Merv (Bairam-Ali) Vinaya Manuscript
Merv (Bairam-Ali) Vinaya Manuscript
Dr. Shayne Clarke is currently carrying out research on the Merv (Bairam-Ali) Vinaya Manuscript.
What is the research about?
In 1965, in the Merv oasis near the city of Bairam-Ali, Turkmenistan, a Sanskrit manuscript consisting of 150 folios in three discrete sections was found.
What did the researcher do?
Shayne Clarke is re-editing and translating the thirteen folios that constitute the Vinaya section of the Merv manuscript with reference to Chinese parallels in the Sarvāstivādin monastic law code, the Shisonglü 十誦律.
Researcher
Shayne Clarke
PhD
Associate Professor, Religious Studies