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The Chinese Buddhist monk Xuanzang visited a Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottaravāda monastery in the 7th century CE, at Bamiyan, Afghanistan, and this monastery site has since been rediscovered by archaeologists.

Birchbark manuscripts of texts in this monastery's collection, including Mahāyāna sūtras, have been discovered at the site, and these are now located in the Schøyen Collection.

These manuscripts are in Sanskritized Gāndhārī, written in the Kharoṣṭhī script.

Manuscripts and fragments that have survived from this monastery's collection include the following source texts: