We are pleased to announce the availability of a digital version of the Pali Text Society’s new Dictionary of Pāli (DoP, currently covering words beginning with a – bh, written by Margaret Cone) on Gandhari.org. It joins the Society’s older Pali-English Dictionary (PTSD, Rhys Davids and Stede 1921–25), Monier-Williams’ Sanskrit and Edgerton’s Buddhist Hybrid Sankrit […]
Our Dictionary of Gāndhārī has reached 10,000 articles with a total of 69,708 references. Article ten thousand is Savavivhu, the name of a Buddha of the past mentioned in a Gāndhārī parallel to the Bahubuddhasūtra of the Mahāvastu. As in the Mahāvastu, in our text this buddha succeeds the buddha Dīpaṃkara and precedes the buddha […]
Last Saturday, we were at the Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts in Jinshan, Taiwan, at the award ceremony for the 2020 Aming Tu Prize that was bestowed on us for our work on Gandhari.org. Our heartfelt thanks go out to the award committee and to our wonderful hosts at Dharma Drum. In our acceptance […]
Twenty years ago this year, we began our collaboration on building this website, compiling a complete text and image corpus of Gāndhārī artefacts, and writing our Dictionary, Bibliography, and Catalog. The amount of work involved – both on the content and on the technology supporting it – has at times been staggering, but we trust […]
In June 2021, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York had just reopened after the first wave of the pandemic, I had the opportunity to visit and inspect a very special new arrival: the Year Five Buddha Triad (CKI 232), which had been been sold at auction at Christie’s the year before and […]
Our Dictionary of Gāndhārī has reached 9,000 articles, now with a total of 54,684 references. Article nine thousand is mahajiṭuṃgha, which occurs in a wooden document preserved in the Qinghai Tibetan Medical Culture Museum. This document is a ruling in regnal year 25 of King Aṃgoka. It is the only attestation of maha- ‘great’ with […]
Our Dictionary of Gāndhārī has reached 8,000 articles with a total of 41,713 references. Article eight thousand is ñadimitrasalohida, from a fragmentary frieze inscription found at the Taxila Dharmarājika stūpa and wishing for the health of the “relatives, friends and kinsmen” of the donor. The array of compounds expressing the same general notion, attested as […]
We are proud to announce that we have been awarded the 2020 Aming Tu Prize for Gandhari.org (see also the announcement on the H-Buddhism network). The Aming Tu Prize is bestowed once every three years by the Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts for an “outstanding, creative contribution to Digital Buddhist Studies.”
We have updated our website, introducing the new software features that we announced a while ago. One of the immediate benefits of the update is that Dictionary definitions are now displayed in popups when clicking on a word in context; clicking on the heading of the popup opens the full Dictionary article for the lexeme […]
Five years ago, I made available an Outline of Gāndhārī Grammar that had grown out of my classes at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Leiden and the University of Munich. This past July, I updated my Outline for another class that I taught in the Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics. […]