Khotanese Manuscripts from Chinese Turkestan in the British Library
Hardback (Published)
(January 2002)
ISBN: 9780712347983
Price: $120.00
Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum. Part II: Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian Periods and of Eastern Iran and Central Asia. Vol. V: Saka. Texts VI. LXXVIII, 609 pages, [4] sheets: illustrations, maps; 26 cm. This catalogue describes the 2500 Khotanese manuscripts in the British Library’s Aurel Stein and other Central Asian collections, including Buddhist and secular texts that enhance our understanding of northern Mahayana (as well as Vajrayana at Dunhuang) and the history of the southern Silk Road in the 5th-10th centuries. It includes a comprehensive introduction to the collections and the historical background of the manuscripts.
Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum. Part II: Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian Periods and of Eastern Iran and Central Asia. Vol. V: Saka. Texts VI. LXXVIII, 609 pages, [4] sheets: illustrations, maps; 26 cm. This catalogue describes the 2500 Khotanese manuscripts in the British Library’s Aurel Stein and other Central Asian collections, including Buddhist and secular texts that enhance our understanding of northern Mahayana (as well as Vajrayana at Dunhuang) and the history of the southern Silk Road in the 5th-10th centuries. It includes a comprehensive introduction to the collections and the historical background of the manuscripts.
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