BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ X-ORIGINAL-URL: X-WR-CALDESC:Events for 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190228T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190228T170000 DTSTAMP:20260526T150531 CREATED:20231020T161826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231020T161826Z UID:4783-1551340800-1551373200@www.drbu.edu SUMMARY:Ancient Buddhist Manuscripts from GandhÄra with Dr. Stefan Baums DESCRIPTION:The earliest preserved Buddhist manuscripts (as well as the oldest preserved manuscripts from South Asia) were written on birchâ€bark scrolls in the Middle Indian language GÄndhÄrÄ« and the KharoṣṭhÄ« script. The were produced between the first century BCE and the third century CE\, and only recently rediscovered in the ruins of ancient Buddhist monasteries in what is now Pakistan and Afghanistan. In antiquity\, this region was one of the centers of the Buddhist world\, and it is from here that Buddhism was first brought to the Silk Road and\, ultimately\, to China. It has become clear that many of the earliest Chinese translations of Buddhist texts were based on GÄndhÄrÄ« originals\, so the newly discovered manuscripts also shed light on early Chinese Buddhist literature. This lecture will provide an introduction to the Buddhism of ancient GandhÄra and its rediscovered literature\, show how scholars decipher and study the GÄndhÄrÄ« manuscripts\, and discuss their relationship to Pali and Chinese Buddhist literature. \nStefan Baums teaches Sanskrit\, Prakrit and Pali language and literature and Buddhist Studies at the Institute for Indology and Tibetology of the University of Munich and serves as lead researcher of the Buddhist Manuscripts from GandhÄra project at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Before joining the University of Munich\, he held positions at the University of Copenhagen\, the University of Washington\, the University of California\, Berkeley\, and Leiden University. His research interests include Buddhist philology and epigraphy\, classical Sanskrit court literature\, the development of Buddhist hermeneutics\, and the description of GÄndhÄrÄ« language and literature. His current work focuses on the decipherment and edition of four GÄndhÄrÄ« manuscripts containing commentaries on early Buddhist verses and the SaṃgÄ«tisÅ«tra and a study of the historical connections and exegetical principles of this group of texts. He is editor of the Dictionary of GÄndhÄrī and coâ€editor of the GandhÄran Buddhist Texts series. URL:/event/ancient-buddhist-manuscripts-from-gandhara-with-dr-stefan-baums/ CATEGORIES:Colloquium Lecture Series END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR