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From Birch Bark to Digital Data

Harrison, Paul M. [u.a.] [Hrsg.]:
From Birch Bark to Digital Data: Recent Advances in Buddhist Manuscript Research : Papers Presented at the Conference Indic Buddhist Manuscripts: the State of the Field, Stanford, June 15 - 19, 2009 / ed. by Paul Harrison and Jens-Uwe Hartmann. - Wien : Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2014. - XXII, 403 S. - (Denkschriften / Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse ; 460) (Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens ; 80)
ISBN 978-3-7001-7581-0
EUR 119,00
DDC: 091.0882943

Beschreibung
The sensational manuscript finds of the last two decades have led to a new burst of interest in the literary heritage of Indian Buddhism. Discovered mainly in Pakistan and Afghanistan, these finds have opened up fresh and often quite unexpected perspectives on the historical development of this religious and philosophical tradition. Some fragments date from the end of the first millennium BCE, and are therefore older than any manuscripts previously known from the Indian cultural sphere. At the same time their content throws light on the surprising ways in which early strands of Buddhism unfolded. All this has led to intensive philological efforts to preserve this legacy, while simultaneously bringing long-neglected manuscript finds from the last century back into view, and setting off another phase of intensive work on them. The volume aims to record all these finds systematically, to describe their significance for Indian Buddhist literature, and above all to present the current state of work on them. The individual contributions are organized by the places where the manuscripts come from, with each find or collection described by the specialists working on it. For the first time, therefore, a complete picture of the Indian Buddhist manuscript tradition is presented, which shows the pieces of the mosaic which have survived, while at the same time giving us an idea of how much has been lost. What is more, it affords a clear view of the foundations of all modern representations of Buddhism, insofar as these are based on literary sources in Indian languages. [Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften]

Inhalt
Paul Harrison and Jens-Uwe Hartmann:
Introduction
Richard Salomon:
Gāndhārī Manuscripts in the British Library, Schøyen and Other Collections
Mark Allon:
The Senior Kharoṣṭhī Manuscripts
Collett Cox:
Gāndhārī Kharoṣṭhī Manuscripts: Exegetical Texts
Harry Falk and Ingo Strauch:
The Bajaur and Split Collections of Kharoṣṭhī Manuscripts within the Context of Buddhist Gāndhārī Literature
Oskar von Hinüber:
The Gilgit Manuscripts: An Ancient Buddhist Library in Modern Research
Jens-Uwe Hartmann and Klaus Wille:
The Manuscript of the Dīrghāgama and the Private Collection in Virginia
Jens Braarvig:
The Schøyen Collection
Kazunobu Matsuda:
Japanese Collections of Buddhist Manuscript Fragments from the Same Region as the Schøyen Collection
Lore Sander:
Dating and Localizing Undated Manuscripts
Klaus Wille:
Survey of the Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Turfan Collection (Berlin)
Jens-Uwe Hartmann and Klaus Wille:
The Central Asian Sanskrit Fragments in the Pelliot Collection (Paris)
Klaus Wille:
Survey of the Identified Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Hoernle, Stein, and Skrine Collections of the British Library (London)
Jens-Uwe Hartmann and Klaus Wille:
Further Collections of Sanskrit Manuscripts from Central Asia
Shin’ichirō Hori:
From the Kathmandu Valley to the Tarim Basin
DUAN Qing:
Indic and Khotanese Manuscripts: Some New Finds and Findings from Xinjiang
Paul Harrison:
Earlier Inventories of Sanskrit Manuscripts in Tibet: A Synoptic List of Titles
Saerji:
Indic Buddhist Manuscripts in the People’s Republic of China: The Peking University Project
Helmut Krasser:
Indic Buddhist Manuscripts in Vienna: A Sino-Austrian Co-operative Project, with Methodological Remarks on Śāstric “Urtexts”
LUO Hong:
Sanskrit Manuscript Projects in the China Tibetology Research Center
Yoshiyasu Yonezawa and Jundō Nagashima:
The Sanskrit Manuscript Research Project at Taisho University
Michael Hahn:
Various Aspects of Dealing with Buddhist codices unici
Peter Skilling:
Reflections on the Pali Literature of Siam:
Bhikkhu Ñāṇatusita:
Pali Manuscripts of Sri Lanka

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PAUL HARRISON is Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University. Profile page.
JENS-UWE HARTMANN is professor at the Institute for Indology, Ludwig Maximilians-Universität München. Profile page.

Quellen: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften; Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften; Mitteilung in der Mailing-Liste H-Buddhism, 15. März 2014
Bildquelle: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
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