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

[Bankei]

Andre,

That is interesting. Can you please tell us more about that dig please?

(just catching up on some old emails)

Bankei

On 22 April 2011 11:14, Andre Zuban <azuban at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > 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.'
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Hmm let's see: 88euros .....129 USD--ouch!
> >
> >  ____________________
> >
> > ----- Message d'origine -----
> > De : Gerard Fussman <mailto:gerard.fussman at college-de-france.fr>
> > À : INDOL0GY at LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK
> > Envoyé : jeudi 21 avril 2011 17:50
> > Objet : new publication
> >
> > New book :
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Available from De Boccard, 11 rue de Médicis, 75006 Paris,  <
> > http://www.deboccard.com/> http://www.deboccard.com/
> >
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