Sogdian Buddhists

[Peter D Banos]

> Does anybody know a reliable (quotable) publication on the religion(s) 
of the
> Sogdians? What I need to know for sure is that they were not only 
Zoroastrians
> but also Buddhists and that they contributed in the propagation of 
Buddhism.

Checking the Columbia University Library catalogue, I find 
a bibliography by David A. Utz,
_A survey of Buddhist Sogdian studies_
(Tokyo: Reiyukai Library, 1980).

Also I suspect there is some mention of the Sogdians in Erik Zurcher's 
_Buddhist Conquest of China._
 
						-Peter D. Banos
						pdb1 at columbia.edu