Eighteen Lectures on Dunhuang

Contents
List of Illustrations and Maps
Series Editors’ Foreword
About the Author
Recommendation
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Introduction
	1. What is “Dunhuang Studies”?
	2. The Current State of Affairs in Dunhuang Studies
	3. Objectives and Difficulties in Dunhuang Studies: The Case of the Guiyijun
		a) Why Do We Study the History of the Guiyijun?
		b) What Are the Difficulties of Studying the History of the Guiyijun?
	4. Summary of this Book
Lecture 1 Dunhuang in Chinese History
	1. Dunhuang during the Western and Eastern Han Dynasties
	2. Dunhuang during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties
	3. Dunhuang during the Sui and Tang Periods
	4. Dunhuang during the Tibetan Period
	5. Dunhuang during the Guiyijun Period
	6. Dunhuang during the Xixia, Yuan, Ming and Qing Periods
Lecture 2 Dunhuang and the Silk Road
	1. Zhang Qian’s Journey to the West and the Beginnings of the Silk Road
	2. Cultural Prosperity and Cave Building at Mogao
	3. The Sui-Tang Prosperity and Cosmopolitan Cities
	4. Buddhist Dominance and the Significance of the Tibetan and Guiyijun Periods
	5. Shift in the Course of the Silk Road and Dunhuang’s Decline
Lecture 3 The Discovery of the Dunhuang Cave Library and its Early Dispersal
	1. Abbot Wang
	2. The Discovery of the Cave Library
	3. The Early Dispersal of the Original Collection
		a) The Collection of Yan Dong
		b) The Collection of Ye Changchi
		c) The Collection of Duan Fang
		d) The Collection of Su Zipei
		e) The Collection of Lu Jiliang
		f) Other Scattered Manuscripts
	4. The Fate of the Dunhuang Collection and the End of Abbot Wang’s Story
Lecture 4 The Nature of the Dunhuang Library Cave and the Reasons for its Sealing
	1. The Original Collection
	2. Monastic Collections in Dunhuang during the Guiyijun Period
	3. The Types of Materials in the Cave Library
	4. The Reasons for the Sealing
Lecture 5 Major Collections of Dunhuang Manuscripts
	1. The Stein Collection
	2. The Pelliot Collection
	3. The Oldenburg Collection
	4. Chinese Collections
	5. Japanese Collections
	6. Other Collections
Lecture 6 Scramble for the Treasures of Khotan, Kucha, Loulan and Gaochang
	1. “Prelude” to the Scramble for the Antiquities of Central Asia
	2. Archaeological Exploration of Central Asia at the Beginning of the 20th Century
		a) Sven Hedin’s Exploration
		b) The Three Central Asian Expeditions of Aurel Stein
		c) The Russian Expeditions
		d) The German Turfan Expeditions
		e) The Ōtani Expeditions
		f) The French Expedition of Paul Pelliot
	3. The Archaeology of Central Asia
		a) Khotan
		b) Kucha and Kharashahr
		c) Loulan and Niya
		d) Gaochang
Lecture 7 Dunhuang Studies and Oriental Studies in the West
	1. Russia
	2. Britain
	3. France
	4. Germany
	5. Other Countries
Lecture 8 Dunhuang Studies in China and Japan
	1. China
		a) Scholars of the Imperial University and the Beginnings of Dunhuang Studies
		b) The 1920–1940s
		c) The 1950s through the Cultural Revolution
		d) The Boom from After the Cultural Revolution until Today
		e) Summary
	2. Japan
		a) From the Beginning through the 1940s
		b) The Heightened Interest of the 1950s–1970s
	3. From the 1980s until Today
Lecture 9 The Political and Economic History of the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties in Light of Dunhuang Studies
	1. The System of Official Correspondence
	2. Administrative and Legal Institutions
	3. Military System
	4. The Institutions of Juntian and Corvée Labor
	5. Political History
Lecture 10 Dunhuang Studies and the Social History of the Medieval Period
	1. Population and Family
		a) Population
		b) Family
	2. Aristocratic Clans and Grassroots Society
		a) Aristocratic Clans
		b) She Associations
	3. Buddhist Communities and the Life of the Clergy
		a) Buddhist Communities
		b) Life of the Clergy
	4. Folklore Material among the Dunhuang Manuscripts
		a) Holidays
		b) Clothing, Food, Shelter and Travel
		c) Weddings and Funerals
		d) Folk Religion
		e) Entertainment
Lecture 11 The History of Central Asian Peoples and China’s Contacts with Her Neighbors in Light of Dunhuang Studies
	1. The Tibetans
	2. Dunhuang under Tibetan Rule
	3. The Spread of Chan Teachings to Tibet and Sino-Tibetan Cultural Contacts
	4. The Ganzhou and Xizhou Uighurs
	5. The Kingdom of Khotan
	6. Sogdian Colonies
	7. The Three Foreign Religions
	8. Records of Buddhist Pilgrims
Lecture 12 The Significance of Buddhist and Daoist Manuscripts from Dunhuang
	1. Overview of Buddhist Texts from Dunhuang
	2. The Value of Buddhist Texts from Dunhuang
		a) The Value of Old Manuscripts for Textual Criticism
		b) The Discovery of Early Chan Texts and Histories
		c) Lost Buddhist Texts and the Study of the History of Buddhism
		d) Apocryphal Sūtras
	3. Daoist Texts from Dunhuang
Lecture 13 Dunhuang Copies of Traditional Chinese Texts and Medieval Intellectual History
	1. The Classics ( jing)
	2. The Histories (shi)
	3. The Philosophers (zi)
	4. The Belles-Lettres (ji)
Lecture 14 Language and Literature in Light of Dunhuang Studies
	1. Chinese Language
		a) Phonology
		b) Semantic Exegesis and Orthography
	2. Central Asian Languages
	3. Popular Literature
		a) Sūtra Lectures
		b) Transformation Texts
		c) Yinyuan
		d) Ciwen
		e) Huaben
		f ) Narrative Rhapsodies
		g) Popular Rhapsodies
		h) Quzici
		i) Folk Poems
Lecture 15 Dunhuang Studies and the History of Science and Technology
	1. Astronomy
	2. Mathematics
	3. Medicine
	4. Paper Making and Printing Technology
Lecture 16 Dunhuang in Light of Art and Archaeology
	1. Cave Art and Architecture
	2. Sculpture
	3. Dunhuang Murals
		a) Images of the Buddha Teaching the Dharma (Shuofa tu 說法圖)
		b) Illustrations of the Life of the Buddha (Fozhuan tu 佛傳圖)
		c) Illustrations of Jātaka Tales (bensheng tu 本生圖)
		d) Bodhisattva Figures
		e) Sūtra Illustrations (jingbian tu 經變圖)
		f) Illustrations of Auspicious Images (ruixiang tu 瑞像圖)
	4. Decorative Patterns in the Caves
	5. Other Cave Complexes besides the Mogao Caves
Lecture 17 Dunhuang and Manuscript Studies
	1. Paper and Layout
	2. Dating Based on Calligraphy
	3. Relationship between the Manuscripts’ Recto and Verso
Lecture 18 Forgeries and the Authentication of Dunhuang Manuscripts
	1. A New Theory of Forgeries
	2. The Authentication of Dunhuang Manuscripts
		a) Must Be Familiar with the History of the Late Qing and Early Republican Periods and the Lives of the Persons Involved
		b) Must Study the History of Collections
	3. Must Study the Format of Manuscripts
Epilogue
Bibliography
Postscript
Index