In Sanskrit. Known as the “Buddhist Dead Sea Scrolls,” these fragments belong to a corpus of texts found in Afghanistan. Combined with more than 1000 fragments in Berlin, the British Library, and the Schoyen collection, among others, the manuscripts contain many unknown Buddhist texts as well as the oldest witness to texts of Mahayana Buddhism. Gift of Bruce Ferrini, 2007.
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Buddhist fragments on birch bark and palm leaf. Sanskrit, 300-600.