Tibetan blockprint from Khara-Khoto preserved in the Collection of the IOM, RAS

Anna A. Turanskaya; Туранская Анна Александровна

doi:10.17816/WMO63689

Tibetan blockprint from Khara-Khoto preserved in the Collection of the IOM, RAS

Authors: Turanskaya A.A.¹
Affiliations:
1. Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences
Issue: Vol 18, No 2 (2021)
Pages: 5-23
Section: Research works
URL: https://journals.eco-vector.com/1811-8062/article/view/63689
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/WMO63689
ID: 63689

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Fragments of Tibetan manuscripts and block prints from Khara-Khoto that were transferred to the Asiatic Museum after the P.K. Kozlov’s Mongolia and Sichuan Expedition, have been insufficiently studied. As the result of the cataloguing project initiated by the researchers of the IOM, RAS in 2018, an unknown Tibetan block print was discovered. The preserved fragment includes two texts dedicated to Buddhist Deity Mañjuśrī. This paper presents the brief archaeographic description of the block print, transliteration and translation of the preserved parts of texts.

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Tibetan block print, Tibetan texts from Khara-Khoto, Mañjusrinamasaṃgiti

About the authors

Anna A. Turanskaya

Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences

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Email: turanskaya@mail.ru

PhD, Junior Researcher, Laboratory “Serindica”

Russian Federation, Dvortsovaia naberezhnaia 18, St. Petersburg, 191186

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