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Purpose of the Publications
Promotion of Buddhist studies centering on the Lotus Sutra
Since 1997, in cooperation with various institutions from around the world that preserve precious Lotus Sutra manuscripts, as well as prominent experts and scholars, the Institute of Oriental Philosophy (IOP) and the Soka Gakkai have been involved in publishing the Lotus Sutra Manuscript Series, including facsimile editions and romanized texts, which help promote Buddhist studies, in particular further studies of early Mahayana Buddhism centering on the Lotus Sutra. From 1997 to 2004, 16 items have been published as the manuscript series.
Part of the background leading up to this series was the fact that the president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI) and founder of the IOP, Daisaku Ikeda, was presented with several previous reproductions and microfilms of Lotus Sutra manuscripts by various institutions and individuls.
Regarding the critical editions of the Sanskrit Lotus Sutra, among the pioneering works that have been published to date are the Kern-Nanjo edition (1908-1912), the Wogihara-Tsuchida edition (1934-1935), and the Dutt edition (1953). From the contemporary standard of the discipline, critical editions that are more precise and reliable are required to enable future research efforts. One of the purposes of the series publications is to provide basic data for editing such new critical editions.
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| Nepalese group | ①Sanskrit Lotus Sutra Manuscript from the National Archives of Nepal (No. 4-21), Facsimile Edition (1998) |  |
Preface Foreword Acknowledgements 1 Acknowledgements 2 |
| ②Sanskrit Lotus Sutra Manuscript from the Nationla Archives of Nepal (No. 4-21), Romanized Text 1 (2001) |  |
Preface | |
| ③Sanskrit Lotus Sutra Manuscript from the National Archives of Nepal (No. 4-21), Romanized Text 2 (2004) |  |
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| ④Sanskrit Lotus Sutra Manuscripts from Cambridge University Library (Add. 1682 and Add. 1683), Facsimile Edition (2002) |  |
Foreword Introduction Acknowledgements |
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| ⑤Sanskrit Lotus Sutra Manuscript from Cambridge University Library (Add. 1684), Romanized Text (2010) |  |
Acknowledgements | |
| ⑥Sanskrit Lotus Sutra Manuscript from the University of Tokyo General Library (No. 414), Romanized Text (2003) |  |
Foreword Acknowledgements |
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| ⑦Sanskrit Lotus Sutra Manuscript from the Royal Asiantic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (No. 6), Romanized Text (2007) |  |
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| ⑧Manuscrit sanscrit du Sûtra du Lotus de la Société asiatique (N° 2), Texte romanisé [Sanskrit Lotus Sutra Manuscript from the Société Asiatique (No. 2), Romanized Text] (2008) |  |
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| ⑨Sanskrit Lotus Sutra Manuscript from the British Library (Or. 2204), Facsimile Edition (2009) |  |
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| ⑩Sanskrit Lotus Sutra Manuscript from the British Library (Or. 2204), Romanized Text (2011) | |
Preface | |
| ⑪Sanskrit Lotus Sutra Manuscript from the Asiatic Society, Kolkata (No. 4079) Romanized Text (2014) |  |
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| ⑰Sanskrit Lotus Sutra Manuscript from the National Archives of Nepal (No. 5-144), Romanized Text (2017) |  |
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| Gilgit group | ⑫Gilgit Lotus Sutra Manuscripts from the National Archives of India, Facsimile Edition (2012) |  |
Acknowledgements Foreword Preface 1 Preface 2 The Saddharmapundarikasutra in Gilgit |
| Central Asian group | ⑬ Sanskrit Lotus Sutra Fragments from the Lüshun Museum Collection, Facsimile Edition and Romanized Text (1997) |  |
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| ⑭Fragments of a Manuscript of the Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra from Khādaliq (2000) |   |
Preface 1 Preface 2 Foreword Greetings |
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| ⑮Sanskrit Lotus Sutra Manuscripts from the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Facsimile Edition (2013) (SI P/5 is also known as the Petrovsky Manuscript.) |
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A Saddharmapundarikasutra Manuscript from Khotan Acknowledgements Foreword 1 Foreword 2 Foreword 3 |
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| Xixia version | ⑯Xixia Version of the Lotus Sutra from the Collection of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Science (2005) |   |
Preface Editor's Preface Foreword Greetings |
| ⑱Tangut Version of the Lotus Sutra in the Collection of Princeton University Library, Facsimile, Text and Linguistic Studies (2018) |  |
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| Critical Edition | ⑲A Critical Edition of the Sanskrit Lotus Sutra Based on Gilgit-Nepalese Manuscripts (C3 Collated Text) (2019) |  |
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| ⑳A Critical Edition of Sanskrit Lotus Sutra C4 with Comparison Readings from Nepalese, Gilgit and Central Asian Manuscripts (2023) |  |