ANCIENT BUDDHIST SCROLLS FROM GANDHARA.



1999


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As the Dead Sea scrolls have changed our understanding of Judaism and early Christianity, so a set of 29 scrolls acquired by the British Library promise to provide a window into a defining period of the history of Buddhism in India. The fragmentary birch bark scrolls, which were found inside an inscribed clay pot, are written in the Gandhari Prakrit language of the region around present-day Peshawar. Dating from around the beginning of the Christian era, the scrolls are probably the oldest Buddhist manuscripts yet discovered. This volume, illustrated with drawings and color photographs, introduces a project to decipher and interpret the Gandharan texts. It provides a detailed description of the manuscripts and a survey of their contents.

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