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Buddhist confession and prayer with Buddhanama. Sogdian and Chinese on verso.

Title Buddhist confession and prayer with Buddhanama. Sogdian…

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8210/S.1084

Item type scroll
Vajracchedikaprajnaparamitasutra (Diamond Sutra) 金剛般若波羅蜜經 (Jing gang bo re bo luo mi jing) translated by Kumarajiva

Title Vajracchedikaprajnaparamitasutra (Diamond Sutra) 金剛般若波羅蜜經 (Jing gang bo…

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8210/S.1360

Item type scroll
Buddhist sutra in Chinese with Sogdian on verso.

Title Buddhist sutra in Chinese with Sogdian on…

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8210/S.4083

Item type scroll
Sogdian text with a few lines of Chinese on recto, and a Chinese text mentioning Uygurs of Ganzhou on verso.

Title Sogdian text with a few lines of…

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8210/S.5863

Item type paper fragment
no image available

Title Buddhist manuscript fragment with Vessantara Jātaka in…

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/80(A)

Item type Fragment
Manuscript fragment with Sogdian Buddhist text.

Title Manuscript fragment with Sogdian Buddhist text.

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/80(B)

Item type scroll
Sogdian manuscript fragment with part of the tale of Rustam. There is a line of Chinese on verso.

Title Sogdian manuscript fragment with part of the…

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/81

Item type paper fragment
Fragment with Sogdian text on one side and Chinese on the other. The Sogdian is probably the same text as Or.8212/83.

Title Fragment with Sogdian text on one side…

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/82

Item type paper fragment
Fragment of a scroll with a Chinese Buddhist text on one side and a Sogdian text on other. Possibly same Sogdian text as Or.8212/82.

Title Fragment of a scroll with a Chinese…

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/83

Item type scroll
A rare example of Zoroastrian literature in Sogdian, with part of the Ashem vohu, a prayer from the Avesta.

Title A rare example of Zoroastrian literature in…

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/84

Item type paper fragment
no image available

Title Manuscript containing Dhyana in Sogdian with Chinese…

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/85

Item type scroll
Letter in Sogdian from a Christian priest to a Turkic Government official in Shazhou. Sutra in Chinese on other side

Title Letter in Sogdian from a Christian priest…

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/86

Item type scroll
Manuscript fragment containing Sogdian Buddhist text.

Title Manuscript fragment containing Sogdian Buddhist text.

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/88

Item type scroll
Letter in Sogdian from the ruler Tamar Qus to the Christian 'George' dated to c.885.

Title Letter in Sogdian from the ruler Tamar…

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/89

Item type scroll
Sogdian manuscript

Title Sogdian manuscript

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/111(A)

Item type paper fragment
Sogdian manuscript

Title Sogdian manuscript

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/111(B)

Item type scroll
Sogdian manuscript

Title Sogdian manuscript

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/111(C)

Item type scroll
Sogdian manuscript

Title Sogdian manuscript

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/111(D)

Item type scroll
Sogdian manuscript

Title Sogdian manuscript

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/111(E)

Item type scroll
no image available

Title manuscript

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/158
no image available

Title Manuscript scroll with Chinese Buddhist text on…

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/159

Item type scroll
Dhuta-sutra in Sogdian with Chinese text on other side.

Title Dhuta-sutra in Sogdian with Chinese text on…

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/160

Item type scroll
Sogdian manuscript fragment, probably a Buddhist text.

Title Sogdian manuscript fragment, probably a Buddhist text.

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/194(F)

Item type paper fragment
Pelliot sogdien 1

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Pelliot sogdien 1

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Manuscript (inc. blockprint) 67
scroll 15 paper fragment 6 Fragment 1
manuscript, ink on paper 67
Buddhism 16 Manicheanism 3 Christian 2 Literary 1 Official 1 Social and Economic 1 Sponsored 1 Zoroastrian 1
Dunhuang Mogao 67
Bibliothèque nationale de France 44 British Library 23

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Sogdian (lang.) 67 Sogdian (script) 22 Chinese (lang.) 11 Chinese (script) 11
Pelliot 1908 44 Stein 1906-8 17 Stein 1913-16 6
List of Manuscripts in Languages of Central Asia and Sanskrit (Barnett) 13 Non-Buddhist Documents from Dunhuang in the British Library (Boltz) 2 Buddhism: Art and Faith (Zwalf) 1 Chinese Manuscripts from Dunhuang in the British Library (Giles 1957) 1 Lay Students and the Making of Written Vernacular Narrative (Mair 1981) 1

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