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Tag Archives: Character variants
She association circulars from Dunhuang
“She association circulars from Dunhuang.” In Antje Richter, ed., History of Chinese Epistolary Culture. (Handbuch der Orientalistik.) Leiden: Brill, 2015: 853–877. This is an article published in Antje Richter’s volume on the history of Chinese epistolary culture, which is a … 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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Unattested character variant
Last May, Sam and I went on a trip to Gansu and Qinghai provinces to visit the sites along a medieval pilgrimage route. (On this trip, see Sam’s entry on his blog: Amdo Notes II.) I got to Lanzhou first … Continue reading
Posted in 20th century, Character variants, Chinese writing, Dunhuang, epigraphy, Orthography
Tagged Character variants, unattested variant
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