- The Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhara
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction: The Rediscovery of Gandhāran Buddhist Literature
- Part I. Contexts
- 1. The World of Gandhāran Buddhism
- Gandhāra and India’s Northwest Frontier
- The Bloody History of Paradise
- Early Buddhism and Gandhāra
- Aśoka and the Mauryan Empire
- The Indo-Greeks
- The Age of the Scythian Kingdoms
- The Climax of Gandhāran Buddhist Culture under the Kuṣāṇa Empire
- The Decline of Buddhism in Gandhāra
- The Legacy of Gandhāran Buddhism
- 2. Buddhist Manuscripts, Buddhist Languages, and Buddhist Canons
- 3. The Buddhist Literature of Gandhāra
- The Scope of Gandhāran Buddhist Literature
- Canonical and Paracanonical Sūtras
- Vinaya Texts
- Abhidharma and Scholastic Literature
- Edifying Narratives
- Mahāyāna Texts
- Miscellaneous Texts
- What Did Gandhāran Buddhists Read?
- Oral and Written Texts and Canons
- Was There a Gāndhārī Canon?
- The Problem of School Affiliation
- Part II. Texts
- Sūtras in Prose
- Poetic Texts
- Legends and Previous-Life Stories
- 5. Songs of Lake Anavatapta
- a. Mahākāśyapa
- b. Nanda
- c. Śroṇa Koṭiviṃśa
- g. Yaśas
- e. Piṇḍola Bharadvāja
- f. Vāgīśa
- g. Nandika
- h. Kusuma
- 6. Six Stories of Previous Lives and Other Legends
- a. The Story of a Rich Man
- b. The Previous Life of the Bodhisattva as a Merchant
- c. The Previous Life of the Bodhisattva as Prince Sudaṣṇa
- d. The Previous Life of Ājñāta Kauṇḍinya as a Potter
- e. The Previous Life of Ānanda as a Prince
- f. The Monk and the Saka
- 7. Avadāna Legends
- 8. The Many Buddhas Sūtra
- Scholarly Commentaries and Debates
- 9. A Commentary on the Sūtra of Chanting Together
- 10. A Commentary on Canonical Verses
- 11. An Abhidharma Treatise on Time and Existence
- The Emerging Mahāyāna
- Conclusions
- Appendices
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Image Credits
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright
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