Sogdian Manuscript Fragments from the Collection of S.F. Oldenburg (The Serindia Collection of the IOM, RAS). Part 2

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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 the scrolls with the Chinese texts on the back, as is the case with most similar texts. The 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 (the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka-sūtra), and to determine the order of all the fragments. This enabled us to collate the new Sogdian fragments with some previously published ones, to determine their order and thus to get a closer 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 (cutting the scrolls into separate sheets, the possible gluing together of the sheets in a different order, etc.).

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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

Russian Federation, St. Petersburg

Olga M. Chunakova

Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, RAS

Author for correspondence.
Email: ochunakova@inbox.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6409-1149
SPIN-code: 5146-7100

Dr. Sci (Philology), Leading Researcher of the Department of Middle Eastern and Near Eastern Studies

Russian Federation, St. Petersburg

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