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Category Archives: published papers
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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The beginnings of Tibetan studies: Denison Ross and Alexander Csoma de Kőrös
This is an article of mine that has just come out: Imre Galambos. “‘Touched a nation’s heart’: Sir R. Denison Ross and Alexander Csoma de Kőrös.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 21, No. 3 (July 2011): 361-375. Read … Continue reading
Reversed inscriptions: Chinese writing going from left to right
I have come across an inscription which is read in reversed order, that is, from left to right. This is a famous inscription called Mogaoku ji (Record of the Mogao Caves) on the wall of the antechamber of Cave 156 … Continue reading
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Tagged Chinese writing, Dunhuang, inscription
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Manuscript copies of stone inscriptions
Putting some of my older publications online: Manuscript copies of stone inscriptions in the Dunhuang corpus: Issues of dating and provenance (Imre Galambos) Asiatische Studien/Études Asiatiques LXIII, 4, 2009: 809-826. Abstract Modern observers tend to simplify the complex process of … Continue reading
Posted in Chinese writing, Dating, Dunhuang, epigraphy, Orthography, Palaeography, published papers
Tagged Dunhuang manuscripts, inscriptions, Mogaoku ji
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The Third Ōtani Expedition at Dunhuang
Putting some of my older publications online: The Third Ōtani Expedition at Dunhuang: Acquisition of the Japanese Collection of Dunhuang Manuscripts (Imre Galambos) Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology 3/2008: 29-35 Aurel Stein’s 1907 visit to the hidden cave … Continue reading
Posted in 20th century, archaeology, Dunhuang, exploration, Japanese, Otani expeditions, published papers
Tagged Dunhuang, exploration, Otani expeditions, Silk Road
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Japanese ‘Spies’ along the Silk Road
Putting some of my older publications online: Japanese ‘Spies’ along the Silk Road: British Suspicions Regarding the Second Otani Expedition (1908-09) (Imre Galambos) Japanese Religions, Vol. 35, 1& 2(2010): 33-61 Abstract: The beginning of the 20th century saw the Golden … Continue reading
Posted in 20th century, archaeology, exploration, Japanese, Otani expeditions, published papers
Tagged Japanese, Kashgar, Otani expeditions, Otani Kozui, Silk Road, spies
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Scribal Notation in Medieval Chinese Manuscripts
Putting some of my older publications online: Scribal Notation in Medieval Chinese Manuscripts: The hewen (Ligature) and the chongwen (Duplication) Marks (by Imre Galambos) Manuscript Cultures (2010), No. 2. Early Chinese manuscripts and inscriptions often make use of two devices … Continue reading
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Tagged chongwen, Dunhuang manuscripts, Hewen, ligature, scribal habits
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Sir Aurel Stein, Lajos Ligeti and a case of mistaken identity
Putting online some of my older publications: Another Hungarian looting China’s treasures? Sir Aurel Stein, Lajos Ligeti and a case of mistaken identity (Imre Galambos) Tonkō shahon kenkyū nenpō 敦煌写本研究年報, no. 4 (March 2010): 195-207. The voluminous publication Zhonghua minguo … Continue reading
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Tagged Aurel Stein, Dunhuang, exploration, Lajos Ligeti, manuscripts
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Chinese seals in Ireland
Putting online some of my older publications: The story of the Chinese seals found in Ireland (Imre Galambos) Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Series 3, 18, 4 (2008), pp. 465-479. In 1850, a paper was read before the Royal … Continue reading
Posted in 19th century, Chinese writing, Dating, History of scholarship, published papers, Seals
Tagged Chinese seals, Ireland
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