Three Early Mahāyāna Treatises from Gandhāra : Bajaur Kharoṣṭhī Fragments 4, 6, and 11

Three Early Mahāyāna Treatises from Gandhāra : Bajaur Kharoṣṭhī Fragments 4, 6, and 11 / Andrea Schlosser.

"The Gandharan 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 tw...

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Main Author: Schlosser, Andrea (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2022.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Buddhist literature, Gandhari Prakrit > Gandhara (Pakistan and Afghanistan)
Manuscripts, Kharoṣṭhi > Gandhara (Pakistan and Afghanistan)
Buddhist literature, Gandhari Prakrit.
Manuscripts, Kharoṣṭhi.
Buddhist literature, Gandhari Prakrit
Manuscripts, Kharoṣṭhi
Gandhara (Pakistan and Afghanistan)
Asia > Gandhara
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Illustrations and Tables
  • Series Editors' Preface
  • Author's Preface
  • Conventions
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1.1. General Remarks and the Topic of the Manuscripts
  • 1.2. Summary of the Texts and Their Interrelation to Each Other
  • 1.2.1. BC 4
  • 1.2.2. BC 11
  • 1.2.3. BC 6
  • 1.3. Genre of the Texts
  • 1.3.1. Elements of Mahāyāna
  • 1.3.2. Elements of Abhidharma
  • 1.4. Context
  • 1.4.1. Prajñāpāramitā and Mahāyāna
  • 1.4.2. Prajñāpāramitā and Bodhisattvayāna
  • 1.4.3. Mahāyāna in the Earliest Chinese Translations
  • 1.4.4. Mahāyāna in Manuscripts Written in Gāndhārī
  • 1.5. Similar Texts
  • 1.6. Authorship and Purpose
  • 1.6.1. Oral / Aural Features
  • 1.6.2. Material-Based Features
  • 1.6.3. Instructions Referring to Reading the Text
  • 1.6.4. References to Writing
  • 1.6.5. Purpose
  • 1.7. Conclusion
  • Physical Description
  • 2.1. BC 4
  • 2.1.1. Preservation Status
  • 2.1.2. Reconstruction of the Scroll
  • 2.1.3. Format and Layout
  • 2.1.4. Additional / Unlocated Fragments
  • 2.2. BC 11
  • 2.2.1. Preservation Status
  • 2.2.2. Reconstruction of the Scroll
  • 2.2.3. Format and Layout
  • 2.2.4. Additional / Unlocated Fragments
  • 2.3. BC 6
  • 2.3.1. Preservation Status
  • 2.3.2. Reconstruction of the Scroll
  • 2.3.3. Format and Layout
  • 2.3.4. Additional / Unlocated Fragments
  • Paleography
  • 3.1. Writing Instrument
  • 3.2. General Features of the Hand
  • 3.3. Foot Marks
  • 3.4. Analysis of Selected Letters
  • 3.4.1. Vowel Diacritics
  • 3.4.2. Basic Signs
  • 3.4.3. Conjunct Characters
  • 3.5. Numerals
  • 3.6. Punctuation
  • 3.7. Paleographic Dating
  • Orthography
  • 4.1. Anusvāra
  • 4.2. Distribution of n / ṇ
  • 4.3. Distribution of t / d
  • 4.4. Distribution of s / s̱
  • 4.5. Modified Consonants
  • 4.6. Diacritic Additions to Consonant Signs
  • 4.7. Notation of Geminate Consonants
  • 4.8. Scribal Inconsistencies
  • 4.9. Confusion of Vowels
  • 4.10. Inconsistencies Regarding Pre- and Post-Consonantial r
  • 4.11. Oral / Aural Features
  • 4.12. Haplography (Omissions)
  • 4.13. Dittography (Erroneous Repetitions)
  • 4.14. Interlinear Insertions
  • 4.15. Corrections
  • 4.16. Nonphonetic Traces of Ink
  • Phonology
  • 5.1. Vowels
  • 5.1.1. Alternations
  • 5.1.2. Developments of Old Indo-Aryan r̥
  • 5.1.3. Reductions (Monophthongization)
  • 5.2. Consonants
  • 5.2.1. Deaspiration
  • 5.2.2. Single Consonants
  • 5.2.3. Consonant Clusters
  • 5.2.3.1. Stop + Stop
  • 5.2.3.2. Clusters with Nasal
  • 5.2.3.3. Clusters with Semivowel
  • 5.2.3.4. Clusters with Sibilant
  • 5.3. Metathesis
  • 5.4. Anaptyxis (Svarabhakti)
  • 5.5. Sandhi
  • Morphology
  • 6.1. Nominal Forms
  • 6.2. Pronouns
  • 6.3. Numbers
  • 6.3.1. Cardinal Numbers
  • 6.3.2. Ordinal Numbers
  • 6.4. Case Usage
  • 6.5. Verbal Forms
  • 6.5.1. Present
  • 6.5.2. Optative
  • 6.5.3. Imperative
  • 6.5.4. Future
  • 6.5.5. Preterite
  • 6.5.6. Absolutives (Gerunds)
  • 6.5.7. Participles

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