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IOL Tib J 628

Record Id:
040-003688431
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003652467
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100105881045.0x00000e
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IOL Tib J 628
Title:
Tibetan manuscript
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
International Dunhuang Project
Stein Collection
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-003652467
040-003688431
Is part of:
IOL Tib J : Tibetan manuscripts from the Stein Collection.

 

IOL Tib J 628 : Tibetan manuscript
Hierarchy:
032-003652467[0671]/040-003688431
Container:
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Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
17 folios/panels
Digitised Content:
https://idp.bl.uk/collection/A88E2CA73B654F508A01B5BF7DE39CD6
Thumbnail:
Languages:
Tibetan
Scripts:
Tibetan
Start Date:
0750
End Date:
1000
Date Range:
0750-1000
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Burkhard Quessel
Sam van Schaik
Ulrich Pagel
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International Dunhuang Project

Stein Collection

IOL Tib J 628

Tibetan manuscript

Contents

Tibetan manuscript from Dunhuang

Language(s): Tibetan

Author:
Title: byang cub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa/
Title: (Bodhisattva-caryāvatāra)
Title: bO d+hi sad twa tsa rya ma ba tA ra/

Ch. 73. VII. 6, 03. 7 (fol. 22), XXVII. S (damaged folio), Pothī; 48.3 c. x 11.5 c. and 43 c. x 11.5 c (foll. 17 and 22): foll. 22, numbered ka 1-22 and one badly damaged (left half missing) = 23; ll. 8: dbu-can.

Incomplete at the end. The same text as 629.

Begins with the preliminary stanzas of the Mūla-madhyamaka (see Madhyamaka-vṛtti, p. 11).

Next follows:

‘sangs rgyas rnams dang byang cub sems dpa' dag/
/sems can ma lus gnod pa sel mdzad cing/
/bde ba rnam mang sna tshogs sgrub mdzad pa/
/de dag spyod dang bcas la gus phyag 'tshal/ ’

‘'Homage to the Buddhas and to the Bodhisattvas who remove the trouble of all beings and promote every kind of happiness; homage to them and to their practice.' ’

Chap. 1 ends fol. 2a, l. 8.

Fol. 4b ends the chap. 2 of Minaev's edition, not numbered as a chapter in this recension.

Chap. 2. Ends fol. 5b (Minaev 2 and 3), Bodhi-citta-parigraha .

3. Ends fol. 7b (Minaev 4), Nairātmya-nirdeśa , ( bdag myed pa bstand pa ), whereas Minaev has Bodhi-cittāpramāda.

4. Ends fol. 10b (Minaev 5), Samprajanya-rakṣaṇa .

5. Ends fol. 14b (Minaev 6), Kṣānti .

6. Ends fol 17b (Minaev 7), Vīrya .

7. Ends fol. 19b (Minaev 8), Dhyāna : 60 stanzas, Minaev 183; stanza 1 in this recension = Minaev 4.

8. Ends fol. 22a (Minaev 9), Prajñā .

9. Incomplete. Begins as Minaev, with variants. Stanza 3 differs considerably:

‘/de dag sangs rgyas bde thob kyi/
/bar du bde ba nyams ma 'gyurd/
/'gro ba bla na myed pa yi/
/bde ba rgyud myi 'chad 'thob shog/ ’

The work has khaṇḍa divisions; the second ends fol. 13a.

Explicit:
Colophon:

References

Physical Description

similar handwriting to IOL Tib J 629(??)
Form: pothi
Material: paper
Support: manuscript, ink on paper

Paper Layers: 1/2

Laid lines (min): 12

Laid lines (max): 14

Chain lines intervals: 6

Chain lines pattern: 8

Materials: manuscript, ink on paper

Extent: 17 folios/panels
Dimensions (leaf): 11.5 × 48.3 cm.
Foliation:

Pagination type: prefixed letter & numerals

Layout

Columns:1

String holes: 2 central with black circle

Margins and Guidelines: black, scratched/black, no

Columns per panel/lines per page: 8

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 0750-1000

DHMG.(Dunhuang Mogao) DHMG.17.

Provenance and Acquisition

Stein 1906-8

Created from IDP database, msContents from TEI (P4) records of Great Britain, India Office, Library, Louis de La Vallée Poussin, and Kazuo Enoki: Catalogue of the Tibetan Manuscripts from Tun-Huang in the India Office Library,. Oxford: Published for the Commonwealth Relations Office [by] Oxford University Press, 1962.

Record created by Ulrich Pagel 01/01/97

Modified by Sam van Schaik 01/03/16

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