CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi

GENERAL INTRODUCTION xiii

CONVENTIONS xvii

ABBREVIATIONS xix

 

TEXT EDITIONS

1. Fragments of an Aṣṭasāhasrikā manuscript from the Kuṣāṇa period (Lore Sander) 1

2. The Caṃgīsūtra of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottaravādins (Torkel Brekke) 53

3. The Mahāyāna Sutra manuscript 63

1. Introduction 63

2. Śrīmālādevīsiṃhanādanirdeśa (Kazunobu Matsuda) 65

3. A Mahāyāna version of the Pravāraṇāsūtra (Kazunobu Matsuda) 77

4. Sarvadharmāpravṛttinirdeśa (Jens Braarvig) 81

5. Ajātaśatrukaukṛtyavinodanāsūtra (Paul Harrison, Jens-Uwe Hartmann) 167

6. Unidentified fragments (Kazunobu Matsuda, Jens-Uwe Hartmann, Jens Braarvig) 217

 

4. Fragments from the Aśoka legend (Klaus Wille) 219

5. A fragment of the Prātimokṣa-Vibhaṅga of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottaravādins (Seishi Karashima) 233

6. Kharoṣṭhī fragments of a Gāndhārī version of the Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra

(Mark Allon, Richard Salomon) 243

7. A Bactrian Buddhist manuscript (Nicholas Sims-Williams) 275

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY 279

APPENDIX: A brief paleographical analysis of the Brāhmī manuscripts in volume I (Lore Sander) 285

ADDENDUM: Two additional fragments of the Ajātaśatrukaukṛtyavinodanāsūtra 301

FACSIMILES I-XII