Author:Bunyiu Nanjio

Bunyiu Nanjio
(1849–1927)

Bunyiu Nanjio

Works

• Texts, documents, and extracts chiefly from manuscripts in the Bodleian and other Oxford Libraries (1881-1884) (mix English and Sanskrit)
  • Buddhist Texts from Japan (Vol. 1, part 1, 1881) (HathiTrust) (HathiTrust)
  • Sukhâvatî-vyûha; description of Sukhâvatî, the land of bliss (Vol. 1, part 2, 1883) (HathiTrust) (HathiTrust)
  • The ancient palm-leaves, containing the pragñâ-pâramitâ-hridaya-sûra and the ushnîsha-vigaya-dhâranî (Vol. 1, part 3, 1884) (HathiTrust) (HathiTrust)
• A catalogue of Japanese and Chinese books and manuscripts lately added to the Bodleian library (1881) (HathiTrust)
• A catalogue of the Chinese translation of the Buddhist Tripitaka, the sacred canon of the Buddhists in China and Japan (1883) (HathiTrust) (HathiTrust)
• The life of the Buddha and the early history of his order (1884) (HathiTrust) (HathiTrust) (HathiTrust) (HathiTrust) (HathiTrust)
• A short history of the twelve Japanese Buddhist sects (1886) (HathiTrust)
• An unabridged Japanese-English dictionary, with copious illustrations (1896) with Capt. F. Brinkley, Y. Iwasaki (HathiTrust)
• Saddharmapuṇḍarīka (1912) with Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern (mix English and Sanskrit) (HathiTrust)
• Wa-Ei-Shi-Sen shikokugoyaku Bonbun Amidakyō: tsuketari kakushū yori mitaru Amidakyō (1917) (mix Japanese, English, Chinese, Korean (and others?)) (HathiTrust)
• The Suvarṇaprabhāsa sūtra, a Mahayana text called The golden splendou (1931 (posthumous)) edited by H. Idzumi (HathiTrust))
• The Lankavatara Sutra (1956?) (HathiTrust)

Works about Bunyiu Nanjio

• Biographical essays by F. Max Müller (1884, chapter) (HathiTrust) (HathiTrust)
• "Bunyiu, Nanjio," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• NANJO, Bunyu in Who's Who in the Far East (June) 1906-7