Buddhist followers suffered with great loss after the historical Buddha past away.They imitated the endeavor of the historical Buddha of achieving Buddhahood in order to comfort this loss.In this case,the historical B...
Legend says that Genghis Khan's dying wish was to exterminate the Tangut Empire in China's northwest. Today, the lost empire presents historians a unique challenge in trying to reconstruct its history, language, and t...
Buddhism is central to understanding the globalized historical processes taking place in the Hexi Corridor,a region running northwest from the bank of the Yellow River up till the nowadays Xinjiang-Gansu border and be...
The Tangut affix 1kI:has a variety of functions.They are 1) one of the ’Prefix series 1’:’direction of action’ or ’perfective’,2) case-marker,and 3) verb-suffix marking the ’dual’ of the agent.We suggest that ...
This paper introduces the unpublished copy of a Tangut script Garland Sutra华严经(or Flower Ornament Sutra) volume/juan 41第四十一卷stored at the C.V.Starr East Asian Library at the University of California,Berkeley.I...
The paper is an attempt to generalize the results of the previous schol- arship concerning the nature and specific features of Sinitic Buddhism in the Tangut Empire. The major claim of the paper is that certain dimens...
As one of the Tibeto-Burman languages, Tangut had the unique construction of verb phrase. Through the investigation on the word order in some actual sentences, we re-analyze the verb-phrase construction of Tangut. Her...