A Gāndhārī Version of the Rhinoceros Sūtra - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Gāndhārī Version of the Rhinoceros Sūtra write by Richard Salomon. This book was released on 2000. A Gāndhārī Version of the Rhinoceros Sūtra available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Launches the series of text editions and studies of the birth bark scrolls in the British Library's Kharosthi manuscript collection, dating from about the first century AD. Most of the Gandhari fragments have yet to be identified, but the Rhinoceros Sutra is also known in Pali and Sanskrit versions. A 100-page introduction to the language and manuscript is followed by a transcribed text with translation and an annotated text with translation and commentary. Color photographs of the fragments themselves are also included. Ghandhari words are indexed, but not subjects. c. Book News Inc.
A Gandhari Version of the Rhinoceros Sutra
A Gandhari Version of the Rhinoceros Sutra - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Gandhari Version of the Rhinoceros Sutra write by Richard Salomon. This book was released on 2014-11-01. A Gandhari Version of the Rhinoceros Sutra available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Prominent in several Buddhist traditions, the Rhinoceros Sutra espouses the virtues of solitude, explaining the dangers of attachments, prescribing a solitary spiritual life, and discussing the nature of friends and friendship. British Library Fragment 5B is the remnant of a scroll that originally contained a complete text of the Rhinoceros Sutra. A Gandhari Version of the Rhinoceros Sutra examines in detail the literary and textual background of the sutra, describes the condition of the scroll and its reconstruction, analyzes the text, comparing it with other extant versions, and presents a literal English translation. Although the original provenance of the British Library’s Kharosthi scrolls is uncertain, there are strong indications that they came from Hadda in the Jalalabad Plain of eastern Afghanistan, just west of the Khyber Pass. The scrolls were most likely written during the reign of the Saka rulers, in the early first century A.D., making them in all probability the oldest Buddhist texts ever found, as well as the earliest surviving manuscripts in any Indic language. The discovery of the British Library scrolls has brought to light a previously unknown realm of Buddhist literature and scholarship, and revealed that Gandhari was one of the major literary languages of Indian Buddhism. For more information go to the Early Buddhist Manuscript Project web site at http://www.ebmp.org/
Script and Image
Script and Image - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Script and Image write by Adalbert J. Gail. This book was released on 2006. Script and Image available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 depth, diversity and sophistication of recent studies in
Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhāra
Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhāra - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhāra write by Richard Salomon. This book was released on 1999. Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhāra available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara will appeal to a broad audience with interests in Buddhism, comparative religion, and Asian languages."--BOOK JACKET.
An Elemental Thing
An Elemental Thing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Elemental Thing write by Eliot Weinberger. This book was released on 2007-05-17. An Elemental Thing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Internationally acclaimed as one of the most innovative writers today, Eliot Weinberger has taken the essay into unexplored territories on the borders of poetry and narrative where the only rule, according to the author, is that all the information must be verifiable. With An Elemental Thing, Weinberger turns from his celebrated political chronicles to the timelessness of the subjects of his literary essays. With the wisdom of a literary archaeologist-astronomer-anthropologist-zookeeper, he leads us through histories, fables, and meditations about the ten thousand things in the universe: the wind and the rhinoceros, Catholic saints and people named Chang, the Mandaeans on the Iran-Iraq border and the Kaluli in the mountains of New Guinea. Among the thirty-five essays included are a poetic biography of the prophet Muhammad, which was praised by the London Times for its "great beauty and grace," and "The Stars," a reverie on what's up there that has already been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, and Maori.
