俄藏黑水城TK326號寫本與《契丹藏》的關係考辨=Textual Research on the Relationship between the Khara Khoto document TK326 in the Russian Collection and the Text of Khitan Tripitaka
Document TK326, a manuscript unearthed from Khara-Khoto that has yet to receive very much academic attention, transcribes three Buddhist sutras: Sutra of the Original Acts of the Bodhisattva, Sutra of the Wise Man and the Fool, and Sutra of Protecting the Pure. According to the volume number in the Thousand Character Classic and collation notes on Khitan Tripitaka, this paper attempts to clarify that the three sutras recorded in TK326 are closely related to the text of Khitan Tripitaka,and that the master copies from which they were transcribed are either a single copy of Khitan Tripitaka or separate documents that were written based on this text. A great amount of research has already been done to illustrate the close connection between the Liao and the Western Xia dynasties based on the contents of Tangut literature that reflects the Buddhist beliefs popular in the Liao dynasty. This paper attempts to further reveal evidence of textual exchanges of Buddhist texts between the Liao and the Western Xia.
