An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c34.276

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**Gilgit** (33°55'; 74°17'), where a mass of birch-bark and paper manuscripts were found in 1931 entombed in a circular chamber inside the dome of a *stūpa*. The manuscripts, written in characters of 6th-7th century, are of immense importance, some of them known till then only in their Chinese and Tibetan translations. The chamber also contained clay *stūpas* with tiny tablets bearing the Buddhist creed. There are two other adjacent *stūpas* here.