Ruth W. Dunnell is James P. Storer Assistant Professor of Asian History at Kenyon College.
摘要
In the late tenth and eleventh centuries, a group of people known in Western and Japanese scholarship as the Tangut established an independent regime in the Ordos (present-day Ningxia, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Inner Mongolia). It quickly grew into the Xia empire, a multiethnic, multilingual state whose ruling dynasty, a people ethnically and linguistically related to Tibetans, adapted elements of Chinese and Inner Asian statecraft, culture, and religion. Xia continued to grow in prominence, and its people became renowned throughout Asia as devout Buddhists. An imperial state was formally born in 1038 and chronicled its existence up to 1227, when it was finally crushed in Chinggis Khan's last campaign. The Great State of White and High is the first book-length treatment in English of Tangut Xia history. Exhibiting a mastery of languages, Ruth Dunnell has produced a pioneering, systematic study using primary and secondary sources in Tangut and Chinese to reconstruct early imperial Xia history from the inside.
目次
Frontmatter i Contents vii Preface ix Conventions xiii Xia Rulers and Reign Era Titles xvii Genealogy of Eleventh-Century Xia Dynastic Alliances xx Brief Chronology of the Main Events in Xia History xxi
PART 1. BUDDHISM IN ELEVENTH-CENTURY XIA CHAPTER 1. Introduction 3 CHAPTER 2. Buddhism and Monarchy in the Early Tangut State 27 CHAPTER 3. Buddhism under the Regencies (1049–1099) 50
PART 2. THE 1094 STELE INSCRIPTIONS FROM LIANGZHOU CHAPTER 4. A History of the Dayun (Huguo) Temple at Liangzhou 87 CHAPTER 5. Annotated Translation of the 1094 Stele Inscriptions 118 CHAPTER 6 .Reading between the Lines: A Comparison and Analysis of the Tangut and Han Texts 133 CHAPTER 7. Conclusion 157
Appendices A. Photoreproductions of Rubbings of the 1094 Gantong Stûpa Stele Inscriptions 163 APPENDIX B. Chronology of Sources Recording or Discussing the Inscriptions on the Gantong Stûpa Stele 173 Abbreviations 179 Notes 181 A Select Glossary of Chinese Names and Terms 243 Bibliography 253 Index 271
