Carminis Indici "Vimalapraçnottararatnamāla" versio Tibetica ab Antonio Schiefner edita. Academiae Jenensi saecularia tertia diebus XV. XVI. XVII. AUG. anni MDCCCLVIII celebranda gratulatur Academia Caesarea scientiarum Petropolitana

Folio (339x258 mm). [2], 26 pp. Title page and text printed within a typographic frame. Latin, German, and Tibetan text. Editor's printed cardboards (rebacked, soiled and stained). Light dampstain to the lower outer corner throughout the volume, some marginal foxing.

This rare publication presents the Vimalapraśnottara Ratnamālā, a poem on ethics written originally in Sanskrit by the Jain scholar-king Amoghavarṣa and translated into Tibetan in the eleventh century by Kamalagupta and Rinchen Zangpo (d. 1055), and included in the Tibetan Tengyur. The German version is by Anton Schiefner.

Schiefner was one of the most versatile linguists of the 19^th century. Born in Tallinn, he studied law and philology, taught classical languages in St. Petersburg, and served there as a librarian and member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. He succeeded Isaak Jakob Schmidt as an expert on Tibetan and engaged intensively with the Finnish languages.

OCLC, 314098451.

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