故宮六品佛樓諸尊名號考釋例舉 -- 以梵華樓、寶相樓為基礎=Research on the Titles and Names of Deities in the Six Buddhist Temples (Liupin Folou) of the Forbidden City: Focus on Fenhua Lou and Baoxiang Lou
This paper begins by examining the Chinese and Tibetan titles of deities that appear in the thangkas or as statuary in two of the six Buddhist temple complexes of the Forbidden City – Fenhua Lou and Baoxiang Lou. The author focuses on an analysis of errors in the Sino-Tibetan names inscribed on the articles themselves, methods of transcribing Tibetan names into Chinese and the errors often made by Western scholars who attempt to restore the original Sanskrit names of these deities. This is a pioneering study in a new ?eld of research focusing on these Buddhist halls in the imperial palace of the Qianlong reign.
