The Life of a Buddhist Manuscript: The Mūlasarvastivadin Dīrghāgama Manuscript, its Influence on Buddhist Textual Production, and the Development of Canonical Buddhist Material in the First Millennium of the Common Era Ghent University
The scope of this project revolves around a close study of the Dīrghāgama manuscript (The Collection of Long Discourses), an important collection of Buddhist sūtras detailing the discourses of the historical figure known as the Buddha Gautama. This manuscript is the only surviving witness of this textual collection as it was transmitted by the Mūlasarvāstivāda Buddhist tradition, one of the three major Buddhist traditions from which the ...