Category Archives: Chinese manuscript

Graphic variation in early Chinese writing

Posted on 04/30/2017 by imre

Imre Galambos, “Graphic variation in early Chinese writing.” In Gábor Kósa, ed., China Across the Centuries: Papers from a Lecture Series in Budapest. Budapest: Department of East Asian Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, 2017, 33–59. Reading Warring States manuscripts we are … Continue reading →

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Composite manuscripts in medieval China: The case of scroll P.3720 from Dunhuang

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Imre Galambos, “Composite manuscripts in medieval China: The case of scroll P.3720 from Dunhuang.” In Michael Friedrich and Cosima Schwarke, eds., One-Volume Libraries: Composite Manuscripts and Multiple Text Manuscripts. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2016, 355–378. Manuscript Pelliot chinois 3720 (hereafter: P.3720) … Continue reading →

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A snapshot of Dunhuang studies, circa 2016

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Imre Galambos, “A snapshot of Dunhuang Studies, Circa 2016.” Orientations (2016) 47.4, 33–38. The Dunhuang manuscripts were discovered in the summer of 1900 in a sealed-off cave within the Buddhist cave-temple complex (also known as Qianfodong, or ‘Thousand Buddha Caves’), at Mogao, near the … Continue reading →

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Scribbles on the verso of manuscripts written by lay students in Dunhuang

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Imre Galambos, “Scribbles on the verso of manuscripts written by lay students in Dunhuang.” Tonkō shahon kenykū nenpō 敦煌寫本硏究年報 (2016) 10, 497–522. The vast corpus of Dunhuang manuscripts includes a series of items with what we may call ‘educational texts’ … Continue reading →

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Confucian education in a Buddhist environment

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Imre Galambos, “Confucian education in a Buddhist environment: Medieval manuscripts and imprints of the Mengqiu.” Studies in Chinese Religions (2015) 1.3, 269–288. Although most of the surviving collections of medieval manuscripts and imprints are of Buddhist nature, they normally include a … Continue reading →

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