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Have
you ever wondered, when in old books you see these caches
of ancient manuscripts found by archaeologists and
adventurers in the past, what ever happened to the texts
they discovered? |
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The
man with the candle was
Paul Pelliot, and the cache included
several of the manuscripts, now in Paris, used in
Craig Jamieson's A Study of
Nagarjuna's Twenty Verses
(New York : Lang, 2000,
ISBN 0820418994). Some of the others used in the book
were brought to London by
Sir Marc Aurel Stein. |
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Anyone
interested in the second-century Buddhist philosopher
Nagarjuna will be interested in
this book. And anyone interested in the
Dunhuang cache of manuscripts
would also be interested in this book. As the Dalai
Lama's translator, Geshe Thupten Jinpa has said, this is,
"a remarkable example of what a combination of
Sanskrit and Tibetan scholarship can do to illuminate the
meaning of ancient Buddhist texts". |
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New York : Peter Lang, 2000 |
ISBN: 0820418994 |
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New Delhi : D.K. Printworld, 2001 |
ISBN:
8124601755 |
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