Dear colleagues:

We are happy to announce that a PDF file of the first volume of The St. Petersburg Sanskrit Fragments (StPSF), ed. by Seishi Karashima and Margarita I. Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya, Tokyo 2015: The Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (= IOM RAS) and The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology (= IRIAB), Soka University, 545 pages + 123 plates, ISBN978-4-904234-11-2, is now available on the following websites:

http://orientalstudies.ru/eng/index.php?option=com_publications&Itemid=75&pub=1501

http://iriab.soka.ac.jp/orc/Publications/StPSF/index_StPSF.html

Table of contents

Foreword by Irina F. Popova vii

Preface by Margarita I. Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya ix

The Śārdūlakarṇāvadāna from Central Asia by Tensho Miyazaki, Jundo Nagashima, Tatsushi Tamai and Zhou Liqun 1

The Ajitasenavyākaraṇa Manuscripts from Central Asia and Gilgit by Jiro Hirabayashi, William B. Rasmussen and Safarali Shomakhmadov  85

The Avadāna Anthology from Merv, Turkmenistan by Seishi Karashima and Margarita I. Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya 145

The Mahāparinirvāṇa-mahāsūtra Fragments in the Petrovsky Collection (1) by Hiromi Habata 525

Postscript by Seishi Karashima 543

Plates 1~123

Seishi Karashima

IRIAB, Soka University, Tokyo