The senior manuscripts: another collection of Gandharan Buddhist scrolls.

From: The Journal of the American Oriental Society | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

1. INTRODUCTION

In 1994 the British Library acquired a collection of twenty-nine fragments of birch bark scrolls containing various Buddhist texts written in Kharosthi script and Gandhari (Prakrit) language (Salomon 1997). At the time, these were virtually the only known specimens of what must have been a very extensive Gandharan Buddhist literature, with the exception of one other manuscript, namely the famous "Gandhari Dharmapada," which had been discovered in 1892 near Khotan in what is now the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China. In 1996 the British ...

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