Fragments of texts from the disciplinary code of the Buddhist order in the "Private Collection in Virginia"

弗吉尼亚州（美国）的一个私人收藏包含了《律流-vibhanga》和《律流- uttargrantha》的奇异手稿碎片。这两个文本都属于佛教僧侣的戒律规范（Mula）sarvastivadins的规范版本。这些作品的印度原作被认为已经丢失。由于收藏的主人非常重视他的匿名性，手稿似乎仍然无法获得。当一个有用的情况出乎意料地提供访问，碎片可以数字化，以非常高的分辨率。该项目打算通过比较汉文和藏文译本以及其他以梵文保存的平行文本，首次提供一个版本并对碎片进行语言学分析。它将调查碎片的内容和语言，以及（Mula）sarvastivada学派内的律宗文本的发展和变化的问题。新的梵文片段将丰富我们对这个学派经典文本的词汇、措辞和句法的知识。它们和《迪尔加伽玛》的大部分手稿一起被发现，因此有理由认为所有这些手稿都来自同一个发现地点，甚至可能属于同一主人。因此，《戒律》片段的编辑和研究将与那些处理德伽伽玛手稿的研究人员密切合作，尤其是因为德伽伽玛包括与《戒律》文本平行的段落。

A private collection in Virginia (USA) contains singular manuscript fragments from the Vinaya-vibhanga and the Vinaya-uttaragrantha. Both texts belong to the disciplinary code of the Buddhist monks in the canonical version of the (Mula)sarvastivadins. The Indian originals of these works were considered lost. Since the owner of the collection attaches highest importance to his anonymity, the manuscripts seemed to remain inaccessible. When a helpful circumstance unexpectedly provided access, the fragments could be digitalized in very high resolution. The project intends to provide for the first time an edition and a philological analysis of the fragments by comparing the Chinese and Tibetan translations and other parallel texts which are preserved in Sanskrit. It will investigate the content and the language of the fragments, but also questions of the development and variation of the Vinaya texts within the (Mula)sarvastivada school. The new Sanskrit fragments will enrich our knowledge of vocabulary, diction and syntax of the canonical texts of this school. They were acquired together with a large part of the manuscript of the Dirghagama, and thus there is reason to assume that all these manuscripts come from the same find spot and possibly even belonged to the same owners. Therefore the edition and study of the Vinaya fragments will be carried out in close collaboration with those researchers who deal with the Dirghagama manuscript, not least because the Dirghagama includes passages parallel to those of the Vinaya texts.