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Src: The Asian Studies Monitor ISSN 1329-9778
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
09 Feb 1999
Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project
Department of Asian Languages and Literature, U. Washington, Seattle, USA
Supplied note:
"The British Library / University of Washington Early Buddhist Manuscripts
Project was founded in September 1996 in order to promote the study,
editing, and publication of a unique collection of fifty-seven fragments
of Buddhist manuscripts on birch bark scrolls, written in the Kharosthi
script and the Gandhari (Prakrit) language that were acquired by the
British Library in 1994. The manuscripts date from, most likely, the first
century A.D., and as such are the oldest surviving Buddhist texts, which
promise to provide unprecedented insights into the early history of
Buddhism in north India and in central and east Asia."
Site contents: General description; Project goals; Project personnel;
Publications and presentations; Sample texts and romanization
table; Software; Related sites (Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon;
The Electronic Buddhist Texts Initiative; The International
Dunhuang Project; John Smith's Homepage; Journal of Buddhist
Ethics; Languages and Scripts of India; Rock Carvings and
Inscriptions along the Karakorum Highway; Vipassana Research
Institute).
URL http://depts.washington.edu/ebmp/
Link suggested by: Alan Grosenheider (alang@u.washington.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
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