[INDOLOGY] NEW BOOK: Collett Cox, A Gāndhārī Abhidharma Text: British Library Kharoṣṭhī Fragment 28

[Collett Cox]

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the publication of my contribution to the
Gandharan Buddhist Text series:

Collett Cox with Andrew Glass. 2025. *A Gāndhārī Abhidharma Text: British
Library Kharoṣṭhī Fragment 28*. Gandharan Buddhist Texts, Volume 8.
Seattle: University of Washington Press. 594 pages, 8.5 × 11 in, 13
black-and-white illustrations, 10 color plates. ISBN: 9780295753843.

Further information can be found on the University of Washington Press
website:
https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295753843/a-gandhari-abhidharma-text/. The
book can be purchased as hardcopy or can be freely downloaded in PDF format
(https://doi.org/10.6069/9780295754185, or under “Links” on the University
of Washington Press website).

Collett Cox



Details:  *A Gāndhārī Abhidharma Text: British Library Kharoṣṭhī Fragment
28*, by Collett Cox with Andrew Glass

This eighth volume in the Gandharan Buddhist Texts (GBT) series presents an
early Indian Buddhist manuscript in the Gāndhārī language and Kharoṣṭhī
script, which records the surviving portion of a polemical scholastic text
criticizing the views of several opponents who maintain the existence of
past and future factors. The text first examines the position of one or
more unnamed opponents who defend the existence of past and future factors
in relation to the causal dynamics of action. Next, it offers a detailed
presentation of the proposition “everything exists” attributed to a
Sarvāstivādin opponent, followed by a point-by-point criticism. Since no
textual parallels have been identified in other known Buddhist texts, this
Gāndhārī text preserves important evidence for the development of early
Indian Buddhist doctrine and scholastic practice.

Given the terse nature of scholastic texts, this volume includes chapters
that introduce the text and its arguments for those interested primarily in
its contents. These chapters examine the possible context, genre, and
historical background of the text in relation to other early Buddhist
scholastic texts. They also present a summary of its contents through a
topical outline and a more general commentary containing references to
analogous discussions in other Buddhist texts.

As in the case of other volumes in the GBT series, this volume also
discusses the manuscript’s physical layout as well as the paleography,
orthography, phonology, morphology, and syntax of the recorded text. A
transcription, edition, and translation of the text are accompanied by
detailed notes on problematic terminology and alternative interpretations,
images of both the conserved and the reconstructed scrolls, and an index of
Gāndhārī words with Sanskrit and Pali equivalents.

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Collett Cox, Professor Emerita
Asian Languages and Literature
University of Washington, Seattle, WA  USA
collett at uw.edu
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