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...
moreA 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 used by Morisse. Thanks to M. West I know now that it wasn't true - as wrote P. Pelliot, which was a witness of this sutra's finding, it was found without any marks, all Chinese translations were add by Morisse himself. The only help (but huge!) was a piece of paper on which was indicated in Chinese, that it's a Tangut text of Lotus sutra.
And, in addition, this White pagoda it's not 白塔寺, but a pagoda in Beihai park.
