Investigating the Bendall Manuscripts

在这个研究项目中，首席调查员Kazunobu Matsuda致力于鉴定被称为“Bendall手稿”的佛教梵文手稿碎片，这些手稿保存在加德满都的尼泊尔国家档案馆。大约一个世纪前，剑桥大学的塞西尔·本德尔教授首次对这些碎片进行了研究。Bendall等学者对这些片段进行了一些研究。然而，许多对开本仍未确定。这些碎片的原件被学者们忽视了几十年，直到现在才被人注意到，一直沉睡在加德满都。在Kazunobu Matsuda迄今为止检查的手稿碎片中，有五个佛教梵文测试的新碎片，Yogacarabhumi, Madhyama-agama， Mulasarvastivadavinaya的Paryayasamgrahani和Viniscayasamgrahani部分，以及Vasubandhu对Abhidharmakosa的未知评论，这些都在项目报告中提出。

In this research project head investigator Kazunobu Matsuda has worked to identify the Buddhist Sanskrit manuscript fragments called the "Bendall Manuscripts" preserved in the National Archives of Nepal, Kathmandu. These fragments were first examined by Professor Cecil Bendall in Cambridge about a century ago. A few studies on these fragments by Bendall and other scholars have appeared. A number of folios, however, have remained unidentified. Overlooked by scholars for decades, the original of these fragments have slumbered unnoticed in Kathmandu until now. Among the manuscript fragments so far examined by Kazunobu Matsuda, there are five new fragments of the Buddhist Sanskrit tests, Paryayasamgrahani and Viniscayasamgrahani sections of the Yogacarabhumi, the Madhyama-agama, the Mulasarvastivadavinaya, and an unknown commentary to the Abhidharmakosa by Vasubandhu which are presented in the report of the project.