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List of Tangut books

List of Tangut books

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This list of Tangut books comprises a list of manuscript and xylograph texts that are written in the extinct Tangut language and Tangut script. These texts were mostly produced within the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) during the 12th and 13th centuries, and include Buddhist sutras and explanatory texts, dictionaries and other philological texts, as well as translations of Chinese books and some original Tangut texts. Some Tangut texts, particularly Buddhist sutras, continued to be produced during the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), after the fall of the Western Xia dynasty, but the Tangut language became extinct sometime during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), and Tangut literature was only rediscovered in the early 20th century.

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Most of the books listed here were discovered hidden in a stupa outside the city walls of the abandoned Western Xia fortress city of Khara-Khoto in Inner Mongolia by Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov during his expedition of 1907–1909. A lesser number of texts (mostly fragments) were recovered from Khara-Khoto by Aurel Stein during his expedition of 1913–1916. A large number of complete and fragmentary Tangut texts have also been discovered at various sites in Inner Mongolia, Ningxia and Gansu in China during the 20th and 21st centuries.

Buddhist texts

A very large number of Buddhist texts have been preserved. Yevgeny Kychanov's 1999 catalogue of Buddhist texts from Khara-Khoto held at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg lists 768 entries which cover 370 separate titles.

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Dictionaries and philological works

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Original Tangut texts

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Translations of Chinese texts

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Footnotes

  1. [1]
    Du 2012, pp. 70–72
  2. [2]
    Du 2012, pp. 43–44
  3. [3]
    Nishida 1977, p. 39
  4. [4]
    Du 2012, pp. 46–59
  5. [5]
    Du 2012, pp. 38–41
  6. [6]
    Kychanov 1999, pp. 48–265
  7. [7]
    Kychanov 1999, pp. 356–378
  8. [8]
    Kychanov 1999, pp. 294–298
  9. [9]
    Du 2012, p. 45
  10. [10]
    Kychanov 1999, pp. 379–387
  11. [11]
    Du 2012, p. 43
  12. [12]
    Kychanov 1999, pp. 455–463
  13. [13]
    Du 2012, pp. 41–43
  14. [14]
    Solonin, Kirill J. (2008). "'The Twenty-Five Answers Concerning the Buddhist Principles': A Tangut Buddhist Manual from St. Petersburg Tangut Collection". Written Monuments of the Orient. 9 (2): 147–170. ISSN 1811-8062.
  15. [15]
    Gorbachëva & Kychanov 1963, pp. 43–45
  16. [16]
    Gorbachëva & Kychanov 1963, p. 45
  17. [17]
    Gorbachëva & Kychanov 1963, pp. 47–48
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    Li, Fanwen; Han, Xiaomang (2005). Tongyi Yanjiu 同义研究 [Study of the Synonyms]. Zhongguo shehuikexue chubanshe.
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    West, Andrew (September 2018). "An introduction to the Tangut Homonyms". Journal of Chinese Writing Systems. 2 (3): 195–207. doi:10.1177/2513850218778825. S2CID 134653208.
  20. [20]
    Gorbachëva & Kychanov 1963, pp. 50–52
  21. [21]
    Gorbachëva & Kychanov 1963, pp. 48–49
  22. [22]
    Gorbachëva & Kychanov 1963, pp. 55–56
  23. [23]
    Gorbachëva & Kychanov 1963, pp. 57–58
  24. [24]
    Gorbachëva & Kychanov 1963, pp. 68–86
  25. [25]
    Gorbachëva & Kychanov 1963, pp. 53–54
  26. [26]
    Gorbachëva & Kychanov 1963, p. 59
  27. [27]
    Galambos, Imre (2010). "The Tangut translation of the General's Garden by Zhuge Liang". Written Monuments of the Orient. 14 (1): 131–142. ISSN 1811-8062.
  28. [28]
    Gorbachëva & Kychanov 1963, pp. 36–37
  29. [29]
    Gorbachëva & Kychanov 1963, p. 56
  30. [30]
    Gorbachëva & Kychanov 1963, pp. 33–34
  31. [31]
    Gorbachëva & Kychanov 1963, p. 34
  32. [32]
    Gorbachëva & Kychanov 1963, pp. 34–35
  33. [33]
    Gorbachëva & Kychanov 1963, pp. 32–33

References

  • Du, Jianlu 杜建录 (2012). 中国藏西夏文献研究 [Study of Tangut documents held in China]. Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe. ISBN 978-7-5325-6615-0.
  • Gorbachëva, Z. I.; Kychanov, E. I. (1963). Тангутские рукописи и ксилографы [Tangut manuscripts and xylographs]. Moscow: Oriental Literature Publishing House.
  • Kychanov, E. I. (1999). Каталог тангутских буддийских памятников Института востоковедения Российской Академии Наук [Catalogue of Tangut Buddhist Monuments at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences]. Kyoto: Kyoto University.
  • Nishida, Tatsuo (1977). "西夏譯佛典目錄 [Catalogue of Tangut translations of Buddhist texts]". 西夏文華嚴經 [The Hsi-Hsia Avataṁsaka sūtra]. Kyoto.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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