Two Gandhari Manuscripts

Salomon, Richard:
Two Gāndhārī Manuscripts of the "Songs of Lake Anavatapta" (Anavatapta-gāthā) : British Library Kharoṣṭhī Fragment 1 and Senior Scroll 14 / Richard Salomon with contributions by Andrew Glass. - Seattle, Wash. : University of Washington Press, 2009 [laut Verlag: 2008]. - xxv, 444 S. : Ill. - (Gandhāran Buddhist texts ; 5)
ISBN 978-0-295-98905-1 / 0-295-98905-X
US$ 95,00

Beschreibung
This fifth volume in the Gandharan Buddhist Texts series (GBT) presents two fragmentary manuscripts of the poem "Songs of Lake Anavatapta." Previously known from versions in Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, and Chinese, the two recently discovered Gandhari-language versions confirm the poem's popularity in the ancient Buddhist world.
   "The "Songs of Lake Anavatapta" consists of a series of narrations by the Buddha's foremost disciples (and finally by the Buddha himself) in which each reveals his own complex karmic history over many past lives and explains how, as a result of good deeds, he has come to be an enlightened disciple of the Buddha.
   An important theme is the complexity of karma, whereby not only the enlightened beings but even the Buddha himself suffer the effects of remnants of bad karma from evil deeds long-ago. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Illustrations and Tables
Preface
Format, Transcription, and Citation System
Abbreviations
Part I. The Anavatapta-Gāthā and Its New Gāndhārī Versions
Part II. The British Library Manuscript of the Anavatapta-Gāthā: British Library Karoṣṭhī Fragment 1
Part III. The Senior Manuscript of the Anavatapta-Gāthā: Senior Scroll 14
Appendix 1: Text and Translation of Mahākāśyapa's Recitation from the Sanskrit and Tibetan Texts
Appendix 2: Concordance of Verses in Mahākāśyapa's Recitation
References
Work Index to the AG-Gl
Word Index to the AG-Gs

Autor
Richard Salomon is professor of Sanskrit in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at University of Washington and director of the University of Washington Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project. He is the author of Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara and A Gandhari Version of the Rhinoceros Sutra. Faculty profile.

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