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SUMMARY:Reading Too Closely: Observations on Manuscript Copying and Produc
 tion in Gilgit and Greater Gandhāra
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DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture by Charles DiSimone (Ghent)\n\nThe lecture is av
 ailable live at Zoom. Please pre-register until 07 July 2021\, 12 pm\n\nTh
 e three-hundred-year period spanning the 6–8th centuries of the Common E
 ra was a time of Buddhist predominance throughout the area known as Greate
 r Gandhāra encompassing modern Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan and Nort
 hern India. A testimony to the strong Buddhist influence in this period ma
 y be seen in the numerous manuscript materials from this time and area tha
 t have been uncovered throughout the last century\, and which are still ap
 pearing into the present. These manuscripts were copied in two distinct sc
 ripts\, Gilgit/Bamiyan Type I (sometimes referred to as Round Gupta Brāhm
 ī) and Gilgit/Bamiyan Type II (also known as Protośāradā) and may be r
 eferred to collectively as ‘Gilgit/Bamiyan Type Manuscripts’. They wer
 e produced on birch bark folios with carbon-based ink by an unclear number
  of what appear to have been professional scriptoria located variously aro
 und Greater Gandhāra\, and the manuscripts were then collected into cache
 s. The content of the manuscripts comprise Buddhist works of both Mahāyā
 na (predominantly sūtras) and Mainstream (predominantly āgama\, vinaya\,
  and avadāna) views. Taking examples from a number of collections of thes
 e Gilgit/Bamiyan Type Manuscripts\, in this talk I will present observatio
 ns on the methods and techniques employed by scribes in the copying of the
 se manuscripts\, the production of the birch bark folios that made up the 
 material support of the manuscripts\, and the spread of these manuscripts 
 both within Greater Gandhāra and beyond.\n\n\nCharles DiSimone is an FWO 
 Postdoctoral Researcher at Ghent University. He received his doctorate fro
 m Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and has held positions at the B
 uddhist Digital Resource Center\, LMU Munich\, and Mahidol University. His
  research primarily focuses upon the applications of philological\, codico
 logical\, and critical analysis of Buddhist sūtra manuscripts and literat
 ure\, both Mahāyāna and Mainstream. Recent publications include research
  on scribal practices in the Gilgit area and Greater Gandhāra and a forth
 coming book on the (Mūla-)Sarvāstivāda Dīrghāgama manuscript (Wisdom 
 2021).\n\n\nTo join the lecture\, please register here https://ruhr-uni-bo
 chum.zoom.us/meeting/register/u50scOCsqj0oHdDwnvS2QIcfq43o-frSFNIT until 7
 th of July 2021.
LOCATION:Online Event
URL:https://buddhistroad.ceres.rub.de/zh/events_zh/reading-too-closely-obs
 ervations-manuscript/
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