Dating between the 1st and 3rd centuries BCE, and considered the most senior Indian manuscripts, Gandharan Buddhist writings are the oldest manuscripts discovered to date. Written in Gandhari ...

He explained that the earliest references to the Ramayana entered the Han cultural sphere primarily through Buddhist texts, indicating that while the entire epic was not fully integrated ...

[T]he Bible and the Koran and sacred texts such as the Buddhist scriptures of the East, they all sort of come together in the same way.” The exhibition is called Copying Sacred Texts — a ...

Exhibition of Buddhist sutras, though written in Chinese for a religion imported from India, shows how Japanese artists made them their own The Lotus Sutra (chapters 20-23) shows an unusual ...