2018

Mark Allon

  • Senior Lecturer
  • University of Sydney, Australia
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Project

An Edition, Translation, and Study of a Gandhari Version of the Sramanyaphala-sutra, the Discourse on the Fruits of Living the Ascetic Life: Senior Kharosthi Manuscript RS 2

Program

The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Grants for Critical Editions and Scholarly Translations

Department

Indian Subcontinental Studies

Abstract

The research proposed will produce for the first time a diplomatic edition, reconstruction, English translation and study of a recently discovered Gandhari version of the Sramanyaphala-sutra, the Discourse on the Fruits of Living the Ascetic Life (Senior Kharosthi manuscript RS 2), which represents a Dharmaguptaka version of an important and popular early canonical discourse (sutra) that has its primary parallels in the Dighanikaya/Dirghagama preserved in Pali, Sanskrit, and Chinese, and in the Sanghabhedavastu of the Mulasarvastivada Vinaya preserved in Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Chinese. The resulting monograph will be published in the Gandharan Buddhist Text series, University of Washington Press, which will make this valuable text available to scholars and the wider public.