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Three Early Mahāyāna Treatises from Gandhāra

Bajaur Kharosthī 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

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...

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...