Discover the fascinating history of a long-hidden Buddhist culture at a historic crossroads. In the years following Alexander the Great's conquest of the East, a series of empires rose up along …
The present volume is the fifth in the Gandharan Buddhist Texts series. This series was inaugurated in order to publish the brich bark scrolls in the British Library Kharosthi manuscript collection…
List of Illustrations and TablesAcknowledgmentsGandharan Buddhist Texts: Series IntroductionList of AbbreviationsPART 1: INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS1.The Rhinoceros Sutra2. The Text of Gandhari Rhino…
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…
This book provides a general survey of all the inscriptional material in the Sanskrit, Prakrit, and modern Indo-Aryan languages, including donative, dedicatory, panegyric, ritual, and literary text…
About the Book : The articles collected in this volume, which were originally presented in the panels on art and epigraphy at the 12th World Sanskrit Conference in Helsinki, Finland, illustrate the…