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Book The Language of the Kharosthi Documents from Chinese Turkestan

Download or read book The Language of the Kharosthi Documents from Chinese Turkestan written by T. Burrow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The documents discussed in this 1937 book were found by Sir Aurel Stein at the turn of the twentieth century. Mr Burrow identified the language in which they are written and interpreted their meaning. He presents a grammar of the language, with a full discussion of its relation to other Indian languages.

Book The language of the Kharosthi documents from Chinese Turkestan

Download or read book The language of the Kharosthi documents from Chinese Turkestan written by Thomas, Burrow and published by . This book was released on 193? with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Iranian Words in the Kharosthi Documents Rom Chinese Turkestan

Download or read book Iranian Words in the Kharosthi Documents Rom Chinese Turkestan written by Thomas Burrow and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Translation of the Kharosth  i Documents from Chinese Turkestan  by T  Burrow

Download or read book A Translation of the Kharosth i Documents from Chinese Turkestan by T Burrow written by and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Civilizations of Central Asia

Download or read book History of Civilizations of Central Asia written by Ahmad Hasan Dani and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Iranian Words in the Kharo     hi Documents from Chinese Turkestan

Download or read book Iranian Words in the Kharo hi Documents from Chinese Turkestan written by T. Burrow and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Non Han Literature Along the Silk Road

Download or read book Non Han Literature Along the Silk Road written by Xiao Li and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-03 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes outstanding scientific articles on documents written in ancient languages such as Tocharian, Sogdian, Khotanese, and Old Uyghur. Its chief aims are to contribute to the present state of research by adding essential findings on newly discovered historical documents; to present a multi-dimensional investigation of diverse aspects including the history, religion, art, literature, and social life along the Silk Road; and to outline potential future research directions for non-Han literature studies and inspire research into other aspects, such as economics and comparative studies.

Book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain   Ireland

Download or read book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has appendices.

Book Trade  Commerce  and the State in the Roman World

Download or read book Trade Commerce and the State in the Roman World written by Andrew Wilson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, papers by leading Roman historians and archaeologists discuss trade within the Roman Empire and beyond its frontiers between c.100 BC and AD 350, focusing especially on the role of the Roman state in shaping the institutional framework for trade. As part of a novel interdisciplinary approach to the subject, the chapters address its myriad facets on the basis of broadly different sources of evidence - historical, papyrological, andarchaeological - demonstrating how collaborations with the elite holders of wealth within the empire fundamentally changed its political character in the longer term.

Book Three G  ndh  r   Ekottarik  gama type S  tras

Download or read book Three G ndh r Ekottarik gama type S tras written by Mark Allon and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Gandhari Ekottarikagama-Type Sutras continues the Gandharan Buddhist Texts studies of the first-century A.D. birch bark scrolls in the British Library's Kharosthi manuscript collection. It describes the text found on two fragments which constitute the lower part of a scroll and consists of the remnants of three sutras. All three sutras are relatively short and have an association with the number four, which suggests that they are from a Gandhar- Ekottarikagama, a collection of short discourses grouped according to numerical principles and one of the major collections of writings in the Buddhist canon. The first sutra records a discussion in which a brahman asks the Buddha four questions. The second su-tra, like the third, depicts the Buddha preaching to monks. The structure of this sutra is based on the four postures: walking, standing, sitting, and lying down. The Buddha's discourse in the third sutra concerns the four efforts (or abandonings). The book describes the condition of the scroll and its reconstruction; examines in detail the literary and textual background of the sutras, comparing them with other extant versions and parallels in other languages; and presents a transcription of the extant text, a reconstruction, and an English translation. It includes chapters on the paleography, orthography, phonology, and morphology of the text, and offers a detailed analytic commentary. For more information go to the Early Buddhist Manuscript Project web site at http: //www.ebmp.org/

Book Religion and Chinese Society  Ancient and medieval China

Download or read book Religion and Chinese Society Ancient and medieval China written by John Lagerwey and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These volumes contain a selection of twenty-one essays presented in a conference convened jointly by the Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient and the Centre for the Study of Religion and Chinese Society of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, on "Religion and Chinese Society: The Transformation of a Field and Its Implications for the Study of Chinese Culture." The collection provides as wide a coverage as possible of recent research in the history of Chinese religion and seeks to draw some tentative conclusions about the implications for the study of Chinese religion and society in general.

Book The Silk Road

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  • Author : Valerie Hansen
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 0190218428
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book The Silk Road written by Valerie Hansen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty desert track, reaching from China to Rome. The reality was different--and far more interesting--as revealed in this new history. In The Silk Road, Valerie Hansen describes the remarkable archeological finds that revolutionize our understanding of these trade routes. For centuries, key records remained hidden--sometimes deliberately buried by bureaucrats for safe keeping. But the sands of the Taklamakan Desert have revealed fascinating material, sometimes preserved by illiterate locals who recycled official documents to make insoles for shoes or garments for the dead. Hansen explores seven oases along the road, from Xi'an to Samarkand, where merchants, envoys, pilgrims, and travelers mixed in cosmopolitan communities, tolerant of religions from Buddhism to Zoroastrianism. There was no single, continuous road, but a chain of markets that traded between east and west. China and the Roman Empire had very little direct trade. China's main partners were the peoples of modern-day Iran, whose tombs in China reveal much about their Zoroastrian beliefs. Silk was not the most important good on the road; paper, invented in China before Julius Caesar was born, had a bigger impact in Europe, while metals, spices, and glass were just as important as silk. Perhaps most significant of all was the road's transmission of ideas, technologies, and artistic motifs. The Silk Road is a fascinating story of archeological discovery, cultural transmission, and the intricate chains across Central Asia and China.

Book Linguistics in South Asia

Download or read book Linguistics in South Asia written by Murray B. Emeneau and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A New Version of the G  ndh  r   Dharmapada and a Collection of Previous birth Stories

Download or read book A New Version of the G ndh r Dharmapada and a Collection of Previous birth Stories written by Timothy Lenz and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume continues the detailed examination of the British Library Kharosthi scrolls--extremely fragile and brittle fragments of manuscript on birch-bark rolls. Although their provenance is uncertain, there are strong indications that they came from Hadda in eastern Afghanistan and were most likely written in the early first century A.D. during the reign of the Saka rulers, making them the oldest known Buddhist manuscripts. Fragments 16 and 25 are two long, relatively narrow fragments that obviously belong to the same scroll. Two texts were written on the scroll, each by a different scribe. The first text, referred to as the Gandhari London Dharmapada, represents an anthology of verses well known in the Buddhist tradition. The second text is a series of stories concerning previous births of the Buddha and of some of his disciples. For more information go to the Early Buddhist Manuscript Project web site at http://www.ebmp.org/

Book Indexes

Download or read book Indexes written by and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 1071 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Indexes".