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Three Early Mahāyāna Treatises from Gandhāra

Bajaur Kharoṣṭhī Fragments 4, 6, and 11

By Andrea Schlosser

The Gandhāran birch-bark scrolls preserve the earliest remains of Buddhist literature known today and provide unprecedented insights into the history of Buddhism. This volume presents three manuscripts from the Bajaur Collection (BC), a group of...

Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara

The British Library Kharosthi Fragments

By Richard Salomon

A Gandhari Version of the Rhinoceros Sutra

British Library Kharosthi Fragment 5B

By Richard Salomon
With Andrew Glass

Prominent in several Buddhist traditions, the Rhinoceros Sutra espouses the virtues of solitude, explaining the dangers of attachments, prescribing a solitary spiritual life, and discussing the nature of friends and friendship. British Library Fragment 5B...

Gandharan Buddhist Reliquaries

By David Jongeward, Elizabeth Errington, Richard Salomon, and Stefan Baums

Gandhara, the ancient name for the region around modern Peshawar in northern Pakistan, was of pivotal importance in the production of Buddhist texts and art in the first centuries CE. Since the mid-nineteenth century, excavations...