The volume contains nine papers that cover a diversity of themes relating to the presence and practice of Buddhism among the Iranian peoples of Central Asia. Six of the papers were presented at the panel Buddhism among Iranian peoples convened by M. Maggi at the XVIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (New Taipei City, Taiwan, 2011). Three other articles widen the scope of the volume and enhance its usefulness. The panel at the origin of the volume was an attempt to integrate the resources of Indo-Iranian philology with those of Buddhist philology towards a better understanding of the transmission of Indian Buddhism through Central Asia to China and thereby to Tibet and the rest of East Asia. The articles focus on linguistically Iranian Buddhist texts (Khotanese and Sogdian), as well as on non-Iranian sources (Tocharian and Chinese) that are relevant to the history of Buddhism in Khotan and among the Sogdians and the Tumshuqese.