This rich collection of articles pays homage to many of the remarkably broad and interdisciplinary interests embodied in the work of Professor Georges-Jean Pinault. It contains not only historical and synchronic linguistic studies of numerous ancient languages—especially Tocharian, Sanskrit, Greek and Uyghur—but also editions of several recently discovered texts from Central Asia that contribute to the burgeoning fields of Buddhist and Silk Road studies. Lyuke wmer ra is a must-read for all scholars interested in the intersection of language, literature and religion of ancient and medieval western Eurasia.