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YankeyMCC

(8,401 posts) Thu May 3, 2012, 07:51 AM May 2012

India: Rare Buddhist manuscript Lotus Sutra to be released

I just recently picked up "Stories of the Lotus Sutra" coincidentally

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-17935041

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India: Rare Buddhist manuscript Lotus Sutra to be released (Original Post) YankeyMCC May 2012 OP

You've got to wonder how much has been lost... ellisonz May 2012 #1

ellisonz

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1. You've got to wonder how much has been lost...

Reply to YankeyMCC (Original post)

Sun May 6, 2012, 03:58 PM

May 2012

Officials at the National Archives say the ancient manuscripts managed to survive for centuries because they were written on the bark of the bhoj (birch) tree which does not decay and were kept in the freezing sub-zero temperatures of the Gilgit region.

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