Bulletin de l'Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient, tome XLIV, fasc. 2
Paris: Imprimerie nationale; Hanoi: Ecole française d'extrême orient, 1954. Large 8vo, pp. [4], 275-694, [2]; original printed wrappers a little toned, else near fine. Contains fifteen academic articles focusing on Tibetan studies, Yogācāra Buddhism, and Southeast Asian art, including Jacques Bacot: Titres et colophons d'ouvrages non canoniques tibétains. (An examination of non-canonical Tibetan literary colophons and titles, pp. 275–337); and Paul Demiéville: La Yogācārabhūmi de Sangharaksa. (A detailed study on the text of Sangharaksa, pp. 339–436). Jacques Bacot (1877-1965) was an explorer and pioneering French Tibetologist. He travelled extensively in India, western China, and the Tibetan border regions. He worked at the École pratique des hautes études. Bacot was the first western scholar to study the Tibetan grammatical tradition, and along with F. W. Thomas (1867–1956) belonged to the first generation of scholars to study the Old Tibetan Dunhuang manuscripts" (Wikipedia). Paul Demiéville (1894-1979) was one of the foremost sinologists of the first half of the 20th century, and "was known for his wide-ranging contributions to Chinese and Buddhist scholarship. He is known also for his studies of the Dunhuang manuscripts and Buddhism and his translations of Chinese poetry" (Wikipedia). Item #72670
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