Indian studies: past & present, Volume 11

2nd century 8th century according Adzhina Tepe agricultural Airtam ancient archaeological Asian B. Y. Stavisky Bactria biography Bu-ston Buddha Buddhist Bukhara burial Central Asia century A. D. chapter China Chinese chronicle Chronological Tables colophon Csoma de Koros cult culture cycle Deb-ther-snon-po deity dPag-bsam-ljon-bzań dynasty Earth Eastern edition Ephthalites excavations fasc Ferghana Fifth Dalai Lama folios fols history of Buddhism history of Tibet ibid India inscriptions Kanishka Kara-Tepe Khorezm Khorezmian king kurgans Kushan art Kushan Empire Kushan Kingdom Kushan period Laufer madrasah Manichaean Manichaeism material mentioned monastery monks monuments Moscow Mother Goddess nirvāņa nomads Northern Bactria original Padma-bka'-than Pag Sam Jon paintings Parthian Pelliot published Pugachenkova regions religion rulers Sassanian Schlagintweit scholars sculpture Semirechye Soghd Soghdian sources spread of Buddhism Studies Sum-pa-mkhan-po Tashkent temple Termez Tibet Tibetan historical literature Tibetan language traditions translation tribes Tukhāristan W. B. Henning Western Turkistan worshipped Yüeh-chih