The Buddhism of Tibet, or Lamaism

ABBREVIATIONS.

B. Ac. Ptsbg. = Bulletin of the Historical-Philological Department of the Academy of Saint Petersburg. original Latin/French: Bulletin de la Classe Hist. Philol. de l’Academie de St. Petersbourg.
Burn. I. = Burnouf’s Introduction to Indian Buddhism. original French: Introd. au Budd. indien.
Burn. II. = Burnouf’s Lotus of the Good Law. original French: Lotus de bonne Loi. This refers to the Lotus Sutra, a key text in Mahayana Buddhism.
cf. = compare. original Latin: confer
Csoma An. = Csoma Körösi’s Analysis in Asiatic Researches, Volume 20. Alexander Csoma de Körös was a Hungarian philologist who compiled the first Tibetan-English dictionary.
Csoma Gr. = Csoma Körösi’s Tibetan Grammar.
Davids = Rhys Davids’ Buddhism. Thomas William Rhys Davids was a founder of the Pali Text Society and a leading scholar of early Buddhism.
Desg. = Desgodins’ Tibet, etc. original French: Le Tibet, etc.
Eitel = Eitel’s Handbook of Chinese Buddhism.
Jaesch. D. = Jäschke’s Tibetan Dictionary. Heinrich August Jäschke was a Moravian missionary and linguist whose dictionary remains a standard reference.
J.A.S.B. = Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.
J.R.A.S. = Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, London.
Hodgs. = Hodgson’s Essays on Language, Literature, etc. Brian Houghton Hodgson was a British diplomat in Nepal who discovered a massive collection of Sanskrit Buddhist manuscripts.
Huc = Travels in Tartary, Tibet, etc., William Hazlitt’s translation. Abbé Huc was a French missionary famous for his accounts of traveling through Tibet in the 1840s.
Köppen = Köppen’s The Lamaist Hierarchy. original German: Lamaische Hierarchie.
Markham = Markham’s Tibet.
Marco P. = Marco Polo, Henry Yule’s edition.
O.M. = Original Communications of the Ethnological Department of the Royal Museum of Ethnology, Berlin. original German: Original Mitt. Ethnolog. Königl. Museum fur Völkerkunde Berlin.
Pander = Pander’s The Pantheon, etc. original German: Das Pantheon, etc.
pr. = pronounced.
Rock. L. = Rockhill’s Land of the Lamas. William Woodville Rockhill was an American diplomat and explorer of Tibet.
Rock. B. = Rockhill’s Life of the Buddha, etc.
Sarat = Sarat Chandra Das. A Bengali scholar and spy who traveled to Lhasa and wrote extensively on Tibetan culture.
S.B.E. = Sacred Books of the East. A massive 50-volume set of translations of Asian religious texts edited by Max Müller.
Schlag. = Emil Schlagintweit’s Buddhism in Tibet.
Skt. = Sanskrit.
S.R. = Survey of India Report.
T. = Tibetan.
Tara. = Tāranātha’s History, etc., Anton Schiefner’s translation. original German: Geschichte, etc. Tāranātha was a major Tibetan historian of the 16th–17th centuries.
Vasil. = Vasiliev’s (or Wassiljew’s) Buddhism. original German: Der Buddhismus. Vasily Vasilyev was a pioneering Russian scholar of Buddhism.