Cultural Horizons of India
author: Musashi Tachikawa
edition: 1990, International Academy of Indian Culture and Aditya Prakashan
pages: 2743
Topic: History
In search of Buddhist manuscripts in Eastern Siberia
This chapter describes In search of Buddhist manuscripts in Eastern Siberia located on page 255 of volume Volume 1 in the book Cultural Horizons of India compiled by Musashi Tachikawa. This book comprises 50 years of research material of Lokesh Chandra and represents a thorough study of the ancient culture of India, dealing with Tantra, Buddhism, Art, Archaeology, Language and Literature in 7 volumes.
The first volume presents the evolution of ideas that emerge from a broad spectrum of quests in languages such as Sanskrit, Greek and Latin (etc.) and further presents an introduction to Indonesian history, art and linguistics.
This book covers the research articles and general surveys of Professor Lokesh Chandra. For example, this chapter describes In search of Buddhist manuscripts in Eastern Siberia. Everything together represents a huge collection of writings related to languages such as Sanskrit, Iranian, Sino-Japanese, Tibetan, Thai, Greek, Latin, Celtic, and Slavic..
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Triveni Journal
In other countries It is also known that the story of Ramayana had spread even into Tibet and that manuscripts had been found there and that from Tibet the story had spread even to Mongolia and Siberia....
Read full contents: Ramayana the World Over
Folk Tradition of Bengal (and Rabindranath Tagore) [by Joydeep Mukherjee]
Later on Sanat Kumar Mitra published “Lalon-Fakir: Kabi o Kabya” (Lalon Fakir: the Poet and Poetry) incorporating the songs from the manuscript and in 2009 Abul Ansan Chowdhury published–“Rabindranath Songrihito Laloner Ganer Pandulipi” (The Manuscripts of the Songs of Lalon Fakir Collected by Rabindranath Tagore). Shktinath Jha got to know about a book where 375 songs in a book helped Tagore shape his ideas about their language....
Read full contents: Chapter 5.4 - Tagore’s interest in Lalon Fakir’s Manuscript
Tibet (Myth, Religion and History) [by Tsewang Gyalpo Arya]
European scholars Aurel Stein and Paul Pelliot were among the first to study these manuscripts and make them known to the outside world. Bri gung skyabs mgon che tshang, in his book "Bod btsan po i rgyal rabs" has meticulously reproduced some of the original manuscripts with explanations. Among the manuscripts, P1286, P1038 and PT0126 contain substantial information about the origin of the Tibetan king and the period around that time. Let us study these three manuscripts briefly....
Read full contents: 7. Tunhuang Manuscripts and Obelisks
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