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This study investigates the earliest surviving Tibetan paper, from the Dunhuang cave library, using paper fibre analysis combined with codicological, palaeographical and textual information. The hypotheses tested by this method concern the regional origins and production centres of early Tibetan paper and methods for dating this material. Using overlapping typologies, we classify a sample of manuscripts into coherent groups, relating them to particular ‘book cultures’. By linking three main manuscript groups to different geographical regions, we offer new insights into an important manuscript collection, and show that the method of overlapping typologies has the potential to yield further insights.
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The International Dunhuang Project (IDP), founded in late 1993, is a collaborative endeavour to ensure the best preservation of, and increased access to, the Dunhuang documents and other artefacts from the eastern Silk Road. This paper, after introducing the history of the documents, will discuss some of the lessons learned by IDP in the course of development of its Interactive Web Database (http://idp.bl.uk).
A brief overview of Dunhuang studies in recent years.
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African …
The Tibetan Dunhuang manuscripts in China2002 •
At the beginning of the twentieth century a huge cache of ancient manuscripts was discovered in a Buddhist cave complex near the desert town of Dunhuang in China. Famously, the monk who guarded the caves, Wang Yuanlu, was persuaded by the archaeological explorers Aurel Stein and Paul Pelliot to sell them a large portion of the manuscripts so that they could be acquired by the British and French governments. The manuscripts, which were in a variety of languages, most commonly Chinese and Tibetan, are now held at the Bibliothe`que nationale and the British Library, and it is the Tibetan group that form the focus of this article.
This study contributes to the history of paper in Central Asia during the first millennium C.E. and aims to create a typology of paper based on a systematic study of Chinese manuscript collections found along the Silk Roads. The further aspect of this study aims to improve our knowledge of archaeometric research considered with the revision and test of scientific methodology which can then be used for historical and philological scholarship. By using fibre analysis and the technological study of paper combined with codicological and textual information, research has aimed to explore the possibilities for dating these materials, and fingerprinting their places of origin. The fact that many of Chinese manuscripts being studied (which are the oldest preserved and dated artefacts from Central Asia) are fixed in time by dates mentioned in colophons makes them valuable and reliable references for building a typology of paper and for comparative study of any yet to be discovered papers from that region. A sample of studied manuscripts comprises a total of 182 Chinese manuscripts selected from the Dunhuang Collection in the British Library in London, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris (BnF), the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts in St. Petersburg, and the Turfan collection in the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW) and the Berlin State Library (StaBi).
Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology
The Third Ōtani Expedition at Dunhuang: Acquisition of the Japanese Collection of Dunhuang Manuscripts2008 •
The Dunhuang manuscripts are scattered around the world and the Japanese collections of the manuscripts are among the largest. Especially important are the remnants of the Otani collection of Central Asian manuscripts acquired in 1911-1912 by Tachibana Zuicho and Yoshikawa Koichiro.
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One-Volume Libraries: Composite and Multiple-Text Manuscripts
Manuscripts and Practices: Investigating the Tibetan Chan Compendium2016 •
Journal of the International Association of Tibetan …
Beyond Anonymity: Paleographic Analyses of the Dunhuang Manuscripts2007 •
Tibetan Manuscript and Xylograph Traditions
The Uses of Implements are Different: Reflections on the Functions of Tibetan Manuscripts2016 •
Helen Wang (ed.): Sir Aurel Stein. Proceedings of the British Museum Study Day 2002
Letters, Reports and Bestsellers: Stein's Accounts of his First and Second Expeditions2004 •
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Metropolitan Museum Journal
(2020) Buddhism and Silk: Reassessing a Painted Banner from Medieval Central Asia in The Met, co-authored with Xin Wen and Susan Whitfield2020 •
Journal of the American Oriental Society 128.3: 477-488
Fragments of the Testament of Ba from Dunhuang2008 •
Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages IV, edited by Nathan Hill. Leiden: Brill. 411-446.
The Origin of the Headless Style (dbu med) in Tibet2012 •
Imagining Chinese Medicine
Travelling Light: Sino-Tibetan Moxa-Cautery from Dunhuang2018 •
Journal of the American Oriental Society
"By the Power of the Perfection of Wisdom": The "Sūtra-Rotation" Liturgy of the Mahāprajñāpāramitā at Dunhuang2019 •
Tibetan Buddhist Literature and Praxis (Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS, 2003, Volume 4)
The Tibetan Avalokitesvara Cult in the Tenth Century: Evidence from the Dunhuang ManuscriptsCahiers d'Extrême-Asie
Compte-rendu de: Marc Kalinowski, Divination et société dans la Chine médiévale : Étude des manuscrits de Dunhuang2004 •
National Palace Museum Research Quarterly 故宮學術季刊
"Illustrating the Efficacy of the Diamond Sutra in Vernacular Buddhism" (通俗佛教版畫所見的金剛經靈驗力). National Palace Museum Research Quarterly 《故宮學術季刊 》35.4 (2018): 35-120.2018 •
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The Emergence of Multiple-Text Manuscripts, ed. by Bausi, Alessandro / Friedrich, Michael / Maniaci, Marilena
Multiple-Text Manuscripts in Medieval China2019 •
Asiatische Studien
Manuscript copies of stone inscriptions in the Dunhuang corpus: Issues of dating and provenance2009 •
Esengü Bitig: Doğumunun 60. Yılında Zühal Ölmez Armağanı
Çin'de Muhafaza Edilen Eski Uygurca Abhidharma Metinleri Üzerine2021 •
Chán Buddhism in Dūnhuáng and Beyond: A Study of Manuscripts, Texts, and Contexts in Memory of John R. McRae
Chán Buddhism in Dūnhuáng and Beyond: A Study of Manuscripts, Texts, and Contexts in Memory of John R. McRae - Table of Contents and Preface (pre-print version)2021 •
Central Asian Journal 57, pp. 71-83
A Chinese Tract in Tangut Translation (Or.12380/2579)2014 •
Journal of Cultural Heritage (2010), 11, 398-403.
AMS radiocarbon dating and scientific examination of high historical value manuscripts: Application to two Chinese manuscripts from DunhuangManuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field, Ed. by Quenzer, Jörg / Bondarev, Dmitry / Sobisch, Jan-Ulrich
Towards a Tibetan Palaeography: Developing a Typology of Writing Styles in Early Tibet2014 •
Liu Yi and Irina Popova, eds., Dunhuang studies: Prospects and problems for the coming second century of research, St. Petersburg: Slavia
A forgotten Chinese translation of the preliminary report of Aurel Stein's first expedition2012 •