![]() The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight-Thousand Stanzas is written in Sanskrit, one of the world’s most ancient languages, using both sides of 222 oblong sheets made from palm leaf (the first missing sheet has been replaced with a paper sheet). Sujātabhadra was a skilled craftsman working in or around Kathmandu – a city that has been one of the hubs of the Buddhist world from around 500 CE right up until the present day. One thousand years ago, a scribe called Sujātabhadra put his name to a manuscript known as the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight-Thousand Stanzas (Skt. Rush Hour podcast: Harsh Mander’s NGO stripped of foreign funding licence because he wrote articles.Watch: Satirist on the similarity between two ‘cyclones’: ‘Biparjoy and ‘Manoj Muntwister’.FCRA licence of Harsh Mander’s think tank suspended because he wrote articles for newspapers.Shanta Gokhale: The Navroze Contractor I knew.What is ailing new IITs? Infrastructure delays, staff shortages, fewer projects, says audit report.Reporter’s Diary: I crossed ‘no man’s land’ in Manipur.What Americans are debating about India as Modi visits Washington: Human rights or counter to China?. ![]()
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