Dhammajoti K.L. Reading Buddhist Sanskrit Texts: An Elementary Grammatical Guide

Buddha-dharma Centre of Hong Kong, 2014. — xii + 423 pp.Published earlier last year, this third edition continues to provide students with an elementary manual totally based on Buddhist Sanskrit texts. Illustrations of Sanskrit grammar points are drawn from Buddhist sources, and exercises are drawn from texts like Aṣṭa-sāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā, Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā, etc. The thirteen lessons are each appended with footnotes providing references to available corresponding passages across different canonical records. A Sanskrit text of Vajraccedikā, based on L. Vaidya’s Devanāgarī edition as well as E. Conze’s romanized edition, is translated at the end of the volume. This present edition has further corrected several of the typos and other lapses in previous editions.