Dear Rich, thank you very much for this tribute to Gérard Fussman, whose erudition we all continue to prosper from in its published form.
> It was also, I believe, Fussman who originated the expression > "Greater Gandhara" [...] I have used this term frequently in my > own publications and have sometimes been credited, incorrectly, > with having invented it. I wonder periodically about the first coinage of this term. Curiously, Fussman himself credited you with its invention, in a somewhat cryptic statement on p. 130 of his review of our reliquary book: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43486696 C’était le cœur de ce que R. Salomon propose d’appeler le « Greater Gandhāra », expression que je n’utilise pas à cause des risques potentiels de confusions, que D. Jongeward n’utilise pas non plus, mais qui correspond à une réalité dont il ne tient pas compte. And so, for now at least, the origin of the expression remains lost in the mists of time. All best, Stefan -- Stefan Baums, Ph.D. Institut für Indologie und Tibetologie Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universität München _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list [email protected] https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology
