Subject: new book : indo - european studies

ji xianling , werner winter and georges - jean pinault fragments of the tocharian a maitreyasamiti - nataka of the xinjiang museum , china 1998 . 23 x 15 , 5 cm . vii , 392 pages cloth dm 428 , - / approx . us $ 268 . 00 isbn 3-11 - 014904 - 4 trends in linguistics . studies and monographs 113 mouton de gruyter * berlin * new york in the winter of 1974 , in the yanki district of the xinjiang autonomous region in china , close to a 1000 - buddha temple , forest workers accidentally discovered 44 leaves of the manuscript remains of a tocharian a ( an extinct indo - european language ) version of the maitreyasamiti - nataka , one of the most important works of buddhist literature from central asia . this volume presents the complete text of the 44 leaves , i . e . , 88 pages which are now kept at urumqi . although they are far from complete , they are the longest manuscript remains of the text discovered till now . the original manuscripts are written in central asian slanting brahmi . the volume comprises a facsimile of the fragments , the transliterated and partly restored texts , translations , and notes , together with indices and a full glossary , thus making the work accessible for experts and students . the book will serve as a major research tool for specialists in buddhist and tocharian studies as well as for indo - europeanists and turkologists . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ mouton de gruyter walter de gruyter , inc . postfach 30 34 21 200 saw mill river road d-10728 berlin hawthorne , ny 10532 germany usa fax : + 49 ( 0 ) 30 26005-351 fax : + 1 914 747-1326 email : mouton @ degruyter . de this and further publications can also be ordered via world wide web : http : / / www . degruyter . com
