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来自Vinaya-vibhanga和Vinaya-uttaragrantha的奇异手稿碎片。这两部经典都属于佛教僧侣的戒律，属于经典版本的（穆拉）有说一切有部。这些作品的印度原件被认为已经丢失。由于收藏品的所有者非常重视他的匿名性，这些手稿似乎仍然无法访问。当一个有帮助的环境意外地提供访问时，碎片可以以非常高的分辨率数字化。该项目旨在通过比较中文和藏文译本以及以梵文保存的其他平行文本，首次提供对这些碎片的版本和语言学分析。它将调查的内容和语言的片段，但也有问题的发展和变化的律宗文本内（穆拉）有部说学派。新的梵语片段将丰富我们的词汇，文辞和语法的规范文本的这一学校的知识。他们一起获得了大部分的手稿的Dirghagama，因此有理由假设，所有这些手稿来自同一发现点，甚至可能属于同一业主。因此，律宗残卷的编辑和研究将与那些处理《长伽梵》手稿的研究人员密切合作进行，尤其是因为《长伽梵》包括与律宗文本平行的段落。

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.