Three Early Mahāyāna Treatises from Gandhāra : Bajaur Kharoṣṭhī Fragments 4, 6, and 11 / Andrea Schlosser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schlosser, Andrea, author.

Contributor:

Baums, Stefan, editor.

Salomon, Richard, editor.

Strauch, Ingo, editor.

Series:

Gandhāran Buddhist texts ; v. 7.

Gandhāran buddhist texts; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhist literature, Gandhari Prakrit--Gandhara (Pakistan and Afghanistan).

Buddhist literature, Gandhari Prakrit.

Manuscripts, Kharoṣṭhi--Gandhara (Pakistan and Afghanistan).

Manuscripts, Kharoṣṭhi.

Gandhara (Pakistan and Afghanistan).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University of Washington Press 2022

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2022.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Andrea Schlosser is research associate in the Buddhist Manuscripts from Gandhāra project at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Munich.

Summary:

"The Gandharan 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 nineteen scrolls discovered at the end of the twentieth century and named after their findspot in northwestern Pakistan. The manuscripts, written in the Gandhari language and Kharosthi script, date to the second century CE. The three scrolls-BC 4, BC 6, and BC 11- contain treatises that focus on the Buddhist concept of non-attachment. This volume is the first in the Gandharan Buddhist Texts series that is devoted to texts belonging to the Mahayana tradition. There are no known versions of these texts in other Buddhist traditions, and it is assumed that they are autographs. Andrea Schlosser provides an overview of the contents of the manuscripts and discusses their context, genre, possible authorship, physical layout, paleography, orthography, phonology, and morphology. Transliteration and translation of the texts are accompanied by notes on difficult terminology, photographs of the reconstructed scrolls, an index of Gandhari words with Sanskrit and Pali equivalents, and a preliminary transliteration of the scroll BC 19"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations and Tables

Series Editors’ Preface

Author’s Preface

Conventions

Abbreviations

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Physical Description

Chapter 3 Paleography

Chapter 4 Orthography

Chapter 5 Phonology

Chapter 6 Morphology

Chapter 7 Text Edition

Chapter 8 Annotations

Appendix Kharoṣṭhī Bajaur Fragment 19

References

Word Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

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ISBN:

9780295750750

0295750758

OCLC:

1346140610