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Tag Archives: taboo characters
Taboo characters in Buddhist manuscripts from Dunhuang
This is an article that came out in China so the font is a bit–but it is still readable. In the article, I examine how consistently imperial name taboos were observed in Buddhist texts from Dunhuang. Many scholars in the … 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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