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This article examines how dynasties applied the Five Elements theory in their respective legitimation discourses throughout the history of imperial China. Drawing on both documentary and visual sources, I reveal that the Liao, Jin, and... more
(Images provided further) The Xi Xia kingdom, extending from the Gansu to the Ordos, was established as an independent regime in 1038 and lasted until 1227. As the great neighbor of the Song Chinese, Tibetan, Liao and Jin kingdoms, Xi... more
The Mongol adoption of Tibetan Buddhism has been traditionally ascribed almost solely to missionary activities of Tibetan clerics. Recent scholarship, however, has revealed a more complex picture, which shows the Xi Xia background of... more
(This contains only the images from the thesis. See previous download for the text) The Xi Xia kingdom, extending from the Gansu to the Ordos, was established as an independent regime in 1038 and lasted until 1227. As the great neighbor... more
My speech on the 21st Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies, Saint-Petersburg, 25.8.2016
The talk was given at the 6th intentional conference on Tibetan archaeology and arts in Hangzhou, October 2015.
A brief sketch of the history of Russian Tangut studies, full of brilliant minds and tragic fates. I have to apologise - on p. 237 I repeat the Nevsky's version about translation of Lotus sutra made by some unknown Chinese reader and... more
隨著近年來新文物的出土、古籍圖書的整理出版、以及跨學科思潮的激蕩,中古中國的視覺文化研究正在蓬勃發展中。本次演講擬介紹一類目前尚未為學界充分運用的視覺材料:十至十五世紀期間製作、爲數可觀的佛教木刻版畫,其中包括西北及北方中國考古發掘的西夏、遼、金、元佛經,佛臟及佛塔内發現的宋、金、明佛經,以及歷代官方及民間刊刻的數版《大藏經》等。這批材料,不論從印刷出版史、科技史、書籍史、宗教史、中外關係史、物質文化史、藝術史的角度檢驗,都是極爲珍貴的知識及文化載體,值得對之進行系統性整理、... more
The talk was given at The Silk Road and the Art of the Tibetan Plateau Forum — Pāla Art and its Influence in China / 青藏高原絲路與藝術論壇 — 波羅藝術與中國, Asia Society, Hong Kong, 26-27 May 2018.
The article continues to acquaint readers with results of the study of a xylograph from Khara-Khoto found by Pyotr Kozlov during the Mongol-Sichuan Expedition (1907 - 1909). The author analyzes short dhāraṇīs and mantras included in the... more
ISBN 978-84-941099-7-3 Desde tiempos inmemoriales Asia ha sido la cuna de numerosos imperios pero, de entre todos ellos, llegando a abarcar desde el Pacífico hasta el Mediterráneo y desde Siberia hasta el Índico, los mongoles crearon el... more
Tree names in Tangut-Chinese Glossary "Pearl in the Palm"