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Pothi manuscript of the Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra (Lotus Sutra) in Sanskrit.
Date
400 to 599
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height 9.3 centimetres, width 41.4 centimetres
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Description
Scope and content : Folio 8 written in the script described by Lore Sander as South Turkestan Brahmi script s (Sander 1968 and 2009). Probably purchased in 1922 by Clarmont Skrine during his tenure as British Consul-General at Kashgar (1922-24) from Badruddin or Noldovack (see Sims-Williams and Waugh 2010).
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Kha.
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Site near Domoko on Southern Taklamakan
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The digitisation of this manuscript has been made possible thanks to the support of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University (http://iriab.soka.ac.jp/).
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