Western Buddhist Review
By Dhivan Thomas Jones on Fri, 21 Sep, 2018 - 16:12
By Dhivan Thomas Jones on Fri, 21 Sep, 2018 - 16:12We present here a review by Dhīvan and Kulamitra of an important new book for the study of early Buddhist literature and history:
Richard Salomon
The Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhāra: An Introduction with Selected Translations
Wisdom Publications, Somerville, MA, 2018, pb $29.95
review by Dhīvan, with a contribution by Kulamitra
In 1994, a clay pot containing ancient birch-bark scrolls appeared on the antiquities market in Pakistan, and was acquired by the British Library. Richard Salomon was one of the first scholars to inspect these fragile scrolls,...
