COLLECTED ARTICLES on Ancient Eastern Afghanistan and Northern Pakistan ― Rinsen Book Co.

Shoshin KUWAYAMA

COLLECTED ARTICLES
on Ancient Eastern Afghanistan and Northern Pakistan

700 pages | 257 x 182 cm. | hardcover
14,000 JPY + tax | ISBN 9784653045946
Publication date: 2024/10/11 [forthcoming]

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Two decades have passed since Dr. Shoshin Kuwayama, Emeritus Professor of the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, published a collection of his papers, Across the Hindukush of the First Millennium (Kyoto 2002). In the meantime, several important new studies have appeared related to the fields discussed there. Therefore, we are grateful that Prof. Kuwayama decided to issue here the revised and enlarged version, entitled Collected Articles: Ancient Eastern Afghanistan and Northern Pakistan.

Prof. Kuwayama is, needless to say, a renowned scholar specialised in Central and South Asian archaeology, particularly of the Indo-Iranian borderland, and the regions across the Hindukush ranges. Starting his field activities in 1963 as a member of the Kyoto University Archaeological Mission, he later led the excavations of Tape Iskandar, a Brahmanical site near Kabul in the 1970s. Further continuing the analysis of the archaeological discoveries and integrating it with the research in Chinese literary sources, he has clearly identified a historic watershed around the mid-sixth century CE in the pre-Islamic history of the region. His investigation and elucidation have made his work invaluable and irreplaceable, and he has earned international fame, sometimes called a giant in that research field.

When he published the first version on his retirement from the university, his research had culminated in roughly one hundred articles. As the volume was, unfortunately, printed in a limited number, there came so many inquiries about obtaining the volume from various scholars and institutions overseas that we decided to let the volume go public in the Kyoto University Research Information Repository (KURENAI).

The present volume is expediently organized in three parts, the first two being a revised version of Across the Hindukush of the First Millennium and the last chapter XXVIII, being a reprinted monograph of ‘Kanishka Stupa,’ circulated in 1997.

Afghanistan is still in a difficult condition. The field surveys that provide the backbone of this volume are all the more valuable because some of the archaeological sites and objects have been permanently lost, to say nothing of the Śiva-Pārvatī statue from Tape Iskandar once stored at the National Museum of Afghanistan. This volume, by bridging the previous field surveys to the latest scholarship, undoubtedly inspires us to further investigate the history, not only ancient but modern also, of this significant frontier in Asia.

Prof. Minoru INABA
Early Islamic History, Kyoto University

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface
Illustrations

Part One: Papers Issued before 2001

I. Buddhist Establishments in Taxila and Gandhāra: A Chronological Review
II. Beginning of the Square Podium of Stupa in Taxila
III. The Buddha’s Bowl in Gandhāra
IV. Stupas with the Wheel-shaped Structure Inside
V. Aspects of the Stupa Court at Hadda: Looking at Tapa Shotor from Lalma
VI. The Hephthalites in Tokhāra and Gandhāra
VII. Pilgrimage Route Change: The Fall of Gandhāra and the Rise of Bāmiyān
VIII. Bāmiyān and its Buddhist Activities
IX. Two Superimposed Shrines at Khair Khāna, Kabul
X. Identity of the ‘Nezak’ Coins
XI. A New Date for Begram III
XII. Between Begrām II and III: A Blank Period in the History of Kāpiśī
XIII. The Horizon of Begrām III and Beyond: A Chronological Interpretation of the Evidence for Monuments in the Kāpiśī-Kābul-Ghaznī Region
XIV. The Turki Śāhīs and Relevant Brahmanical Sculptures in East Afghanistan
XV. The Inscription of Gaṇeśa from Gardez and a Chronology of the Turki Shāhis
XVI. Dating Yaśovarman of Kanauj on the Evidence of Huichao

Part Two: Papers Issued after 2002

XVII. The Kushans, viz. the Dà Yuèzhī 大

氏： A Century-long Fallacy
XVIII. The Chitral Yaβγu 雙靡

侯 and Southward Trade Route in the First Century BC
XIX. Kañjūr Ashlar and Diaper Masonry: Two Building Phases in Taxila of the First Century AD
XX. The Stupa in Gandhara
XXI. Tangible Ties with Śākyamuni in Gandhāra
XXII. Swāt, Udyāna, and Gandhāra: Some Issues Related to Chinese Accounts
XXIII. Kāpiśī and Gandhāra according to Chinese Buddhist Sources
XXIV. Chinese Records on Bamiyan: Translation and Commentary
XXV. Kāpiśī and Kābul in the Sixth-Eighth Centuries
XXVI. The Mofa 末法, or the End-period of the Dharma: An Echo of the Hephthalite Destruction of Gandhāran Buddhism?
XXVII. How Xuanzang Learned about Nālandā

Part Three

XXVIII. The Main Stūpa of Shāh-jī-kī Ḍherī: A Chronological Outlook

List of the Academic Print Media having first accepted and issued the anticles collected in this book

Geographical Index