The Āṭānāṭīya- and the Āṭānāṭikasūtra – Sūtra for Protecting Monks and Nuns in Wilderness

The Sanskrit text in the Dīrghāgama manuscript from Gilgit and a re-edition from fragments found on the Northern Silk Route

Edited by Siglinde Dietz Edited by Lore Sander

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Extent: 142 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Buddhist Studies

Series: Berliner Turfantexte

Series volume number: 54

Language: English, Sanskrit

Paperback (Forthcoming)

(October 2026)

ISBN: 9782503612409

Price: $82.00

The Sanskrit text in the D?rgh?gama manuscript from Gilgit and a re-edition from fragments found on the Northern Silk Route


The Atanatiyasutra is part of the only Sanskrit manuscript known so far containing the complete Dirghagama, however fragmentary in parts. The Atanatiya is sutra 237 in the sequence of sutras. It belongs to the Yuganipata, the “Twin Section”, consisting of pairs of sutras. Unlike the nearly complete Sanskrit text preserved from the Atanatiyasutra from Gilgit only remnants of this sutra have been found at several sacred places along the northern trade route round the Taklamakan desert.

  • Edited by Sander, Lore
  • With Dietz, Siglinde