The
international congress on Turfan and Tun-huang: the Texts. Encounter of
Civilizations on the Silk Route, organized in 1990 by the Fondazione
Giorgio Cini (Istituto «Venezia e l’Oriente») in collaboration with the
Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente and the Istituto
Universitario Orientale of Naples, represents the first of a series of
international conferences devoted to different aspects of the various
civilizations whose meeting places were the two caravan cities of
Turfan and Tun-huang.

CONTENTS

Foreword

Inaugural addresses

Introduction

Luciano Petech, The Silk Road, Turfan and Tun-huang in the First Millennium A.D.

Janos Harmatta, Origin of the Name Tun-huang

Peter Zieme, Probleme alttürkischer Vajracchedika-Übersetzungen

Nicholas Sims-Williams, Sogdian and Turkish Christians in the Turfan and Tun-huang Manuscripts

Werner Sundermann, Iranian Manichaean Turfan Texts Concerning the Turfan Region

Margaret I. Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya, The Leningrad Collection of the Sakish Business Documents and the Problem of the Investigation of Central Asian Texts

James Hamilton, Étude nouvelle de la lettre Pelliot Ouigour 16 bis d’un Bouddhiste d’époque mongole

Géza Uray, The Structure and Genesis of the Old Tibetan Chronicle of Dunhuang

Ronald E. Emmerick, The Dunhuang MS. Ch 00120: its Importance for Reconstructing the Phonological System of Khotanese

Victor H. Mair, Chinese Popular Literature from Tunhuang: The State of the Field (1980-1990)

Résolution finale

Participants

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