Congratulations, Collett. Eagerly anticipated for quite some time. Even before studying it in detail, I know this will make a significant contribution to our understanding of the formation of abhidharma. Thank you for the painstaking work.
Dan > On Mar 29, 2025, at 1:53 PM, Collett Cox via INDOLOGY > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Colleagues, > I am pleased to announce the publication of my contribution to the Gandharan > Buddhist Text series: > > Collett Cox with Andrew Glass. 2025. A Gāndhārī Abhidharma Text: British > Library Kharoṣṭhī Fragment 28. Gandharan Buddhist Texts, Volume 8. Seattle: > University of Washington Press. 594 pages, 8.5 × 11 in, 13 black-and-white > illustrations, 10 color plates. ISBN: 9780295753843. > > Further information can be found on the University of Washington Press > website: > https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295753843/a-gandhari-abhidharma-text/. The > book can be purchased as hardcopy or can be freely downloaded in PDF format > (https://doi.org/10.6069/9780295754185, or under “Links” on the University of > Washington Press website). > > Collett Cox > > > Details: A Gāndhārī Abhidharma Text: British Library Kharoṣṭhī Fragment 28, > by Collett Cox with Andrew Glass > > This eighth volume in the Gandharan Buddhist Texts (GBT) series presents an > early Indian Buddhist manuscript in the Gāndhārī language and Kharoṣṭhī > script, which records the surviving portion of a polemical scholastic text > criticizing the views of several opponents who maintain the existence of past > and future factors. The text first examines the position of one or more > unnamed opponents who defend the existence of past and future factors in > relation to the causal dynamics of action. Next, it offers a detailed > presentation of the proposition “everything exists” attributed to a > Sarvāstivādin opponent, followed by a point-by-point criticism. Since no > textual parallels have been identified in other known Buddhist texts, this > Gāndhārī text preserves important evidence for the development of early > Indian Buddhist doctrine and scholastic practice. > > Given the terse nature of scholastic texts, this volume includes chapters > that introduce the text and its arguments for those interested primarily in > its contents. These chapters examine the possible context, genre, and > historical background of the text in relation to other early Buddhist > scholastic texts. They also present a summary of its contents through a > topical outline and a more general commentary containing references to > analogous discussions in other Buddhist texts. > > As in the case of other volumes in the GBT series, this volume also discusses > the manuscript’s physical layout as well as the paleography, orthography, > phonology, morphology, and syntax of the recorded text. A transcription, > edition, and translation of the text are accompanied by detailed notes on > problematic terminology and alternative interpretations, images of both the > conserved and the reconstructed scrolls, and an index of Gāndhārī words with > Sanskrit and Pali equivalents. > > > ******************************** > Collett Cox, Professor Emerita > Asian Languages and Literature > University of Washington, Seattle, WA USA > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology
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