Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā
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Placement of the Gāndhārī fragments: 1) hic et seq., 2) hic et seq., 3) hic et seq., 4) hic et seq., 5) hic et seq., 6) hic et seq.
Placement of the Kuṣāṇa fragments: 1) hic et seq., 2) hic et seq., 3) hic et seq., 4) hic et seq., 5) hic et seq., 6) hic et seq., 7) hic et seq., 8-9) hic et seq., 10-11) hic et seq., 12) hic et seq., 13-14) hic et seq., 15) hic et seq., 16) hic et seq. There are often empty records between the fragments, where only ‘No Kuṣāṇa’ is noted.
Abbreviations for the whole library.
Bibliography:
Vaidya, P.L. (1960), ed., Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā, Darbhanga (Buddhist Sanskrit Texts, 4).
Conze, Edward (1973), tr., The perfection of wisdom in eight thousand lines & its verse summary.
Lore Sander (2000): “Fragments of an Aṣṭasāhasrikā manuscript from the Kuṣāṇa period”, in BMSC vol. i. Oslo.
Falk, Harry and Seishi Karashima. 2012. “A First‐Century Prajñāpāramitā Manuscript from Gandhāra – parivarta 1 (Texts from the Split Collection 1).” Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā 創価大学国際仏教学高等研究所年報 Annual Report of The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University 15: 19–61, pdf.
———. 2013. “A First-Century Prajñāpāramitā Manuscript from Gandhāra – parivarta 5 (Texts from the Split Collection 2).” Sōka daigaku kokusai bukkyōgaku kōtō kenkyūjo nenpō 創価大学国際仏教学高等研究所年報 Annual Report of The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University 16: 97–169, pdf.
Credits:
Sanskrit and English, Andrea Schlosser, November 2104; Kuṣāṇa, Jens Braarvig, January 2015; Gāndhārī, Andrea Schlosser, April 2015; Chinese (Kumārajīva) Seongho Choi, March 2106.
The input of the Aṣṭasāhasrikā is the initiative of Andrea Schlosser.
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