The Dunhuang History of the Cycle of Birth and Death in the Mongolian Manuscript Kanjur

Alekseev, Kirill (2025) The Dunhuang History of the Cycle of Birth and Death in the Mongolian Manuscript Kanjur. ACTA ORIENTALIA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARUM HUNGARICAE, 78 (2). pp. 177-187. ISSN 0001-6446

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Abstract

The article brings into focus the Mongolian version of the Tibetan History of the Cycle of Birth and Death . The History represents an early stage of propagation of Tibetan Buddhism and has survived to the present day as nine Dunhuang manuscript fragments. Seemingly, no later copies of the Tibetan text are available for the study. The translation of the History was included in the Mongolian manuscript Kanjur compiled in 1629. It was based on a Tibetan version of the text that differed from the Dunhuang fragments and was circulating in the seventeenth century Mongolian cultural realm as an authoritative text.

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