Program

Research Programs: Collaborative Research

Period of Performance

9/1/1999 - 8/31/2002

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$197,500.00 (approved)
$197,500.00 (awarded)


Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project

FAIN: RZ-20413-99

University of Washington (Seattle, WA 98195-1016)
Richard G. Salomon (Project Director: September 1998 to January 2003)

The transcription, translation, and analysis of a group of first century A.D. Buddhist manuscripts that promise to provide new information on the formation of Buddhist canons and the spread of Buddhism from India into Central Asia and China.