Bulletin of the Asia Institute

Volume 31

Table of Contents

Front Matter (pp. i–v)

Faxian and Early Successors on Their Route from Dunhuang to Peshawar: In Search of the “Suspended Crossing” (pp. 1–48)

Harry Falk (Free University of Berlin)

Two Gandharan Seated Buddha Images (pp. 49–54)

Osmund Bopearachchi, Richard Salomon

A “Blessing” Hand Gesture in Images of Deities and Kings in the Arts of Bactria and Gandhāra (2nd Century BCE–1st Century CE): The Sign of the Horns (pp. 55–85)

Henri-Paul Francfort (French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Emeritus)

Letters from Kadagstān (pp. 87–104)

Ryoichi Miyamoto (University of Tokyo)

Two Judaeo-Persian Letters from Eighth-Century Khotan (pp. 105–133)

Zhang Zhan

A New Collection of Bactrian Letters on Birchbark (pp. 135–144)

Nicholas Sims-Williams (SOAS University of London), Frantz Grenet (Collège de France)

Studies in Some Documents from the “Pahlavi Archive” (4): The Meaning and Use of ⟨spʾlk'⟩ spārag ‘Charging, Committing’ (pp. 145–165)

Dieter Weber (Free University of Berlin)

Books Received (pp. 167–167)

Abbreviations (pp. 169–170)

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