From Turfan to Dunhuang: Manichaean cosmogony in Chinese texts

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    Abstract

    The publication in the Journal Asiatique in 1911 by the two distinguished French Sinologues E. Chavannes and P. Pelliot of a long Manichaean treatise in Chinese recovered from the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas and brought back by Chinese scholars to Beijing was a formative landmark in the study of Chinese sources in Manichaeism.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationTurfan revisited
    Subtitle of host publicationthe first century of research into the arts and cultures of the Silk Road
    EditorsDesmond Durkin-Meisterernst, Simone-Christiane Raschmann, Jens Wilkens, Marianne Yaldiz, Peter Zieme
    Place of PublicationBerlin, Germany
    PublisherDietrich Reimer Verlag
    Pages169-175
    Number of pages7
    ISBN (Print)3496027630
    Publication statusPublished - 2004

    Publication series

    NameMonographien zur indischen Archäologie, Kunst und Philologie
    PublisherDietrich Reimer Verlag
    Volume17

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