ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi

GENERAL INTRODUCTION xiii

CONVENTIONS xv

ABBREVIATIONS xvii

 

I) Sūtra:

a) Āgama:

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1. Fragments of an Ekottarikāgama Manuscript in Gāndhārī Chanida Jantrasrisalai, Timothy Lenz, Lin Qian, Richard Salomon 1

2. Fragments of the Itivṛttaka Mitsuyo Demoto 123

3. A Folio of a Parallel to the Śalyasūtra or Sunakkhattasutta Jens-Uwe Hartmann, Klaus Wille 151

4. A Possible Sanskrit Parallel to the Pali Uruvelasutta Peter Skilling, Saerji, Prapod Assavavirulhakarn 159

 

b) Mahāyāna:

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5. Fragments of a Gāndhārī Version of the Bhadrakalpikasūtra Stefan Baums, Andrew Glass, Kazunobu Matsuda 183

6. The Bodhisattvapiṭakasūtra in Gāndhārī Stefan Baums, Jens Braarvig, Timothy J. Lenz, Fredrik Liland, Kazunobu Matsuda, Richard Salomon 267

7. The Final Folio of a Version of the Larger Sukhāvatīvyūhasūtra and Fragments of a Text Possibly Related to the Tathāgatabimbaparivarta Paul Harrison, Jens-Uwe Hartmann, Kazunobu Matsuda 283

8. Fragments of the Ratnaketuparivarta Chanwit Tudkeao 295

9. A Gāndhārī Fragment of the Sarvapuṇyasamuccayasamādhisūtra Paul Harrison, Timothy Lenz, Lin Qian, Richard Salomon 311

 

II) Vinaya:

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10. More Folios of the Prātimokṣa-Vibhaṅga of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottaravādins in Early Western Gupta Script Masanori Shōno 321

 

III) Miscellaneous:

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11. A Kuṣāṇa Brāhmī Fragment of a Commentary on aśubhabhāvanā and the Formation of the Foetus Jens W. Borgland, Jens Braarvig 329

12. Āryaśūra’s Jātakamālā and Another Story Collection Jens-Uwe Hartmann, Kazunobu Matsuda 333

13. A New Fragment of the Jyotiṣkāvadāna Stefan Baums 345

14. Two Mahādeva Fragments Jonathan A. Silk 351

15. Another Fragment of Mātṛceṭa’s Prasādapratibhodbhava Jens-Uwe Hartmann 359

16. Stories about Saṅgha and His Pupil Paul Harrison, Jens-Uwe Hartmann 361

17. Thirty-two Fragments Written by Bamiyan Kharoṣṭhī Scribe 7 Richard Salomon 367

18. Protective Verses for Travellers: a Fragment of the Diśāsauvastikagāthās Related to the Scriptures of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottaravādins Vincent Tournier 407

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY 439

FACSIMILES Prepared by Gudrun Melzer 457

CONTRIBUTORS 507