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The Buddhist Sogdian texts of the British Library / edited by D. N. MacKenzie.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Acta Iranica ; 10.
- Acta Iranica. Textes et mémoires ; Troisième série, v. 3.
- Acta Iranica ; 10 : 3. sér., Textes et mémoires ; v. 3
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Multiple languages
- Sogdian
- Subjects (All):
- Manuscripts, Sogdian.
- Sogdian language--Texts.
- Sogdian language.
- Sogdian literature--Translations into English.
- Sogdian literature.
- English literature--Translations from Sogdian.
- English literature.
- Buddhism--Sacred books.
- Buddhism.
- Genre:
- Sacred works.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 77, 220, 108 pages : 108 facsimiles ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Téhéran ; Liège : Bibliothèque Pahlavi ; Leiden : Diffusion, E. J. Brill, 1976.
- Notes:
- "All the major Sogdian texts brought back by Sir Aurel Stein in 1907 from the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas near Tun-huang and preserved in the British Library (Former Library of the British Museum) have been published at least once. H. Reichelt's edition of Die soghdischen Handschriftenreste des British Museums, 1919-1931 completed the first series of publication."--p. [ix].
- Transcribed Sogdian texts and English translations on opposite pages.
- ISBN:
- 9004045384
- OCLC:
- 22208444
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