Newly Found Dunhuang Fragments of Śatasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā in the Collection of the IOM, RAS

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the paper presents eleven fragments of Śatasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā identified during analysis of Khara-khoto collection of Tibetan texts kept in the IOM, RAS. In 2019 as an intermediate result of a project ‘Compilation of the Catalogue of the Tibetan texts from Khara-Khoto preserved at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, RAS’ being done by researchers of the institute thirty-three fragments that had been added to Khara-khoto collection by mistake, were transferred to a separate collection of Tibetan texts from Dunhuang. Although the edited fragments of Śatasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā cannot be considered to be unique they are worth studying in terms of codicology.

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Anna A. Turanskaya

Institute of Oriental Manuscripts RAS, St-Petersburg

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