin po che'i mdzod . Beijing, Zhōngguó Zàngxué chūbǎnshè 中国 藏 学 出版社, 1991 ( tibetbook.com.cn )

Translations

English

• Obermiller, E .: The history of Buddhism (Chos ḥbyung) by Bu-ston. I The Jewelery of Scripture, II The history of Buddhism in India and Tibet. Harrassowitz 1931-2. Reprint 1986, New Delhi: Sri Satguru Publications.

Chinese

• Bùdūn dàshī 布敦 大师: Fójiào dàbǎozàng lùn . 佛教 大 宝藏 论. Beijing, Mínzú chūbǎnshè 民族 出版社, 1986. (Translator: Guō Héqīng 郭 和 卿).
• Budun fojiao shi布顿 佛教 史

literature

• János Szerb : Bu ston's History of Buddhism in Tibet . Contributions to the cultural and intellectual history of Asia 5, Vienna 1990.
• ZHDCD (Article: bu ston chos' byung )
• Dan Martin, Yael Bentor (Eds.): Tibetan Histories: A Bibliography of Tibetan-Language Historical Works (London, Serindia 1997), ISBN 0906026431 (No. 72) - ( Addenda et Corrigenda )

See also

• Shalu
• Chöchung / Chöjung ( chos' byung )

Web links

• Jinnian faxian de 'Budun fojiao shi' Mengwen yiben pingjie (Chinese)

References and footnotes

1. ↑ Kanjur ( bKa '' gyur ) and Tanjur ( bsTan 'gyur )