In this article we propose a series of twenty-three new identifications of sources for chapter 6 of the Book of Zambasta, whose tradent claims to have quoted a verse “from each sūtra.” In this installment we offer a detailed analysis of the first five newly identified quotations, highlighting their place within Mahāyāna and Khotanese literature.
Guardian of a Dying Flame: Śāriputra (c. 1335–1426) and the End of Late Indian Buddhism. By Arthur Philip McKeown. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Department of South Asian Studies, 2018. Pp. 480. $50.
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