Dear Dhivan
greetings and thank you very much for pointing this out, your are right, I should perhaps have mentioned that (I was only thinking in terms of the 4 Nikaayas/Aagamas)
Of the Dharmapada collection we have two versions preserved in Chinese translation, as well as two versions of the Udaana (for a brief survey you might consult my Encyclopedia entry on Udaana, which can be downloaded here
http://www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de/fileadmin/pdf/analayo/Udana.pdf) in each case one of the two versions combines its stanzas with prose material of a commentarial type
The Dharmapada plus commentary version, T211, has been translated into English by Charles Willemen:
Willemen, Charles 1999: The Scriptural Text: Verses of the Doctrine, With Parables, Translated from the Chinese of Fa-li and Fa-chü, (Taishº Volume 4, Number 211), BDK English Tripi?aka 10-II, Berkeley: Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research.
The Udaana(-varga) pluy commentary version, T212, has to my knowledge not been translated into a Eurpean language. I studied some aspects of it in relation to the Paali Udaana and its commentary in this paper: "The Development of the Pali Udana Collection", Bukkyo Kenkyu, 2009, vol. 37 pp. 39-72.
We also have an Udaana(-varga) commentary preserved in Tibetan, which has been edited (but not translated) by Balk:
Balk, Michael 1984: Prajñavarman's Udanavargavivara?a, Transliteration of its Tibetan version (based on the xylographs of Chone/Derge and Peking), Indica et Tibetica, Monographien zu den Sprachen und Literaturen des indo-tibetischen Kulturraumes, Arbeitsmaterialien A, Bonn: Indica et Tibetica.
Of the same texts there are also some Tocharian fragments
Sieg, E. 1933: "Bruchstück eines Udanavarga Kommentars (Udanala?kara?) im Tocharischen", in Festschrift Moriz Winternitz: 1863 - 23. Dez. - 1933 [70. Geburtstag], O. Stein et al. (ed.), Leipzig: Harrassowitz, pp. 167-173.
Besides these, we also have a version of the A.t.thakavagga of the Suttanipaata that comes together with the prose narrations that in the Paali tradition are found in the commentary on the A.t.thakavagga. An english translation of this text has been provided in two articles by Bapat, which are difficult to get hold of, but are worth the effort.
Bapat, P.V. 1945 (part 1), 1950 (part 2): "The Arthapada-Sutra Spoken by the Buddha", Visva-Bharati Annals, vol. 1 pp. 135-227 and vol. 3 pp. 1-109.
Besides these, we also have a Chinese translation of what appears to be a version of the Samantapaasaadikaa, the commentary on the Theravaada Vinaya. This, too, has been translated into English by Bapat
Bapat, P.V. 1970: ?????, Shan-Chien-P'i-P'o Sha: A Chinese Version by Sa?ghabhadra of Samantapasadika, Poona: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute.
recent publications relevant to this text that I know of are:
Heirman, Ann 2004: "The Chinese Samantapasadika and its School Affiliation", Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenl"ndischen Gesellschaft, vol. 154 pp. 371-396.
Pinte, Gurdun 2010: "On the Origin of Taisho 1462, The Alleged Translation of the Pali Samantapasadika", Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, vol. 160 no. 2 p. 435-449.
with much mettaa
Bhikkhu Anaalayo
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From: Dhivan Thomas Jones
To: Pali@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 11:06 AM
Subject: [Pali] commentaries on Aagamas
Dear Ven Anaalayo and Frank and group,
On the topic of commentaries on the Aagamas, I was reading Valerie
Roebuck's new (2010) translation of the Dhammapada yesterday (London:
Penguin). In her introduction she discusses versions of the Dhammapada,
including Chinese translations. She mentions the *Faju piyu jing*,
consisting of selected stanzas from the *Faju jing*, being a translation of
the Pali Dhammapada, together with a translation of a commentary from
Indian sources different from the Theravada one. Apparently extracts of
this Chinese version of the Dhammapada together with its commentary have
been translated into English by Samuel Beal (1878), *Texts from the
Buddhist Canon, commonly known as Dhammapada, with accompanying narratives*,
London: Trübner & Co.
I don't read Chinese, so I'm just passing on this information in case it is
of interest.
All good wishes,
Dhivan
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