Perfect Awakening : Wisdom Publications : 9781614296539 : 1614296537 : 01 Aug 2024 : Around thirty years ago, a rare bookseller in London parcelled out birchbark leaves of a manuscript bundle representing an ancient scripture that had likely been unearthed in the Gilgit region of Pakistan. Even as the fragile folios entered collections in Japan, Norway, and the United States, they were identified by a scholar as belonging to the previously lost Sanskrit Dirghagama, the Collection of Long Discourses of the Buddha, of the Mulasarvastivadins. Although the forty-seven separate sutras in this agama have parallel transmissions extant in the Pali Digha-nikaya and the Chinese Chang ahan jing, this Sanskrit witness, copied in the eighth century, was previously known only from partial quotations and from translations in Tibetan and Chinese. The discovery was thus one of major significance in the study of Buddhist literature. This book, one of the first presentations of this manuscript in Engli