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

[Dan Lusthaus]

Congratulations, Collett. Eagerly anticipated for quite some time. Even before studying it in detail, I know this will make a significant contribution to our understanding of the formation of abhidharma. Thank you for the painstaking work.

Dan

> On Mar 29, 2025, at 1:53 PM, Collett Cox via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
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> Dear Colleagues,
> I am pleased to announce the publication of my contribution to the Gandharan Buddhist Text series:
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> Collett Cox
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> Details:  A Gāndhārī Abhidharma Text: British Library Kharoṣṭhī Fragment 28, by Collett Cox with Andrew Glass
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> 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.
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> 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. 
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> 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 <mailto:collett at uw.edu>
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