{"title":"Author - Salomon, Richard","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"2332","title":"Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs the Dead Sea scrolls have changed our understanding of Judaism and early Christianity, so a set of twenty-nine scrolls recently acquired by the British Library promise to provide a window into a crucial phase of the history of Buddhism in India. The fragmentary birch bark scrolls, which were found inside one of a set of inscribed clay pots, are written in the Gandhari Prakrit language and in Kharosthi script. Dating from around the beginning of the Christian era, the scrolls are probably the oldest Buddhist manuscripts ever discovered. This volume introduces a project to decipher and interpret the Gandharan texts. It provides a detailed description of the manuscripts and a survey of their contents, along with a preliminary evaluation of their significance. Also included are representative samples of texts and translations. Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara will appeal to a broad audience with interests in Buddhism, comparative religion, and Asian languages.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Salomon, Richard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101546942558,"sku":"207698","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/207698.jpg?v=1760548046"},{"product_id":"2334","title":"Gandhari Version of the Rhinoceros Sutra","description":"\u003cp\u003eProminent in several Buddhist traditions, the Rhinoceros Sutra espouses the virtues of solitude, explaining the dangers of attachments, prescribing a solitary spiritual life, and discussing the nature of friends and friendship. \"British Library Fragment 5B\" is the remnant of a scroll that originally contained a complete text of the Rhinoceros Sutra. \"A Gandhari Version of the Rhinoceros Sutra\" examines in detail the literary and textual background of the sutra, describes the condition of the scroll and its reconstruction, analyses the text, comparing it with other extant versions, and presents a literal English translation. Although the original provenance of the British Library's Kharosthi scrolls is uncertain, there are strong indications that they came from Hadda in the Jalalabad Plain of eastern Afghanistan, just west of the Khyber Pass.The scrolls were most likely written during the reign of the Saka rulers, in the early first century A.D., making them in all probability the oldest Buddhist texts ever found, as well as the earliest surviving manuscripts in any Indic language. The discovery of the British Library scrolls has brought to light a previously unknown realm of Buddhist literature and scholarship, and revealed that Gandhari was one of the major literary languages of Indian Buddhism. Richard Salomon, professor of Asian languages and literature at the University of Washington, heads the team of scholars constituting the British Library\/ University of Washington Early Buddhist Manuscript Project. He is the author of \"Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara: The British Library Kharosthiz Fragments\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Salomon, Richard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101547073630,"sku":"200354","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/200354_9800a2a4-11f3-4325-9e22-59c3cfe098c8.jpg?v=1760548047"}],"url":"https:\/\/store.pariyatti.org\/collections\/salomon-richard.oembed","provider":"Pariyatti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}