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2. Bibliographies in Japanese or Chinese

• App, Urs. 1993. "Recent English Publications about Chan, Son, and Zen (1977-1992)." Zenbunka kenkyûjo kiyô 19:1-58.

  All titles of books and articles in this bibliography have been translated into Japanese by Shun Murakami. This list thus contains Chinese characters for all names, book titles, etc. that appear in titles of English publications on Chan / Son / Zen over the last fifteen years. It is also available in electronic form (see section V).

• Bukkyôgaku kankei zasshi ronbun bunruimokuroku henshû iinkai •§‹³ŠwŠÖŒWŽGŽ�˜_•¶•ª—Þ–Ú˜^•Ò�WˆÏˆõ‰ï. 1972. Bukkyôgaku kankei zasshi ronbun bunruimokuroku: Shôwa sanjûichinen ichigatsu -- ôwa yonjûyonen jûnigatsu •§‹³ŠwŠÖŒWŽGŽ�˜_•¶•ª—Þ–Ú˜^�[�º˜a‚R‚P”N‚PŒŽ�`�º˜a‚S‚S”N‚P‚QŒŽ. Kyoto: Nagata Bunshôdô ‰i“c•¶�¹“°.

• Chûgoku shisô shûkyôshi kenkyûkai ’†�‘Žv‘z�@‹³ŽjŒ¤‹†‰ï. 1976. Chûgoku shisô shûkyô bunka kankei ronbun mokuroku ’†�‘Žv‘z¥�@‹³¥•¶‰»ŠÖŒW˜_•¶–Ú˜^. Tokyo: Kokusho kankôkai �‘�‘Š§�s‰ï.

• Dongguk University Institute of Buddhist Culture “Œ�‘‘åŠw•§‹³•¶‰»Œ¤‹†�Š. 1982. Kankoku bussho kaidai jiten ŠØ�‘•§�‘‰ð‘莫“T. Tokyo: Kokusho kankôkai �‘�‘Š§�s‰ï.

  Lists Korean Buddhist works from the Three-Kingdom period until 1896. Entries are arranged according to period and author, and descriptions of these works provide a great deal of useful information. Each major author is introduced by a short biography. Almost half of the dictionary consists of a "materials" section which lists important sources for biographies, the history of temples, and various other topics (such as 72 works on ritual and many reference works). Includes also indices to authors 's names, book titles, and texts associated with particular sects. A useful and authoritative reference work.

• Hanazono daigaku ‰Ô‰€‘åŠw. 1977. "Yanagida Seizan sensei chosaku mokuroku –ö“c�¹ŽR�æ�¶’˜�ì–Ú˜^." Hanazono daigaku kenkyû kiyô ‰Ô‰€‘åŠwŒ¤‹†‹I—v 8:1-8. .

  List of Yanagida's publications until 1976. See the more recent list of publications under Tôhôgakuhô (1987). Since then, no comprehensive list of publications has been made.

• Iida, Rigyô ”Ñ“c—˜�s. 1942. Gakushô Mujaku Dôchû ›{�¹–³’˜“¹’‰. Tokyo: Seigodô �Œ擰. Reprint with updated comprehensive catalogue of Mujaku's works: Kyoto: Zenbunka kenkyûjo, 1986.

  The body of this book provides much information about the circumstances in which Mujaku's works were written. The 1986 reprint includes the latest comprehensive catalogue of Mujaku's works. The list does not contain microfilm and page numbers, and no comments are included. Good for finding unpublished works.

• International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism ‰Ô‰€‘åŠw�‘�Û‘TŠwŒ¤‹†�Š. Work in progress. Library Catalogue of the International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism.

  About two thirds of the basic data have been input, and correction and classification is ongoing. The printed catalogue should be available in 1994, and publication as a computer file is also planned.

• International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism ‰Ô‰€‘åŠw�‘�Û‘TŠwŒ¤‹†�Š. Work in progress. Primary Sources of Chan, Son, and Zen.

  This part of the ZenKnowledgebase project aims at compiling a survey of the major Chan, Son, and Zen primary sources after the model of Prof. Yanagida's Zenseki kaidai (1974) and Zen Dust. Apart from essential information about the various editions, authors, editors, etc., this work will also list references to other sources of information about the work in question as well as available modern translations.

• Kokusho kankôkai �‘�‘Š§�s‰ï. 1983. Bukkyôgaku kankei zasshi bunken sôran •§‹³ŠwŠÖŒWŽGŽ�•¶Œ£‘�——. Tokyo: Kokusho kankôkai �‘�‘Š§�s‰ï.

  This fat volume lists, in the form of tables of contents, articles concerning Buddhism that appeared in 288 Japanese journals an research publications from the beginning of Meiji until 1981. An index of all author's names facilitates finding information. A project of the Indogaku bukkyôgaku kenkyûkai (see section V) aims at making this information available in electronic form and with up to five keywords for access to this pool of information by theme.

• Komazawa daigaku toshokan ‹î‘ò‘åŠw�}�‘ŠÙ. 1962. Shinsan zenseki mokuroku �VŽ[‘T�Жژ^. Tokyo: Nihon bussho kankôkai “ú–{•§�‘Š§�s‰ï. (Supplement ’Ç•â•Ñ published in 1964).

  This is one of the best known catalogues of Chan / Son / Zen literature. It is a major overhaul of the older Zenseki mokuroku ‘T�Жژ^ by Takada Yoshimitsu (listed below). It consists of two major parts: part 1 (pp. 1-532) which lists texts up to the end of the Edo period (arranged according to title reading in the Japanese syllabary) and part 2 (pp. 533-612) which lists post-Edo titles arranged according to themes. A "List of Reference Books on Zen" (pp. 56-62 from the back) is rea lly a hodgepodge list of some pre-1962 Western publications on Zen, Buddhism, and associated themes (such as E.J. Harrison's The Fighting Spirit of Japan. London: Fisher Unwin, 1913). Part 1 is an indispensable list which provides details about volume, authorship, publication, place of storage, etc. of a very large number of Chan / Zen texts. It has long been out of pring, but as happens often with such indispensable research tools, a possibly illegal yet very welcome and affordable pirate edition (which in cludes the 1964 supplement) has appeared in a foreign land (in this case in Korea).

• Komazawa daigaku nai zengaku daijiten hensansho ‹îàV‘åŠw“à‘TŠw‘厫“T•ÒŽ[�Š. 1977. Zengaku daijiten âW›{‘å熓T.Tokyo: Taishûkan shoten ‘å�CŠÙ�‘“X.

  A handy classified bibliography of reference works, primary Chan / Son / Zen literature, and general Buddhist texts used in the Chan / Son / Zen traditions is found on pp. 147 - 203 of vol. 3. It contains a lot of information, and the arrangement according to themes makes browsing easy. In general, book titles are followed by their number of fascicles, author / editor information, collection information, and the page of the Zengaku daijiten where the work is described in more detail. Commentarie s are also listed. Yanagida's 1974 list is much more limited in breadth but gives substantially more depth information.

• Korean National Library �‘—§’†‰›�}�‘ŠÙ. 1970-1972. Annotated Bibliography of Son Texts ‘T–{‰ð‘è I - III. Seoul: National Library.

• Kyoto University Jinbun kagaku kenkyûjo ‹ž“s‘åŠw�l•¶‰ÈŠwŒ¤‹†�Š. Tôyôgaku bunken ruimoku “Œ—mŠw•¶Œ£—Þ–Ú.

  This yearly comprehensive classified bibliography is an important source of information on secondary sources. It also includes many references to Chinese scholarship.

• Li, Xuangen —›�œ�ª. Kôrai daizôkyô sômokuroku / sakuin / kaidai (Nihongoban �‚—í‘å‘ Œo ‘�–Ú˜^¥�õˆø¥‰ð‘è(“ú–{Œê”Å). Kyoto: Dôhôsha “¯•üŽÉ.

  Contains a sequential list of all texts contained in the Korean canon as well as detailed descriptions of works. Corresponding Taishô numbers are added. The descriptions of the texts (including those contained in the additional materials of the canon, for example the Zutangji ‘c“°�W K 1503) make this work valuable. A variety of indices make it easier to use than its equivalent by Lancaster: there is, for example, an index to variant names of texts, one to key terms occurring within a text title, and one to names of translators.

• Myôtaku –­‘ì. 1909. "Mujaku oshô jisen shomoku." –³’˜˜a�®Ž©�ï�‘–Ú. Murata, Mudô ‘º“c–³“¹ (ed.), Zenrin shôkisen âW—Ñ�ÛŠíâ³. Tokyo: Baiyô shoin ŠL—t�‘‰@, 11-18.

  This is the earliest published list of Mujaku Dôchû's works; it is mostly of historical interest.

• Matsugaoka bunko card catalogue. Matsugaoka bunko �¼ƒP‹u•¶ŒÉ, Kamakura.

  This is just one example of a library with important holdings whose contents have not yet been published in a bibliography but need to be. All books and manuscripts left by D.T. Suzuki are stored in this library, among them many valuable woodblock print editions. Komazawa University's Shinsan zenseki mokuroku may include most of them, but nobody is quite sure how much is missing there.

• Ogawa, Takashi �¬�ì—². Forthcoming** (1994). "Zenseki dokukai no tebiki ‘T�Гljð‚ÌŽèˆø‚«." In: Zengaku kenkyû nyûmon ‘TŠwŒ¤‹†“ü–å. Tokyo: Daitô shuppansha ‘å“Œ�o”ÅŽÐ.

  To judge by the small part I have seen of this forthcoming book written mostly by scholars of Komazawa University, it appears to become a very valuable resource indeed. The part written by Mr. Ogawa deals with all sorts of reference materials and reading aids for Chan texts, from Chinese grammars and introductions to kanbun reading to year-tables and dictionaries. The draft version I have seen deals exclusively with Chinese and Japanese printed works useful for Chan (rather than Son or Zen) rese arch. Descriptions are very brief, but the choice and arrangement by themes will make this article (and probably the whole book) well worth having.

• Ono, Gemmyô �¬–쌺–­. 1933-36 / 1964-67. Bussho kaisetsu daijiten ˜Å�‘‰ð�à‘å熓T. Tokyo: Daitô shuppansha ‘å“Œ�o”ÅŽÐ. 12 volumes. Supplement by Maruyama Takao ŠÛŽR�F—Y. Tokyo, 1975-77.

  A magnum opus of proverbial quality and scope, at least as far as Chinese Buddhist texts are concerned. The entries furnish whatever information is available about the following: the scripture title(s) in Chinese characters and Japanese as well as Chinese reading, number of fascicles, whether it is extant or lost, author and/or translator, year of origin or translation, remarks on content, commentaries and reference works, year of publication, where it is found, and information about the publis her. Many reference works, works by Mujaku Dôchû, and more modern works are also listed and discussed. Particularly the two supplementary volumes are rich in Chan, Son, and Zen materials, and these articles are generally of high quality.

• Ôtsuki, Mikio ‘å’Ί²˜Y. Work in progress. Bibliography of Publications on Ôbaku-Zen.

• Ryûkoku daigaku toshokan —´’J‘åŠw�}�‘ŠÙ. 1973. Bukkyôgaku kankei zasshi ronbun bunruimokuroku: Meijishoki Ñ Shôwa gonen •§‹³ŠwŠÖŒWŽGŽ�˜_•¶•ª—Þ–Ú˜^-–¾Ž¡�‰Šú-�º˜a5”N. Kyoto: Hyakkaen •S‰Ø‰‘.

  Lists publications by a variety of categories and includes a useful index to themes.

• Ryûkoku daigaku bukkyôgaku kenkyûshitsu —´’J‘åŠw•§‹³ŠwŒ¤‹†Žº. 1974. Bukkyôgaku kankei zasshi ronbun bunrui mokuroku. •§‹³ŠwŠÖŒWŽGŽ�˜_•¶•ª—Þ–Ú˜^. Kyoto: Ryûkoku daigaku bukkyôgaku kenkyûshitsu —´’J‘åŠw•§‹³ŠwŒ¤‹†Žº.

  Like the earlier Ryûkoku volume just listed, this useful bibliography includes many articles from the Chûgai nippô ’†ŠO“ú•ñ newspaper which tend not to appear in other bibliographies and is indexed by theme.

• Shôboku, Gitai �¹–l‹`’ú, ed., Zenseki chi ‘T�ÐŽu. Included in the Dainihon bukkyô zensho ‘å“ú–{•§‹³‘S�‘ (Tokyo: Bussho kankô hankôkai •§�‘Š§�s‰ï, 1980) vol. 1, pp. 271-320.

• Shinohara,Hisao ŽÂŒ´šæ—Y, and Tanaka Ryôshô “c’†—Ç�º, eds. 1980. Tonkô butten to Zen “ÖàŠ•§“T‚Æ‘T. Tokyo: Daitô shuppansha ‘å“Œ�o”ÅŽÐ.

  Contains an enormous amount of information on Dunhuang Chan materials, including lists of such texts and detailed descriptions of their content. Indispensable for students of early Chan, Dunhuang, and Tibet.

• Sôtôshû shûgaku kenkyûsho ‘‚“´�@�@ŠwŒ¤‹†�Š. 1990. Sôtôshû kankei bunken mokuroku ‘‚“´�@ŠÖŒW•¶Œ£–Ú˜^. Tokyo: Sôtôshû shûgaku kenkyûsho ‘‚“´�@�@ŠwŒ¤‹†�Š.

  A convenient list, arranged according to themes (important figures such as Dôgen and their life, thought, work; historical topics; doctrinal issues; important texts; monastic codes, etc.). Includes an author index.

• Sôtôshû zensho kankôkai ‘‚“´�@‘S�‘Š§�s‰ï. 1978. Sôtôshû zensho kaidai / sakuin‘‚“´�@‘S�‘‰ð‘è¥�õˆø. Tokyo: Sôtôshû zensho kankôkai ‘‚“´�@‘S�‘Š§�s‰ï.

  An extremely useful companion volume to the collection of Sôtô materials. A major of this fat volume is taken up by an annotated list of all texts which contains very detailed information. The encyclopaedic bent of Sôtô scholars carried the day once again: pp. 622 - 653 features a historical table of texts and editions, pp. 654 - 664 lineage tables of authors and editors, a detailed bibliography of related source materials, etc. Indices to temple names, authors, editors, and book titles round off this impressive piece of scholarship.

• Takada, Yoshimitsu �‚“c‹VŒõ. 1928. Zenseki mokuroku ‘T�Жژ^. Tokyo: Komazawa daigaku toshokan ‹î‘ò‘åŠw�}�‘ŠÙ.

  This is the original list that the editors of the Shinsan zenseki mokuroku �VŽ[‘T�Жژ^ (see above under Komazawa daigaku) used for their work. It is thus superseded by the latter.

• Tanaka, Ryôshô “c’†—Ç�º. 1989. "Tonkô zenseki no kenkyûjôkyô to sono mondaiten “ÖàŠ‘T�Ђ̌¤‹†�󋵂Ƃ»‚Ì–â‘è“_." Komazawa daigaku bukkyôgakubu ronshû ‹îàV‘åŠw•§‹³Šw•”˜_�W 20: 41-55 (514-500).

  Deals with 1) Dunhuang Zen materials and their content, 2) the establishment and development of the Lamp Histories, 3) early Zen records (yŸlu Œê˜^), and 4) other Dunhuang Zen materials. Good survey by one of the foremost specialists.

• Tanaka Ryôshô “c’†—Ç�º. 1983. Tonkô Zenshû bunken no kenkyû “ÖàŠ‘T�@•¶Œ£‚ÌŒ¤‹†. Tokyo: Daitô shuppansha ‘å“Œ�o”ÅŽÐ.

  Though not a reference work, this book is an important source of information for researchers working in this field.

• Tôhô gakuhô “Œ•û›{•ñ. 1987. "Yanagida Seizan kyôju chosaku mokuroku" –ö“c�¹ŽR‹³Žö’˜�ì–Ú˜^. Tôhô gakuhô “Œ•û›{•ñ 59: 591-599.

  To date the most comprehensive list of Prof. Yanagida's publications. For a few more recent works see the bibliography by Faure included in this number of the Cahiers. No list has yet been made of the hundreds of newspaper articles authored by Yanagida.

• Unesco Higashi Ajia Bunka kenkyû sentâ bukkyô bijutsu chôsa senmon iinkai ƒ†ƒlƒXƒR“ŒƒAƒWƒA•¶‰»Œ¤‹†ƒZƒ“ƒ^�[ •§‹³”ü�p’²�¸�ê–åˆÏˆõ‰ï. 1973. Bukkyô bijutsu bunken mokuroku •§‹³”ü�p•¶Œ£–Ú˜^. Tokyo: Chûô kôron bijutsu shuppan ’†‰›Œö˜_”ü�p�o”Å.

  Lists 4083 publications about Buddhist art that appeared in Japan between 1960 and 1969. Includes a useful list (pp. 255-281) of periodicals that include such articles and an index to authors' names.

• Yanagida, Seizan –ö“c�¹ŽR. 1967. Shoki zenshû shisho no kenkyû �‰ŠúâW�@Žj�‘‚ÌŒ¤‹†. Kyoto: Hôzôkan –@‘ ŠÙ.

  This work, described by John McRae in this issue of the Cahiers, is not a reference work, but it can almost function as such for early Chan since it includes a set of six indices that are exemplary in conception and content (personal names incl. buddhas and bodihsattvas, place and temple names, themes, expressions, and book titles). Pp. 49-50 and 51-53 contain listst of Chan-related materials in the Quantangwen ‘S“‚•¶ and such Dunhuang materials. Indispensable.

• Yanagida, Seizan –ö“c�¹ŽR. 1974. "Zenseki kaidai ‘T�Љð‘è." In: Nishitani, Keiji �¼’JŒ[Ž¡ and Yanagida, Seizan –ö“c�¹ŽR, eds.: Zenke goroku ‘T‰ÆŒê˜^ vol. 2, 445-514. Tokyo: Chikuma Shobô ’}–€�‘–[.

  While there are larger lists of Zen literature from different traditions (such as that in the third volume of the Zengaku daijiten ‘TŠw‘厫“T, p. 147 ff. and Komazawa University's excellent Shinsan zenseki mokuroku �VŽ[‘T�Жژ^ of 1962), Yanagida's list is annotated. Apart from materials, text collections which contain Zen texts, Dunhuang Zen materials, etc., it lists Chinese and some Korean Zen texts by Chinese dynastic periods. Authors, editors etc. of texts are m entioned, and a brief textual history with remarks about different versions etc. is given for each text. Though in need of some revision and augmentation (particularly with regard to Dunhuang and Korean materials), this list is of singular quality. An electronic version of this list is being planned at the International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism.

• Yoshinaga, Utarô ‹g‰i‰K‘¾˜Y. 1942. Ôbaku sôsho ‰©ŸA‘p�‘. Kyoto: Ôbaku shûmu hon'in ‰©ŸA�@–±–{‰@.

  List of Ôbaku materials, mostly biographical materials, and works by Ôbaku monks.

• Yuan Bin åÍ•o. 1991. Zhongguo chanzong yulu daguan ’†š âW�@Œê˜^‘åæV. Nanchang: Baihuashu wenyi chubanshe •S‰Ô�F•¶åY�o”ÅŽÐ.

  Though this book lists about 400 Chan masters and gives some brief excerpts from their records, I hesitate to include it in this list despite its grand title. For biographical information, one better turns to the Zengaku daijiten; in the present book, well-known biographical anecdotes (mostly from the Jingde chuandenglu Œi“¿ôB“•˜^ or Wudeng huiyuan ŒÜ“•˜ðŒ³) are simply repeated. The Chan records are not described but quoted in small translated sound-bites (mostly from the Taishô or Zokuzôkyô).

• Zenbunka kenkyûjo ‘T•¶‰»Œ¤‹†�Š. 1965. Mujaku Dôchû zenji senjutsu shomoku –³’˜“¹’‰‘TŽt�ï�q�‘–Ú (2 mimeographed vols). Kyoto: Zenbunka kenkyûjo ‘T•¶‰»Œ¤‹†�Š, 1965.

  The two slim volumes have been long out of print but are still the most important and complete catalogues of Mujaku's works. The first volume lists all works from Mujaku's hand that are found in the library of his subtemple (the Ryûgein —´‰Ø‰@) in Kyoto's Myôshinji –­�SŽ› temple complex. The second volume provides a list of all works found in the Hokuen bunko (–k‰‘•¶ŒÉ) which is found in the Shunkôin �tŒõ‰@ subtemple of My&oci rc;shinji –­�SŽ›. An appendix lists all works that are lacking in the Ryûgein but are mentioned in Myôtaku's –­‘ì Mujaku oshô jisen shomoku –³’˜˜a�®Ž©�ï�‘–Ú (see below) and are stored at other locations. This catalogue contains microfilm numbers and additional information not included in the more recent reprint of Iida's book (1986) by the same institute.

• Zenbunka kenkyûjo ‘T•¶‰»Œ¤‹†�Š. 1988. "Iriya Yoshitaka kyôju ryakunenpu / hennen chosaku mokuroku “ü–î‹`�‚‹³Žö—ª”N•ˆ�E•Ò”N’˜�ì–Ú˜^." Zenbunka kenkyûjo kiyô ‘T•¶‰»Œ¤‹†�Š‹L—v15: 3-24

• Zengaku kenkyû ‘TŠwŒ¤‹†. 1982. "Ôbakushû kankei zasshi ronbun mokuroku." Zengaku kenkyû ‘TŠwŒ¤‹† 61: 10-12.

  A simple and short but helpful list of Japanese journal publications on the ïbaku-Zen tradition; mentions articles from 1895 until 1979.

• Zengaku kenkyû ‘TŠwŒ¤‹†. Yearly. "Zengaku kankei zasshi ronbun mokuroku ‘TŠwŠÖŒWŽGŽ�˜_•¶–Ú˜^." Zengaku kenkyû ‘TŠwŒ¤‹†.

  Useful periodical listings of (mainly but not exclusively) Japanese journal publications. The rubrics are "thought", "China," "Japan," "Korea", "Miscellaneous", and "Book reviews." Articles are listed with journal name, number, and month but unfortunately without page numbers.

• Zhongguo fojiaohui wenxian weiyuanhui bianjibu�@’†�‘•§‹³‰ï•¶Œ£ˆÏˆõ‰ï•Ò�S•”. 1975.Zhongguo minguo liushinian lai fojiao lunwen mulu ’†‰Ø–¯�‘60”N—ˆ •§‹³˜_•¶–Ú˜^. Taipei: Zhongguo fojiaohui wenxian weiyuanhui ’†�‘•§‹³‰ï•¶Œ£ˆÏˆõ‰ï.

  Lists Taiwanese publications on Buddhism from 1971-1975.

• Xinwenfeng bianshenbu �V•¶–L•Ò�R•”. 1977. Xuzangjing zongmulu mulu suoyin ‘±‘ Œo‘�–Ú˜^–Ú˜^�õˆø. Taipei: Xinwenfeng chuban �V•¶–L�o”Å.

  This is a list of all text titles contained in the 150-volume Manji zokuzôkyô collection. There are two parts: one list gives the titles by the number of strokes in their first character, the second by their sequence of appearance in the 150 volumes.