"More than twenty years have passed since twenty-eight fragile birch bark scrolls, now known to be the oldest surviving Buddhist manuscripts in the world, came to light."
Read the article in Lion's Roar by Richard Salomon
"The discovery of previously unknown texts also offers a hint of how much of the Buddhist literature that once existed has not come down to us."
If you've got $50-$100 for the 6 books on Amazon in the USA, you must have made good merit.
It looks like an academic area when you look at all the primitive stuff that includes grafiti.
"On one hand, one can safely ignore the new material without missing anything essential to the theory or practice of Buddhism. On the other hand, Buddhists may wish to dip a toe—or even plunge headfirst—into these previously uncharted waters."
Links
Gandharan Buddhist Texts (Wikipedia)
Gandhara art (Britannica)
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