Vorobyeva-Desyatovskaya M. [Review:] Tsuguhito Takeuchi. Old Tibetan Contracts from Central Asia. Tokyo: Daizo Shuppan, 1995, 515 pp., with Plates of Tibetan and of Chinese texts (pp. 3—63) // Manuscripta Orientalia. Vol. 2. No. 1. March 1996. P. 66—67.
This work by Tsuguhito Takeuchi, Professor at the
Kyoto University, is actually the first summary study of the
Tibetan economic documents of the first half of the 9th
century discovered by European expeditions in Chinese
Turkestan and in Dunhuang at the end of the last century
and in the first quarter of the 20th century. These documents
became distributed among several collections: of the
British Museum (Aurel Stein collection), the Bibliothèque
Nationale de Paris (Paul Pelliot collection) and the Museum
of Ethnology in Stockholm (Sven Hedin collection). In the
course of ten years of his work on these collections Takeuchi
distinguished 58 documents which he identified as
the oldest Tibetan contracts. These come from Dunhuang,
Mīrān, Mazār Tagh, Old Domako, Khādalik and the Turfan
Depression...
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