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Author | : Mark Allon |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780295981857 |
Three Gandhari Ekottarikagama-Type Sutras continues the Gandharan Buddhist Texts studies of the first-century A.D. birch bark scrolls in the British Library's Kharosthi manuscript collection. It describes the text found on two fragments which constitute the lower part of a scroll and consists of the remnants of three sutras. All three sutras are relatively short and have an association with the number four, which suggests that they are from a Gandhar- Ekottarikagama, a collection of short discourses grouped according to numerical principles and one of the major collections of writings in the Buddhist canon. The first sutra records a discussion in which a brahman asks the Buddha four questions. The second su-tra, like the third, depicts the Buddha preaching to monks. The structure of this sutra is based on the four postures: walking, standing, sitting, and lying down. The Buddha's discourse in the third sutra concerns the four efforts (or abandonings). The book describes the condition of the scroll and its reconstruction; examines in detail the literary and textual background of the sutras, comparing them with other extant versions and parallels in other languages; and presents a transcription of the extant text, a reconstruction, and an English translation. It includes chapters on the paleography, orthography, phonology, and morphology of the text, and offers a detailed analytic commentary. For more information go to the Early Buddhist Manuscript Project web site at http: //www.ebmp.org/
Author | : Andrew Glass |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780295987729 |
Four Gandhari Samyuktagama Sutras continues the study of Gandharan Buddhist texts and is the first investigation of a scroll from the Senior Collection of Kharosthi manuscripts. Senior scroll number 5, one of the best preserved of all Kharosthi manuscripts, contains four short sutras that give a first-hand account of meditation practice in Gandhara in the middle of the second century A.D. Andrew Glass is the lead researcher on the Gandhari Dictionary Project and a member of the British Library/University of Washington early Buddhist Manuscripts Project (www.ebmp.org).
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Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : China |
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Author | : Himanshu Prabha Ray |
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Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
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Contributed papers presented at a conference organised in February-March, 2006 in New Delhi.
Author | : Timothy Lenz |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780295983080 |
This volume continues the detailed examination of the British Library Kharosthi scrolls--extremely fragile and brittle fragments of manuscript on birch-bark rolls. Although their provenance is uncertain, there are strong indications that they came from Hadda in eastern Afghanistan and were most likely written in the early first century A.D. during the reign of the Saka rulers, making them the oldest known Buddhist manuscripts. Fragments 16 and 25 are two long, relatively narrow fragments that obviously belong to the same scroll. Two texts were written on the scroll, each by a different scribe. The first text, referred to as the Gandhari London Dharmapada, represents an anthology of verses well known in the Buddhist tradition. The second text is a series of stories concerning previous births of the Buddha and of some of his disciples. For more information go to the Early Buddhist Manuscript Project web site at http://www.ebmp.org/
Author | : Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera |
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Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
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Author | : Richard Salomon |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780295980355 |
Launches the series of text editions and studies of the birth bark scrolls in the British Library's Kharosthi manuscript collection, dating from about the first century AD. Most of the Gandhari fragments have yet to be identified, but the Rhinoceros Sutra is also known in Pali and Sanskrit versions. A 100-page introduction to the language and manuscript is followed by a transcribed text with translation and an annotated text with translation and commentary. Color photographs of the fragments themselves are also included. Ghandhari words are indexed, but not subjects. c. Book News Inc.
Author | : Jan Nattier |
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Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
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Total Pages | : 2068 |
Release | : 2002 |
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Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Dunhuang (China) |
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