{"id":135,"date":"2014-08-30T23:24:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T21:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/?p=135"},"modified":"2016-10-14T04:40:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T02:40:56","slug":"manuscript-growth-and-episodic-composition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"Manuscript Growth and Episodic Composition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, at the XVIIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies in Vienna, I presented the paper \u201cManuscript Growth and Episodic Composition: Commentaries and Avad\u0101nas in Early South Asia\u201d in which I argue that several of the G\u0101ndh\u0101r\u012b scrolls containing scholastic texts and narrative sketches show signs of having been compiled and added to over a period of time. Proceedings for the conference panel, containing an extended version of the paper, are in the early planning stages. In a side note of my paper, I also announced a recent discovery that I made when reading the Khotan Dharmapada with my students and that may be of wider interest: The colophon of this scroll does not (as per Brough\u2019s edition) specify the monastery where it was written, but rather that the scribe was a certain Dharma\u015brava. I briefly present the evidence in my article \u201c<a href=\"\/a_bibliography.php?bib_id=Baums_2014.4\">Gandh\u0101ran Scrolls: Rediscovering an Ancient Manuscript Type<\/a>,\u201d and am working on a comprehensive discussion of my new reading of the Khotan Dharmapada colophon and its implications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, at the XVIIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies in Vienna, I presented the paper \u201cManuscript Growth and Episodic Composition: Commentaries and Avad\u0101nas in Early South Asia\u201d in which I argue that several of the G\u0101ndh\u0101r\u012b scrolls containing scholastic texts and narrative sketches show signs of having been compiled and added <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/?p=135\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gandhari.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}