Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhara - 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 Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhara write by Salomon Richard. This book was released on 2018-04-17. Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhara available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Silk Road. In what is now northern Pakistan, the civilizations in the region called Gandhara became increasingly important centers for the development of Buddhism, reaching their apex under King Kaniska of the Kusanas in the second century CE. Gandhara has long been known for its Greek-Indian synthesis in architecture and statuary, but until about twenty years ago, almost nothing was known about its literature. The insights provided by manuscripts unearthed over the last few decades show that Gandhara was indeed a vital link in the early development of Buddhism, instrumental in both the transmission of Buddhism to China and the rise of the Mahayana tradition. The Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhara surveys what we know about Gandhara and its Buddhism, and it also provides translations of a dozen different short texts, from similes and stories to treatises on time and reality.
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.
Three Early Mahāyāna Treatises from Gandhāra
Three Early Mahāyāna Treatises 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 Three Early Mahāyāna Treatises from Gandhāra write by Andrea Schlosser. This book was released on 2022-02-15. Three Early Mahāyāna Treatises from Gandhāra available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Gandh?ran 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 G?ndh?r? language and Kharo??h? 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 Gandh?ran Buddhist Texts series that is devoted to texts belonging to the Mah?y?na 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 G?ndh?r? words with Sanskrit and Pali equivalents, and a preliminary transliteration of the scroll BC 19.
Gandharan Buddhist Reliquaries
Gandharan Buddhist Reliquaries - 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 Gandharan Buddhist Reliquaries write by David Jongeward. This book was released on 2012. Gandharan Buddhist Reliquaries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gandhara, the ancient name for the region around modern Peshawar in northern Pakistan, was of pivotal importance in the production of Buddhist texts and art in the first centuries CE. Since the mid-nineteenth century, excavations of Gandharan monastery sites have revolutionized the study of early Buddhism. Among the treasures unearthed are hundreds of reliquaries--containers housing relics of the Buddha. This volume combines art history, Buddhist history, ancient Indian history, archaeology, epigraphy, linguistics, and numismatics to clarify the significance and function of these reliquaries. The story begins with the Buddha's last days, his death and funerary arrangements, and the distribution of the cremated remains, which initiated a relic cult. Chapters describe Gandharan reliquary types and subgroups, the archaeological and historical significance of collections, and the paleographic and linguistic interpretation of the inscriptions on the reliquaries. The 400 reliquaries illustrated and surveyed are from museums and private collections in Pakistan, India, Japan, Europe, and North America. Stone is the primary material of construction, along with bronze, gold, and silver. Shapes range from spherical and cylindrical to miniature stupas, a configuration that provides valuable information about the history of this Buddhist monumental form. David Jongeward is a visiting scholar at the Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. Elizabeth Errington is curator of the Charles Masson Project, British Museum Department of Coins and Medals. Richard Salomon is professor of Asian languages and literature at the University of Washington. Stefan Baums is assistant adjunct professor of South and Southeast Asian studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and a research fellow at the School of Asian Studies, Leiden University.
A Gāndhārī Version of the Rhinoceros Sūtra
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.
