A fact from Testament of Ba appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 January 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the earliest known fragment of the Testament of Ba, an account of the establishment of Buddhism in Tibet, was discovered in the British Library in 2009?
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What language/alphabet is each of the fragments written in?
--Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 22:47, 27 January 2011 (UTC)Reply
Sorry, I should have been explicit. The text is written in Old Tibetan (how can there be no article!) in the Tibetan script. BabelStone (talk) 23:05, 27 January 2011 (UTC)Reply