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A Tibeto-Chinese Word-and-Phrase Book
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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The two fragments here transliterated and interpreted were discovered among the mass of manuscripts brought back by the late Sir Aurel Stein from the cave–shrines of the “Thousand Buddhas” near Tun–huang, in Western Kan–su. These texts are written on the back of two short fragments of the “Diamond” and “Lotus” siitras in Chinese, dating probably from the early ninth century A.D. They are particularized in the note below.
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 12 , Issue 3-4 , October 1948 , pp. 753 - 769
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page 753 note 1 MS. A = British Museum MS. Or. S. 2736: paper, c. 42 cm. by 25 cm., fragmentary at the beginning and with a piece torn away at the top right: normal Tibetan dbu–can script of the period (ninth century A.D. ?), largish size, 11. 36, parallel to the short side (width) of the paper and without appreciable margin; many aksaras thickly inked over. Some particulars of the script are noted supra. MS. B = British Museum MS. Or. S. 1000: paper, c. 12 cm. by 23.5 (width) cm., fragmentary at beginning, cut away at end: normal Tibetan dbu–can script, as in MS. A, but of smaller size and more abraded and blurred, 11. 12, parallel to width and without margin; many aksaras thickly inked over, as in MS. A.
page 753 note 2 See JRAS., 1926, pp. 508–526; 1927, pp. 281–306; 1929, pp. 37–76: and, with Brahmi script, ZDMG.,91 (1937), pp. 1–48.Google Scholar
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