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Zorin A. On a “Golden” Khara-Khoto Manuscript Preserved in the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, RAS // Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines, No. 56, 2020. P. 161—169.
It is well-known that the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of
the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, possesses a
collection of Tibetan texts brought by Pyotr Kozlov from the
dead city of Khara-Khoto (presently, Inner Mongolia, PRC). Its contents,
however, still remain largely unknown for the academia due to
the lack of its catalogue. While such a catalogue is being prepared by
A. A. Sizova, A. A. Turanskaya and myself, some texts of the collection
can be already presented. In this paper I would like to introduce
a manuscript on blue paper with golden writings — the only sample
of such a kind of texts among those found by Kozlov in Khara-Khoto.
It was rediscovered among the Tangut texts by K. M. Bogdanov, the
curator of the Tangut collection kept at the IOM RAS, in 2017. Having
been passed to the collection of Tibetan texts from Khara-Khoto, it
received an access number XT-180.The manuscript was almost immediately
demonstrated to the wide audience at the exhibition Brush
and Qalam dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the foundation of the
Asiatic Museum held at the State Hermitage (November 2018 to
March 2019). Its brief description and fragmentary facsimile edition
was included in the catalogue of the exhibition (Zorin 2018, 236).1
However, this manuscript deserves a fuller presentation since it has
some significance in regard of both its form as a book and the text it
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