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Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara

The British Library Kharosthi Fragments

By Richard Salomon

As the Dead Sea scrolls have changed our understanding of Judaism and early Christianity, so a set of twenty-nine scrolls recently acquired by the British Library promise to provide a window into a crucial phase...

Two Gandhari Manuscripts of the "Songs of Lake Anavatapta" (Anavatapta-gatha)

British Library Kharosthi Fragment 1 and Senior Scroll 14

By Richard Salomon. With Andrew Glass

This fifth volume in the Gandharan Buddhist Texts series (GBT) presents two fragmentary manuscripts of the poem "Songs of Lake Anavatapta." Previously known from versions in Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, and Chinese, the two recently discovered...

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...