In the last several years, fantastic manuscript finds have surfaced opening new windows into the scholarly study of the development of Buddhist literature. The Gandhāra Corpora represents a multifaceted, holistic approach to the study of an important and voluminous genre of manuscript witnesses from an early era of Buddhist textual transmission composed mainly in Sanskrit in the Gilgit/Bamiyan type scripts from the historic region of Greater Gandhara covering modern day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of Northern India. Working with collections across the globe including the Mr. Tha Rattanasuk Collection in Thailand, this project centers on the preservation and study of recently discovered caches of highly significantต early Buddhist manuscripts and their place in the body of works from Greater Gandhara. The philological, paleographical, codicological, and critical research conducted in this project will examine textual and material production, transmission, and relationship networks in the Buddhist manuscript cultures of Greater Gandhara and beyond in the first millennium of the Common Era. The digitization of this material in the course of the project will ensure the long-term preservation of these important instances of Buddhist cultural heritage, making them available to world for future study for generations to come.