Une bibliothèque médiévale retrouvée au Kan-sou

Pelliot, Paul

doi:10.3406/befeo.1908.4297

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“…It is difficult to compile a complete list, and it is unnecessary to do so here. To name a few of the more significant studies: Fang 1991; Fujieda 1966, 1969; Huntington 1986; Imaeda 2008; Liu Jinbao 2000; Ma Shichang 1978; Pelliot 1908: 506; Rong Xinjiang 1999; Sha Wutian 2006; Stein 1921: 820 ff. ; and most recently van Schaik and Galambos 2012: 18–27.…”

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“…5While largely agreeing with Stein's idea that the Dunhuang manuscripts were collections of Buddhist texts that had been discarded or fallen into disuse, Fang (1991) adds further reasons to refute the “war hoard” hypothesis, especially Paul Pelliot's idea that the Dunhuang cave was sealed to protect Buddhism from the Tangut invasion: (1) The original arrangement of the Dunhuang manuscripts prior to Stein's arrival is still unclear (they were perhaps not found in disorder), and the disorganized state witnessed by Pelliot (1908: 506, “Pêle-mêle on entassa chinois et tibétain …”) and Stein (1921: 808) may have been due largely to the personal interference of the Taoist priest who took care of the shrine, Wang Yuanlu. (2) War hoards generally consist of choice and valuable items, but what was preserved in the cave did not reflect the best or the most complete collections of the period – for example, there is no trace of any complete Chinese canon, which certainly existed in the capital and was probably already being circulated in Dunhuang at that time; instead, they were more likely collections of texts that had fallen into disuse after an extensive monastic inventory project in the early eleventh century.…”

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“…6Pelliot 1908: 506: “Il est donc évident que la niche à été murée dans la première moitié du XIe siècle, et probablement à l’époque de la conquête si-hia qui eut lieu vers 1035”.…”

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By no means doodles or scraps: reading manuscripts IOL Tib J 3 and 218 as bilingual Dunhuang Vinaya works

2022

Bull. Sch. Orient. Afr. stud.

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Under the sway of the dominant “waste” theories on the nature of Dunhuang manuscripts, we tend to default to the conclusion that IOL Tib J 3 and 218 contain independent Chinese and Tibetan texts joined in the process of recycling discarded manuscripts. However, this paper demonstrates that the texts from these two manuscripts constitute coherent Vinaya compositions. The three layers of the handwriting of these two manuscripts were not written randomly, but exhibit clear-cut functions: while the larger Tibetan script, which was produced in a previous project, was used to write Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya commentaries, the smaller Tibetan script and the Chinese script were created as parts of the same bilingual project to provide different textual sources on the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya texts. The Chinese and the Tibetan text in the smaller script, proceeding from the high-level bilingualism of Dunhuang Buddhist communities, display a robust thematic affinity in many cases.

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“… 10 For example, while preparing his excavation in the Mogao Caves, Pelliot (1908: 501) obtained, from the local yamen, a copy of the 1831 edition of Dunhuang Xianzhi 敦煌縣志 (General History of Dunhuang County) and read it carefully for useful information. …”

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Victor Segalen’s 1914 archaeological mission in Sichuan: The untold story

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2020

French Cultural Studies

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This essay challenges the French poet, naval doctor, archaeologist and sinologist Victor Segalen’s established image as a literary modernist who broke with colonial exoticism. I use a set of previously understudied primary sources, including Segalen’s own travel journals, archaeological accounts, letters and photo albums, as well as Chinese gazetteers and a stele inscription documenting his excavation of a tomb associated with Bao San Niang 鮑三娘 – the supposed daughter-in-law of the famous Chinese general Guan Yu 關羽. Through a study combining both textual and field investigations, this article not only points out the disjuncture between Segalen’s progressive theory and his actual practice, but also questions the tendency among critics – both Western and Chinese – to overstate Segalen’s contribution to East–West cross-cultural representation, while intentionally omitting his exploitative deeds.

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“… 6 The French Sinologue Paul Pelliot discovered fragments of the travelogue in the Dunhuang 敦煌 manuscript cache in Chinese Turkestan in 1908 and first identified Hyech'o as the author (see Pelliot 1908, 511–12). Thirty years later, the German philologist Walter Fuchs made the first translation of the text into a Western language (see Fuchs 1938).…”

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Korean Buddhist Journeys to Lands Worldly and Otherworldly

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2009

J of Asian Stud

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This Presidential Address explores Korean Buddhist travel undertaken for religious training, missionary propagation, and devotional pilgrimage. By traveling to India and throughout East Asia, as well as to the mythic undersea bastion of the faith, Koreans demonstrated their associations with the wider world of Buddhist culture, whether it be terrestrial or cosmological. Simultaneous with continued travel overseas to the Chinese mainland and the Buddhist homeland of India, Koreans also brought those sacred sites home through a wholesale remapping of the domestic landscape. As local geography became universalized, there was less need for the long, dangerous journeys overseas to Buddhist sacred sites: instead, the geography of Buddhism became implicit within the indigenous landscape, turning Korea into the Buddha-land itself. Once this “relocalization” of Buddhism had occurred, Korean Buddhists were able to travel through the sacred geography of Buddhism from the (relative) comfort of their own locale.

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Une bibliothèque médiévale retrouvée au Kan-sou

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By no means doodles or scraps: reading manuscripts IOL Tib J 3 and 218 as bilingual Dunhuang Vinaya works

By no means doodles or scraps: reading manuscripts IOL Tib J 3 and 218 as bilingual Dunhuang Vinaya works

Victor Segalen’s 1914 archaeological mission in Sichuan: The untold story

Korean Buddhist Journeys to Lands Worldly and Otherworldly

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