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Taboo characters in Buddhist manuscripts from Dunhuang

Posted on 06/18/2013 by imre

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 →

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Odd variants in a Buddhist manuscript

Posted on 08/20/2012 by imre

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 →

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