Richard Salomon (South Asian Studies)

Richard G. Salomon is the William P. and Ruth Gerberding University Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington.

Salomon is a Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit-languages scholar, known for his studies on Indian epigraphy. He is also a specialist in early Indian Buddhism studies.

Education

Salomon received his Ph.D. in Sanskrit (with Distinction) from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975 and a B.A. in Oriental Studies (minor in Religion) from Columbia University in 1970.

Honors and awards

In 2016, the Puget Sound Association of Phi Beta Kappa honored him with its Humanities Achievement Award "in recognition of his study of the Gandharan manuscripts, which illuminate the oldest period of Buddhist culture for which documents exist, and the dissemination of its results."

Publications

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Books

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Articles and chapters

*"The Senior Manuscripts: Another Collection of Gandhāran Buddhist Scrolls." ''Journal of the American Oriental Society'' 123,1 (2003) 73–92.
*(with Mark Allon) "Kharoṣṭhī fragments of a Gāndhārī version of the Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra." In: Braarvig 2000*, p. 243–273.
*"A Fragment of a Collection of Buddhist Legends, with a Reference to King Huviṣka as a Follower of the Mahāyāna." In: Braarvig 2002*, p. 255–267.
*"A Jar with a Kharoṣṭhī Inscription." In: Braarvig 2002*, p. 351–355.
*(with Mark Allon et al.) "Radiocarbon Dating of Kharoṣṭhī Fragments from the Schoyen and Senior Manuscript Collections." In: Braarvig 2006*, p. 279–291.
*(with Gregory Schopen) "On an Alleged Reference to Amitābha in a Kharoṣṭhī Inscription on a Gandhārian Relief." ''Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies'' 25,1-2 (2002) 3–31.
*"Why did the Gandhāran Buddhists bury their manuscripts?" In: ''Buddhist Manuscript Cultures (Knowledge, ritual, and art)'', ed. S. C. Berkwitz, J. Schober, C. Brown, 2009, Routledge, p. 19–34.
*"Aśvaghoṣa's Saundarananda IV-VI: A Study in the Poetic Structure of Buddhist Kāvya." ''Indo-Iranian Journal'' 52,2-3 (2009) 179–196.
*(with Mark Allon) "New Evidence for Mahayana in Early Gandhāra." ''The Eastern Buddhist'' 41,1 (2010) 1–22.
*(with Mark Allon) "Kharoṣṭhī fragments of a Gāndhārī version of the Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra." In: Braarvig 2000*, p. 243–273.
*"An Unwieldy Canon: Observations on Some Distinctive Features of Canon Formation in Buddhism." In: Deeg/ Freiberger/ Kleine 2011*, p. 161–207.
*"Aṣṭabhujasvāmin: A Reinterpretation of the Ābhīra Inscription from Nagarjunakonda." ''Indo-Iranian Journal'' 56,3-4 (2013) 397–417.
*"Gāndhārī Manuscripts in the British Library, Schoyen and Other Collections." In: Harrison/ Hartmann 2014*, p. 1–17.
*(with Joseph Marino) "Observations on the Deorkothar Inscriptions and their Significance for the Evaluation of Buddhist Historical Traditions." ''Annual Report of The International Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University'' 17 (2013 014 27–39.
*"New Manuscript Sources for the Study of Gandhāran Buddhism." In: ''Gandharan Buddhism: Archaeology, Art, and Texts'' (2006) 135–147.
*"Aśvaghoṣa in Central Asia: Some Comments on the Recensional History of His Works in Light of Recent Manuscript Discoveries." In: ''Buddhism across boundaries—Chinese Buddhism and the Western Regions'' (1999) 219–263.

Reviews

*Book Review of Bechert 1995 (Sanskrithandschriften aus den Turfanfunden, part 7). ''Journal of the American Oriental Society'' 118 (1998) 121–124.
*Review of Oguibénine 1996 (Initiation pratique à l'étude du sanskrit bouddhique). ''Journal of the American Oriental Society'' 120 (2000) 463–464.
*Review of Wille 2000 (Sanskrithandschriften aus den Turfanfunden, vol. 8: Die Katalognummern 1800-1999). ''Journal of the American Oriental Society'' 123,1 (2003) 224–226.
*Review of Willis 2000 (Buddhist Reliquaries from Ancient India). ''Journal of the American Oriental Society'' 124,1 (2004) 199–201.
*Book Review of John S. Strong 2004 (Relics of the Buddha). ''Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies'' 28,2 (2005) 469–472.
*Book Review of Karashima - Wille 2006 (Buddhist Manuscripts from Central Asia: The British Library Sanskrit Fragments. Vol. 1). ''Journal of the American Oriental Society'' 128,4 (2008) 809.
*Book Review of Dimitrov 2010 (The Bhaikṣukī Manuscript of the Candrālaṃkāra: Study, Script Tables, and Facsimile Edition arvard Oriental Series 72. ''Indo-Iranian Journal'' 55,1 (2012) 39–49.
*(with Stefan Baums and Cristina A. Scherrer-Schaub) "Buddhist Inscriptions from Termez (Uzbekistan): A New Comprehensive Edition and Study" (= Book Review of Fussman et al. 2011 atalogue des inscriptions sur poteries. ''Indo-Iranian Journal'' 55,2 (2012) 139–170.
*Book Review of Wille 2008 (Sanskrithandschriften aus den Turfanfunden, pt. 10: Die Katalognummern 3200-4362). ''Journal of the American Oriental Society'' 132,3 (2012) 506–508.
*Book Review of Coville 2009 (A Metaphorical Study of Saundarananda). ''Indo-Iranian Journal'' 56,1 (2013) 93–98.

See also

* Gandharan Buddhist texts, one of his main areas of interest

References

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