[Buddha-l] Buddhist Manuscript

[Bernie Simon]

Interesting.

A birch bark manuscript from a Buddhist monastery, believed to have 
been written in the first or second century A.D., was recently acquired 
by the University of Washington Libraries and will become a key 
component of the Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project. ... The manuscript 
consists of eight fragments of a scroll and is written in the Gandhari 
language, a derivative of Sanskrit ... The UW manuscript comes from a 
branch of Buddhist scholastic literature known as abhidharma. ... This 
text is very exciting, because it is the earliest commentary that we've 
found. All other early texts have been extensively reworked.

http://www.uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=3487

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