[Buddha-l] [INDOLOGY] Fw: new publication

[Andre Zuban]

That's interesting!

I participated in the archeological digs near Termez in the 90s. We
excavated the Kara-Tepe Buddhist cave monastery on the bank of the Amudaria
(right on the Uzbekistan-Afghanistan border).

Andre

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 4:55 PM, JKirkpatrick <jkirk at spro.net> wrote:

> X-posted by Joanna K.
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> Excerpt from mostly deleted announcement due to size requirements on this
> list: 'These inscriptions are the best evidence we have for life in
> mahāsāṃghika monasteries in Bactria from c. 50 A.D. to c. 650.'
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> This publication lends additonal support to the idea that Buddhism in
> central Asia had survived into the Umayyad period--and IMO had influenced
> some 'heterodox ideas' (even if it was early  to use the term heterodox!) in
> Islam. Even if there were no monasteries in east-coastal Mediterranean,
> central Asian monks for long had been traveling along lengthy east-west
> corridors and the silk roads. It's inconceivable to me that they had not
> reached the west coasts, where the Umayyads predominated, in their
> peregrinations.
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> Hmm let's see: 88euros .....129 USD--ouch!
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> Envoyé : jeudi 21 avril 2011 17:50
> Objet : new publication
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> New book :
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> Shakirjan PIDAEV, Tukhtash ANNAEV et Gérard FUSSMAN, Monuments bouddhiques
> de Termez/Termez Buddhist Monuments, I, Catalogue des inscriptions sur
> poteries par Gérard FUSSMAN avec une contribution de Nicholas SIMS-WILLIAMS
> et la collaboration d’Éric OLLIVIER, Publications de l’Institut de
> Civilisation Indienne, fasc. 791 et 792, Paris,  280 pages including 16
> colour plates and 80 black and white plates. Euros 88.
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> Available from De Boccard, 11 rue de Médicis, 75006 Paris,  <
> http://www.deboccard.com/> http://www.deboccard.com/
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