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Author Archives: imre
Taboo characters in Buddhist manuscripts from Dunhuang
This is a paper that came out in China. The font is a bit odd but readable. The paper examines how consistently the imperial name taboos were observed in Buddhist texts from Dunhuang. Many scholars in the past have observed … Continue reading
Posted in Character variants, Chinese writing, Dating, Dunhuang, Orthography, Palaeography, published papers, Scribal habits
Tagged Buddhist, Dunhuang, manuscripts, taboo characters, texts
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Abbot Wang from the Mogao Caves
Abbot Wang, also known as Wang daoshi or Wang Tao-shih, is one of the most infamous figures in the history of Chinese archaeology. He was the Taoist priest (i.e. daoshi) who stayed at the Mogao Caves near Dunhuang, taking care … Continue reading
Posted in 20th century, archaeology, Aurel Stein, Dunhuang, exploration, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Abbot Wang, Aurel Stein, Dunhuang, Mogao Caves, Wang Tao-shih
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An English boy in Chinese Turkestan
I just received a hard copy of this paper and am putting it up a PDF so it is more accessible. The paper is about the young English boy who travelled with Tachibana Zuicho to Western China in 1910 on … Continue reading
Consistency in Tangut translations of Chinese military texts
This is an article that came out recently: Galambos, Imre. “Consistency in Tangut Translations of Chinese Military Texts“. In: Irina Popova ed., Tanguty v Tsentral’noj Azii: Sbornik stat’ej v chest’ 80-letija prof. E. I. Kychanova [Tanguts in Central Asia: a collection … Continue reading
Odd variants in a Buddhist manuscript
There is a Dunhuang copy of the Da fangbian Fo baoenjing 大方便佛報恩經 (The sutra of requiting kindness) at the National Library of China (shelfmark BD01534) which has a number of interesting character variants. One of them is the character 爾 … Continue reading
Posted in Character variants, Chinese writing, Dating, Dunhuang, Orthography, Palaeography, Scribal habits
Tagged Baoenjing, Buddhist, Character variants, Dunhuang, Jingdian shiwen, manuscript
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Aurel Stein’s visit to Japan
Galambos, Imre. “Sir Aurel Stein’s visit to Japan His diary and notebook.” In Helen Wang, ed., Sir Aurel Stein: Colleagues and collections. British Museum Research Publication 184 (2012): 1-9. This paper is based on Aurel Stein’s diary and notebook he kept while travelling in … Continue reading
Posted in archaeology, Aurel Stein, Dunhuang, History of scholarship, Japanese, published papers, Travel
Tagged Aurel Stein, diary, Dunhuang, Japan
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Grid lines in medieval Chinese scrolls: Functionality or design?
Medieval manuscript scrolls are often ruled with grid lines to guide the hand of the calligrapher. These lines are a basic feature of most standard Buddhist and Taoist scrolls, which typically have 17 characters per line and 27-28 (or 31) … Continue reading
Posted in archaeology, Chinese writing, Dunhuang, epigraphy, Palaeography, Scribal habits
Tagged functionality, grid lines, layout, Loulan, manuscripts
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An unrecognized photo of Aurel Stein
Last week we went down for a few days to the south of Hungary and while there I wanted to see at a village called Gádoros, near Orosháza, the “museum” of Zsigmond Justh (1863-1894), a talented Hungarian writer who died … Continue reading
Posted in 19th century, archaeology, Aurel Stein, exploration, History of scholarship
Tagged Aurel Stein, Dunsterville, Lahore, Mian Mir, photo, Zsigmond Justh
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Manuscripts and Travellers in your local bookstore
Sam van Schaik and Imre Galambos, Manuscripts and Travellers: The Sino-Tibetan Documents of a Tenth-Century Buddhist Pilgrim (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2012). Our book is finally out. It all started about 5 years ago when Sam asked me if I wanted to join … Continue reading
Posted in archaeology, Aurel Stein, books, Dunhuang, Palaeography, published papers, Scribal habits, Tibetan, Travel
Tagged Chinese, manuscript, tibetan
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Manuscripts of translations made from printed texts
Recently a 16-volume publication came out with “rare and precious” (guji zhenben 古籍珍本) travel manuscripts in the collection of the National Library of China (NLC). Having flipped through the volumes, I was surprised to find a text titled Xiongyali youji 匈牙利游記 (Record … Continue reading
Posted in 20th century, books, Dating, exploration, History of scholarship, Travel
Tagged Hungary, manuscript, National Library of China, textual transmission, travel, Xiongyali
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