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Three Early Mahāyāna Treatises from Gandhāra
Bajaur Kharoṣṭhī Fragments 4, 6, and 11
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...
ISBN: 9780295750736
more detailsAncient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara
The British Library Kharosthi Fragments
ISBN: 9780295977690
more detailsA Gandhari Version of the Rhinoceros Sutra
British Library Kharosthi Fragment 5B
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...
ISBN: 9780295980355
more detailsGandharan Buddhist Reliquaries
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...
ISBN: 9780295992365
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