1. Special Contributions to the 25th Anniversary of the Lotus Sutra Manuscript Series Project.
2. Author Affiliation: Soka University, Japan.
摘要
The so-called “Gilgit manuscripts” are a corpus of Buddhist texts discovered in 1931 from the ruins of what was previously assumed to be a stūpa in the village of Naupur (Navapura; located amidst the Karakoram Mountains at an altitude of about 1500 m, in what is now Pakistan-occupied Kashmir) near the Gilgit River. Excavation was done twice in this place and what was excavated is called “Gilgit manuscripts” in a narrow sense. In recent years, manuscripts written in the same script have been discovered from north-west India including the area around Gilgit; these can also be called “Gilgit manuscripts” in a broader sense. This article deals with the collection of the National Archives of India, which accounts for the majority of Gilgit manuscripts found at Naupur in 1931.
目次
1.1. Discovery of the manuscripts (The first accidental excavation) 168 1.2. The second excavation 169 1.3. Division and transfer of the manuscripts 170 2.1. New Delhi collection 170 2.2. Classification of manuscripts 171 2.3. Scripts used 173 3.1. Srinagar collection 173 3.2. Ujjain collection 173 3.3. Manuscripts preserved outside India 173 4. What was the site? 174 Notes 176 Figure References 180 About the Author 181
