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Manuscript Philology of Dunhuang

Author : Yongquan Zhang
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819983312
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Manuscript Philology of Dunhuang written by Yongquan Zhang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores first-hand Dunhuang manuscripts from a period of over 700 years, from 220 to 960, and as such makes a major contribution to passing on and promoting ancient Chinese culture. Perfectly combining four ingredients: an accessible writing style; a comprehensive set of typical examples and pictures; sound field research and culturally stimulating approaches; and authentically archaeological and philological results, this thorough and engaging book appeals to all the readers undertaking Dunhuang studies.

Manuscript Philology of Dunhuang

Author : Yongquan Zhang
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789819983308
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Manuscript Philology of Dunhuang written by Yongquan Zhang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores first-hand Dunhuang manuscripts from a period of over 700 years, from 220 to 960, and as such makes a major contribution to passing on and promoting ancient Chinese culture. Perfectly combining four ingredients: an accessible writing style; a comprehensive set of typical examples and pictures; sound field research and culturally stimulating approaches; and authentically archaeological and philological results, this thorough and engaging book appeals to all the readers undertaking Dunhuang studies.

Dunhuang Manuscript Culture

Author : Imre Galambos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110727102
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Dunhuang Manuscript Culture written by Imre Galambos and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dunhuang Manuscript Culture” explores the world of Chinese manuscripts from ninth-tenth century Dunhuang, an oasis city along the network of pre-modern routes known today collectively as the Silk Roads. The manuscripts have been discovered in 1900 in a sealed-off side-chamber of a Buddhist cave temple, where they had lain undisturbed for for almost nine hundred years. The discovery comprised tens of thousands of texts, written in over twenty different languages and scripts, including Chinese, Tibetan, Old Uighur, Khotanese, Sogdian and Sanskrit. This study centres around four groups of manuscripts from the mid-ninth to the late tenth centuries, a period when the region was an independent kingdom ruled by local families. The central argument is that the manuscripts attest to the unique cultural diversity of the region during this period, exhibiting—alongside obvious Chinese elements—the heavy influence of Central Asian cultures. As a result, it was much less ‘Chinese’ than commonly portrayed in modern scholarship. The book makes a contribution to the study of cultural and linguistic interaction along the Silk Roads.

Eighteen Lectures on Dunhuang

Author : Xinjiang Rong
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004252339
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Eighteen Lectures on Dunhuang written by Xinjiang Rong and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Eighteen Lectures on Dunhuang, Rong Xinjiang provides an accessible overview of Dunhuang studies, an academic field that emerged following the discovery of a medieval monastic library at the Mogao caves near Dunhuang. The manuscripts were hidden in a cave at the beginning of the 11th century and remained unnoticed until 1900, when a Daoist monk accidentally found them and subsequently sold most of them to foreign explorers and scholars. The availability of this unprecedented amount of first-hand material from China’s middle period provided a stimulus for a number of scholarly fields both in China and the West. Rong Xinjiang’s book provides, for the first time in English, a convenient summary of the history of Dunhuang studies and its contribution to scholarship.

Tangut Language and Manuscripts: An Introduction

Author : Jinbo Shi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004414541
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Tangut Language and Manuscripts: An Introduction written by Jinbo Shi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive introduction to the Tangut language and culture. Five of the fisteen chapters survey the history of Western Xia and the evolution of Tangut Studies, including new advancements in the field, such as research on the recently decoded Tangut cursive writings found in Khara-Khoto documents. The other ten chapters provide an introduction to the Tangut language: its origins, script, characters, grammars, translations, textual and contextual readings. In this synthesis of historical narratives and linguistic analysis, the renowned Tangutologist Shi Jinbo offers a guided access to the mysterious civilisation of the ‘Great State White and High’ to both a specialized and a general audience.

Manuscripts and Travellers

Author : Sam van Schaik
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110225654
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Manuscripts and Travellers written by Sam van Schaik and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is based on a manuscript which was carried by a Chinese monk through the monasteries of the Hexi corridor, as part of his pilgrimage from Wutaishan to India. The manuscript has been created as a composite object from three separate documents, with Chinese and Tibetan texts on them. Included is a series of Tibetan letters of introduction addressed to the heads of monasteries along the route, functioning as a passport when passing through the region. The manuscript dates to the late 960s, coinciding with the large pilgrimage movement during the reign of Emperor Taizu of the Northern Song recorded in transmitted sources. Therefore, it is very likely that this is a unique contemporary testimony of the movement, of which our pilgrim was also part. Complementing extant historical sources, the manuscript provides evidence for the high degree of ethnic, cultural and linguistic diversity in Western China during this period.

Introduction to Altaic Philology

Author : Igor de Rachewiltz
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004188894
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Altaic Philology written by Igor de Rachewiltz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-05-31 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many excellent books dealing with Old Turkic, Preclassical and Classical Mongolian and Literary Manchu individually, but none providing in a single volume a comprehensive survey of all the three major Altaic languages. The present volume attempts to fill this gap; at the same time it reviews also the much debated Altaic Hypothesis. The book is intended for use by students at university level as well as by general readers with a basic knowledge of linguistics. The 39 language texts analysed in the volume are discussed within their historical and cultural context, thus vastly enlarging the scope of the purely linguistic investigation.

Chinese Thought

Author : Roel Sterckx
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141984848
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Thought written by Roel Sterckx and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the PEN Hessel-Tiltman Prize 'A terrific book, rich and endlessly thought provoking. . . If you are looking for one book to understand the core ideas of Chinese civilisation, read this' - Michael Wood An engrossing history of ancient Chinese philosophy and culture from an eminent Cambridge expert We are often told that the twenty-first century is bound to become China's century. Never before has Chinese culture been so physically, digitally, economically or aesthetically present in everyday Western life. But how much do we really know about its origins and key beliefs? How did the ancient Chinese think about the world? In this enlightening book, Roel Sterckx, one of the foremost experts in Chinese thought, takes us through centuries of Chinese history, from Confucius to Daoism to the Legalists. The great questions that have occupied China's brightest minds were not about who and what we are, but rather how we should live our lives, how we should organise society and how we can secure the well-being of those who live with us and for whom we carry responsibility. With evocative examples from philosophy, literature and everyday life, Sterckx shows us how the ancient Chinese have shaped the thinking of a civilization that is now influencing our own.

Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field

Author : Jörg Quenzer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110225638
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field written by Jörg Quenzer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Script and writing were among the most important inventions in human history, and until the invention of printing, the handwritten book was the primary medium of literary and cultural transmission. Although the study of manuscripts is already quite advanced for many regions of the world, no unified discipline of ‘manuscript studies’ has yet evolved which is capable of treating handwritten books from East Asia, India and the Islamic world equally alongside the European manuscript tradition. This book, which aims to begin the interdisciplinary dialogue needed to arrive at a truly systematic and comparative approach to manuscript cultures worldwide, brings together papers by leading researchers concerned with material, philological and cultural aspects of different manuscript traditions.

Bon and Naxi Manuscripts

Author : Agnieszka Helman-Ważny
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110776472
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Bon and Naxi Manuscripts written by Agnieszka Helman-Ważny and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume offers a dozen studies of manuscripts of the Tibetan Bon and Naxi Dongba traditions across time and space. While some of the contributions focus on particular features of manuscripts from either tradition, others explicitly bridge the two by considering common codicological and material aspects of selected examples or common themes in the content of the texts. This is the first primarily object-based study to deal with the cultural history and technology of books from the two traditions. It discusses collections of Bon and Naxi manuscripts, the concepts and history of both traditions, the science and technology of book studies as it relates to these collections, the relationship between text and image, writing materials, and the historical and archaeological context of the manuscripts' places of origin. The authors are specialists in different fields including philology, anthropology, art history, codicology and archaeometry. The contributions shed light on trade routes, materials and technologies as well as on reading practices and ritual usage of Bon and Naxi manuscripts.

Celestial Secrets

Author : Sabine Wilms
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781732157170
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Celestial Secrets written by Sabine Wilms and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first English translation of a rare medieval Chinese manuscript with the full title F?xíngjué zàngf? yòngyào f?yào ("Secret Tips for Helpful Action: The Key to Using Medicinals on the Zàngf? Organs").In addition to an elegant yet literal annotated translation of the complete text by Dr. Sabine Wilms, this book includes a lengthy scholarly introduction, analyzing the history of the text and its relationship to an ancient mythological T?ngyèj?ng ("Classic of Decoctions"), with which it is sometimes wrongly identified. The eminent j?ngf?ng practitioner Sharon Weizenbaum has kindly contributed a foreword and clinical commentary.

Bringing Buddhism to Tibet

Author : Lewis Doney
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110715309
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Bringing Buddhism to Tibet written by Lewis Doney and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing Buddhism to Tibet is a landmark study of the Dba’ bzhed, a text recounting the introduction of Buddhism to Tibet. The narrative of Buddhism’s arrival in Tibet is known from a number of versions, but the Dba’ bzhed—preserved in a single manuscript—is the oldest complete copy. Although the Dba’ bzhed stands at the head of a long tradition of history writing in the Tibetan language, and has been known for more than two decades, this book provides a full transcription of the Tibetan for the first time, together with a new translation. The book also introduces Tibetan history and the Dba’ bzhed with several introductory chapters on various aspects of the text by experienced scholars in the field of Tibetan philology. These detailed studies provide analysis of the text’s narrative context, its position within traditional and current historiography, and the organisation and structure of the text itself and its antecedents. Bringing Buddhism to Tibet is essential reading for anyone interested in Tibetan history and kingship, the nature of Tibetan historical narrative or the traditions of text transmission and codicology. The book will also be of general interest to students of Buddhism and the spread of Buddhism across Asia.

Translating Chinese Tradition and Teaching Tangut Culture

Author : Imre Galambos
Publisher : ISSN
ISBN 13 : 9783110444063
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Translating Chinese Tradition and Teaching Tangut Culture written by Imre Galambos and published by ISSN. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Tangut translations of secular Chinese texts excavated from the ruins of Khara-khoto. After providing an overview of Tangut history and an introduction to the emergence of the field of Tangut studies, it presents four case studies

Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies

Author : Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies, COMSt
Publisher : Tredition Gmbh
ISBN 13 : 9783732317707
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies written by Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies, COMSt and published by Tredition Gmbh. This book was released on 2015-01-21 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is the main achievement of the Research Networking Programme 'Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies', funded by the European Science Foundation in the years 2009-2014. It is the first attempt to introduce a wide audience to the entirety of the manuscript cultures of the Mediterranean East. The chapters reflect the state of the art in such fields as codicology, palaeography, textual criticism and text editing, cataloguing, and manuscript conservation as applied to a wide array of language traditions including Arabic, Armenian, Avestan, Caucasian Albanian, Christian Palestinian Aramaic, Coptic, Ethiopic, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Persian, Slavonic, Syriac, and Turkish. Seventy-seven scholars from twenty-one countries joined their efforts to produce the handbook. The resulting reference work can be recommended both to scholars and students of classical and oriental studies and to all those involved in manuscript research, digital humanities, and preservation of cultural heritage. The volume includes maps, illustrations, indexes, and an extensive bibliography.

Medieval Multilingual Manuscripts

Author : Michael Clarke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110776499
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Multilingual Manuscripts written by Michael Clarke and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-04-04 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manuscripts provide rich documentary evidence for understanding the history of cultural life across the breadth of Europe and Asia down through the Middle Ages. Many illustrate engagement between and across languages, in both similar and contrasting ways from east to west. The demarcation of manuscript studies into single-language academic disciplines has often obscured this reality, privileging one constituent part or contributing language from each manuscript rather than exploring the combination as a nuanced and complex whole. This volume seeks to examine manuscripts as integrally united artefacts, respecting the diversity of their constituent elements. Case studies are presented of twelve manuscripts with evidence for various levels of inter-language exchange and collision, from horizons as diverse as the Atlantic West, Carolingian Europe, the Byzantine world, the Silk Road cultures, and east Asia. The essays function individually as discrete contributions, but together they highlight a range of overlapping themes, illustrating language interaction in global religions, pedagogical exchange, and secular society-building.The analogies as well as the concrete points of connection between them underline the value of a cross-disciplinary approach.

The Mardzong Manuscripts

Author : Agnieszka Helman-Ważny
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900444372X
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Mardzong Manuscripts written by Agnieszka Helman-Ważny and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2008, an international team of climbers discovered a large collection of Tibetan manuscripts in a cave complex called Mardzong, in Nepal’s remote Mustang district. The following year, the entire cache—over five thousand folios from some sixty different works of the Buddhist and Bön religions, some more than seven centuries old—were removed to the safe keeping of a monastery, where they were later examined by experts from different disciplines. This book is the result of their findings. The authors present what they have been able to discover about the content of these manuscripts, their age, the materials with which they were made, the patrons who commissioned them and the scribes and artists who created them. Contributors include: Agnieszka Helman-Ważny, Charles Ramble, Nyima Drandul Gurung, Naljor Tsering, Sarah Skumanov, Emilie Arnaud-Nguyen and Bazhen Zeren

The Buddhist Philosophy of the Middle

Author : David Seyfort Ruegg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861719360
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book The Buddhist Philosophy of the Middle written by David Seyfort Ruegg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-04-10 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madhyamaka, the "philosophy of the middle," systematized the Buddha's fundamental teaching on no-self with its profound non-essentialist reading of reality. Founded in India by Nagarjuna in about the second century CE, Madhyamaka philosophy went on to become the dominant strain of Buddhist thought in Tibet and exerted a profound influence on all the cultures of East Asia. Within the extensive Western scholarship inspired by this school of thought, David Seyfort Ruegg's work is unparalleled in its incisiveness, diligence, and scope. The Buddhist Philosophy of the Middle brings together Ruegg's greatest essays on Madhyamaka, expert writings which have and will continue to contribute to our progressing understanding of this rich tradition.