Three Gandhari Ekottarikagama-Type Sutras - British Library Kharosthi Fragments 12 and 14

Volume two of Gandharan Buddhist Texts, a series that presents editions and studies of the first-century A.D. birch bark scrolls in the British Library's Kharosthi manuscript collection. It describes the text found on two fragments which consititute the lower part of a scroll and consists of the remnants of three sutras. The book describes the condition of the scroll and its reconstruction; examines in detail the literary and textual background of the sutras; and presents a transcription of the extant text, a reconstruction, and an English translation.

Summary

This is volume two of 'Gandharan Buddhist Texts', a series that presents editions and studies of the first-century A.D. birch bark scrolls in the British Library's Kharosthi manuscript collection.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Allon, Andrew Glass
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2001
• EAN: 9780295981857
• ISBN: 978-0-295-98185-7
• No. of pages: 368
• Weight: 1202 g
• Illustrations: 11 illus., 8 color
• Series: Gandharan Buddhist Texts; Gandharan Buddhist Texts; Three Gandhari Ekottarikagama-Type Sutras; Gandharan Buddhist TextsGandharan Buddhist TextsGandharan Buddhist TextsGandharan Buddhist TextsGandharan Buddhist TextsThree Gandhari Ekottarikagama-Type Sutras
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions