[Buddha-l] Buddhist Manuscript

[James Ward]

Bernie, thanks for posting the link to this article.

James Ward


On Nov 30, 2005, at 5:34 PM, Bernie Simon wrote:

> 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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