Dunhuang Manuscript Culture: End of the First Millennium

Galambos, Imre (著)

著者

Galambos, Imre (著)

出版年月日

2020.12.07

ページ

290

出版者

Walter de Gruyter

出版サイト

https://www.degruyter.com/

出版地

Boston, MA, US [波士頓, 麻薩諸塞州, 美國]

シリーズ

Studies in Manuscript Cultures

シリーズナンバー

資料の種類

書籍=Book

言語

英文=English

ノート

Imre Galambos, University of Cambridge, UK.

キーワード

Chinese manuscripts; Dunhuang manuscripts; Silk Road; Central Asia

抄録

“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.

Frontmatter I
Contents V
Acknowledgements VII
Introduction 1
1 Multiple-text Manuscripts 23
2 Manuscripts Written by Students 85
3 Writing from Left to Right 139
4 Circulars and Names 195
Concluding Remarks 248
References 255
Index 285
About the Author 290

ISBN

9783110723496 (hc); 9783110726572 (eb)

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110726572

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