Email this article Sogdian Manuscript Fragments from the Collection of S.F. Oldenburg (The Serindia Collection of the IOM, RAS) Part 1
- Authors: Zaytsev V.P.1, Chunakova O.M.1
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Affiliations:
- Institute of Oriental Manuscripts RAS
- Issue: Vol 18, No 4 (2021)
- Pages: 76-90
- Section: History and historiography
- Published: 29.12.2021
- URL: https://journals.eco-vector.com/1811-8062/article/view/64037
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/WMO64037
- ID: 64037
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This paper, published in two parts, presents the results of joint work on several Sogdian fragments recently discovered in the Serindia Collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IOM, RAS), written on scrolls with Chinese texts on the back, as is the case with most similar texts. Study of the Chinese texts on the other side has made it possible to identify them as belonging to the commonly-occurring Buddhist text of the Lotus Sutra (Saddharmapuṇḍarīka-sūtra), and to determine the order of all the fragments. This enabled us to join the new Sogdian fragments with some previously published ones, to determine their order and thus get a better understanding of the Sogdian texts of these fragments. It is also possible to note some features of the use of Chinese scrolls by the Sogdian Manichaeans (the cutting of the scrolls into separate sheets, the possible gluing of the sheets in a different order, etc.).
About the authors
Viacheslav P. Zaytsev
Institute of Oriental Manuscripts RAS
Email: sldr76@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6870-0877
SPIN-code: 5302-3512
Scopus Author ID: 57200333618
ResearcherId: O-9275-2016
Researcher of the Department of Far Eastern Studies, Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation, Dvortsovaia naberezhnaia 18, St. Petersburg, 191186Olga M. Chunakova
Institute of Oriental Manuscripts RAS
Author for correspondence.
Email: ochunakova@inbox.ru
SPIN-code: 5146-7100
Dr. Sci (Philology), Leading Researcher of the Department of Middle Eastern and Near Eastern Studies, Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation, Dvortsovaia naberezhnaia 18, St. Petersburg, 191186References
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