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Pt_0016 Prayers for the foundation of the De ga yu tshal monastery.
Pt_0037 Booklet containing six texts including Dug gsum 'dul ba 'Overcoming the Three Poisons' (1r01-3v06), Lha yul du lam bstan pa 'Account of the way (which leads) to the country of the gods' (8v04-17r03), and 'Phrul kyi byig shus phyi ma la bstan pa'i mdo (23r01-23v03).
Pt_0126 1. 'Phrul kyi byig shus phyi ma la bstan pa'i mdo (ll. 1-103). 2. A dialogue between the ruler of Dmu and an envoy of Phyva, two important clans in the ancient religion (ll. 104-168).
Pt_0149 The narrative of the first teaching of the Āryabhadracaryāpraṇidhānarāja.
Pt_0239 Recto, Bsngo ba, 'Substitution (of Buddhist funeral rites for indigenous ones)'. Verso, Lha yul du lam bstan pa, 'Account of the way (which leads) to the country of the gods'.
Pt_0366 Recto, Lha yul du lam bstan pa, 'Account of the way (which leads) to the country of the gods'. Verso, Skye shi'i 'khor lo, 'The history of the cycle of birth and death'.
Pt_0367 Recto, Skye shi'i 'khor lo, 'The history of the cycle of birth and death'. Verso, Lha yul du lam bstan pa, 'Account of the way (which leads) to the country of the gods'.
Pt_0981 Recto, Tibetan version of Rāmāyana. Verso, writing exercise of letters.
Pt_0982 Tibetan version of Rāmāyana, or writing exercise of a letter.
Pt_0983 Tibetan version of Rāmāyana.
Pt_0986 Shangshu paraphrase.
Pt_0999 Permission to take out copies of sūtra from the library of the Longxing 龍興 temple for offering to the dharma.
Pt_1003 Draft of a letter.
Pt_1038 Origin and genealogy of Btsan po.
Pt_1039 Funeral rituals.
Pt_1040 Funeral rituals.
Pt_1042 Royal funeral rituals.
Pt_1043 Divination with dice.
Pt_1046B Divination with dice.
Pt_1047 Divination.
Pt_1051 Divination probably with dice.
Pt_1052 Divination with dice.
Pt_1055 Divination with coins.
Pt_1056 Divination with coins.
Pt_1060 Divination concerning horses, containing a 'Catalogue of the ancient principalities'.
Pt_1067 Text containing passages parallel to the 'Catalogue of the ancient principalities' (cf. Pelliot tibétain 1290).
Pt_1068 Animal sacrifice during the funeral rituals.
Pt_1071 Law of hunting.
Pt_1072 Law of hunting.
Pt_1073 Law of indemnities for dog-bite.
Pt_1075 Law of theft.
Pt_1078 A contract for the borrowing of paper.
Pt_1078bis Judgment on a case of land disputes between two Chinese families in Dunhuang.
Pt_1082 Official letter from the Uighur khagan to the ruler of Guiyi jun 歸義軍.
Pt_1083 Official dispatch forbidding abductions of Chinese women and children in Dunhuang by Tibetan officials.
Pt_1084 Judicial document regarding trouble over a cattle trade.
Pt_1085 Official dispatch forbidding excessive levies by Tibetans in Dunhuang.
Pt_1086 A receipt for payment for a house and land.
Pt_1087 Promissory letter to attend an assembly (for judgment).
Pt_1088_1 Draft of a contract for the sale of a cow.
Pt_1088_2 Draft of a contract for the borrowing of wheat.
Pt_1089 Official dispatch regarding the conflict between the Tibetan officials and the Chinese local officials in Dunhuang.
Pt_1090
Pt_1092 Private letter from Meng Phug wen to Shi shug and Shug shug.
Pt_1094 Contract for the sale of an ox.
Pt_1095 A contract for the sale of an ox.
Pt_1096 Judicial document regarding a missing horse.
Pt_1098 A contract for a man hiring another to do his corvée duty of transporting the annual grain tribute for him.
Pt_1101 A ledger for the loaning of grain by a Tibetan official.
Pt_1104 A ledger for the loaning of grain by a temple.
Pt_1111 Accounts of two granaries in Dunhuang.
Pt_1115 A contract for the borrowing of grain seeds.
Pt_1119 A ledger for the loaning of grain by a temple.
Pt_1120 Recto, text regarding a levy of tribute (dpya'). Verso, letter draft during the period of Guiyi jun 歸義軍.
Pt_1134 Funeral rituals.
Pt_1136 Animal (horse) sacrifice during the funeral rituals.
Pt_1144 Fragment of the Old Tibetan Chronicle.
Pt_1162 A contract for a man hiring another to do his corvée duty as a conveyer.
Pt_1166 A contract for the borrowing of a knife.
Pt_1182
Pt_1194 Animal (sheep) sacrifice during the funeral rituals.
Pt_1203 A ledger for the loaning of grain by a temple.
Pt_1208 Ledgers for loaning wheat.
Pt_1217 Official dispatch regarding the awards to Ta rig bra sha.
Pt_1221 Ledgers for loaning wheat.
Pt_1225 Writing exercise of a letter.
Pt_1283 1. A dialogue between two brothers (ll. 1-532). 2. Report of the mission consisting of five Uighur envoys sent to the North Asia (ll. 533-642).
Pt_1285 Story of Bon and Gshen competing in their ability to cure diseases.
Pt_1286 Catalogue of the ancient principalities and a list of the Royal genealogy.
Pt_1287 Old Tibetan Chronicle.
Pt_1288 Old Tibetan Annals (version I).
Pt_1289 Animal (mdzo mo) sacrifice during the funeral rituals.
Pt_1290 Catalogue of the ancient principalities.
Pt_1297_1 Contract for the borrowing of grain seeds.
Pt_1297_2 Judicial document regarding an injury case.
Pt_1297_3 Contract for the sale of a horse.
Pt_1297_4 Contract for hiring a man to reap the harvest of a barley field.
Pt_1297_5 Contract for the borrowing of a mare.
Pt_1297_6 Two contracts for the loaning of beans.
Pt_2124 A ledger for the loaning of grain by a temple.
Pt_2125 A ledger for the loaning of grain by a temple.
Pt_2127 A contract for the borrowing of cotton.
Pt_2204c Report of the confiscation of the provisions from the rebels.
Pt_2220 Receipt for payment for a house.
ITJ_0151 Recto, Skye shi'i 'khor lo ’The history of the cycle of birth and death'. Verso, Lha yul du lam bstan pa 'Account of the way (which leads) to the country of the gods'.
ITJ_0474 A divination method according to the Twelve Nidānas.
ITJ_0489 Fragmentary anti-bon polemic.
ITJ_0493 Recto, Bsngo ba, 'Substitution (of Buddhist funeral rites for indigenous ones)'. Verso, blank.
ITJ_0504 Recto, Bsngo ba, 'Substitution (of Buddhist funeral rites for indigenous ones)'. Verso, a fragment of Buddhist teaching on old age, sickness and death, addressed to a great king.
ITJ_0562 Fragmentary anti-bon polemic.
ITJ_0730 Proverbs of the Sum pa people entitled the 'Sum pa mother's sayings'.
ITJ_0731 Recto, end of the Good Age and tragedy of the horse and yak. Verso, Funeral of Father Sten-rgan-nyer-pa and Story of Gyim po nyag cig's Bride.
ITJ_0732 The Story of Gyim po nyag cig's Bride.
ITJ_0733 The Decline of the Good Age.
ITJ_0734 The age of decline.
ITJ_0735 The Decline of the Good Age.
ITJ_0737-1 Tibetan version of Rāmāyana .
ITJ_0737-2 Tibetan version of Rāmāyana and writing exercise of letters.
ITJ_0737-3 Tibetan version of Rāmāyana.
ITJ_0738 Divination with dice.
ITJ_0739 Divination with dice with an introductory note.
ITJ_0740 Divination with dice and a colophon.
ITJ_0742 Divination with coins.
ITJ_0744 Divination with coins.
ITJ_0747 Recto, divination from the sounds of the crow. Verso, draft of a letter.
ITJ_0750 Old Tibetan Annals (version I).
ITJ_0751 Prayers for the foundation of the De ga yu tshal monastery.
ITJ_0753 Law of theft.
ITJ_0844 Receipt for the repayment of loaned wheat.
ITJ_0850 A contract for the borrowing of household utensils.
ITJ_0857B Contract for the sale of a cow.
ITJ_0897 Letter from Lha 'brug brtsan to blon Gtsug bzher and blon Legs sgra on the borrowing of grain.
ITJ_0914 Receipt for the repayment of loaned wheat.
ITJ_0990 Recto, Anti-bon polemic. Verso, Blank.
ITJ_1018 A contract for the borrowing of barley.
ITJ_1126 Official dispatch regarding the deficiency of grain in a granary in Dunhuang.
ITJ_1274 A contract for the borrowing of paper and a piece of cloth, and letter drafts.
ITJ_1368 Annals of the 'A zha principality.
ITJ_1374 Contract for the sale of a woman.
ITJ_1375 Old Tibetan Chronicle.
ITJ_1379 Receipt for the repayment of loaned wheat.
ITJ_1383 Official dispatch (fragment).
ITJ_1459 Official dispatch (fragment).
Or_15000_0001 Document, letter type 3
Or_15000_0003 Document, letter type 3?
Or_15000_0006 Document, military, concerning watchmen.
Or_15000_0007 Document, letter type 3?
Or_15000_0008 Document, letter type 3
Or_15000_0009 Document, list of watchmen.
Or_15000_0010 Document, list of watchmen.
Or_15000_0011 Document, list of watchmen.
Or_15000_0015 Document, letter type 3
Or_15000_0018 document, letter type 3
Or_15000_0020 Document, letter type 3
Or_15000_0021 Document, letter type 3
Or_15000_0022 Document, letter type 3
Or_15000_0025 Document, letter type 3
Or_15000_0027 Document, letter type 3
Or_15000_0028 Recto, the left half of a sale contract. Verso, the right half of a military document. Many personal names and place names in the Khotan area are listed.
Or_15000_0029 Document, letter type 3
Or_15000_0030 Document, letter type 3
Or_15000_0031 A contract for the borrowing of dmar(?).
Or_15000_0032 Document, letter type 3
Or_15000_0033 Document, letter type 3
Or_15000_0035 Document, letter type 3, decree
Or_15000_0036 Document, letter type 3
Or_15000_0037 Document, letter type 3
Or_15000_0038 Document, letter type 3
Or_15000_0039 Document, letter type 3
Or_15000_0040 Document, letter type 2?
Or_15000_0041 Document, letter type 3
Or_15000_0045 Document, letter type 3
Or_15000_0062 Document, list of watchmen; table of Tibetan alphabets.
Or_15000_0067 Divination with dice.
Or_15000_0072 Document, list of watchmen.
Or_15000_0076 Buddhist text and divination with dice.
Or_15000_0094 Document, economic?
Or_15000_0102 Document, list of watchmen.
Or_15000_0111 Contract?
Or_15000_0120 Document, letter type 3; contract?
Or_15000_0121 A loan contract?
Or_15000_0122 Document, military.
Or_15000_0123 Document, contract.
Or_15000_0126 Document, letter type 2.
Or_15000_0137 Document, contract or legal document?
Or_15000_0138 A contract for the sale of a horse (?).
Or_15000_0153 Document, contract.
Or_15000_0155 Document, contract?
Or_15000_0158 Document, contract?
Or_15000_0160 Document, contract; Khotanese on verso.
Or_15000_0167 Document, contract?
Or_15000_0183 Document, letter type 3; list of watchmen.
Or_15000_0184 Document, letter type 2.
Or_15000_0188 Document, letter type 3 or 2.
Or_15000_0193 Document, contract?
Or_15000_0194 Document, contract?
Or_15000_0198 Document, letter type 2.
Or_15000_0200 Document,military?
Or_15000_0204 Document, economic, concerning grain.
Or_15000_0214 Document, list of watchmen.
Or_15000_0220 Document, letter type 2.
Or_15000_0229 Document, contract.
Or_15000_0235 Document concerning provisions.
Or_15000_0243 Document, military, list of stationing or placement of soldiers?
Or_15000_0249 A contract for the borrowing of copper coins (?).
Or_15000_0251 Document, contract?
Or_15000_0256 Recto, a contract for releasing an accused Khotanese watchman. Verso, a letter.
Or_15000_0264 Document, contract?
Or_15000_0268 Recto, a loan contract. Verso, a kind of divination?
Or_15000_0272 A loan contract and a letter.
Or_15000_0274 Document, letter type 2 ? ; legal text.
Or_15000_0276 Document, letter type 2.
Or_15000_0280 Document, letter type 2.
Or_15000_0284 Contract; letter?
Or_15000_0293 Document, letter type 2.
Or_15000_0297 Document, economic, concerning grain.
Or_15000_0298 Document, letter type 2.
Or_15000_0315 A loan contract.
Or_15000_0325 Document, letter type 2.
Or_15000_0365 Document, economic, concerning grain; letter.
Or_15000_0368 A loan contract.
Or_15000_0375 Document concerning ploughing, contract ?
Or_15000_0376 Document, contract ?
Or_15000_0387 A loan contract.
Or_15000_0390 A loan contract.
Or_15000_0397 Sale contract?
Or_15000_0398 Loan contracts.
Or_15000_0402 Document, contract.
Or_15000_0407 Document, letter?; economic, concerning grain.
Or_15000_0408 A loan contract.
Or_15000_0411 Document, letter type 2?
Or_15000_0414 Document, economic, concerning grain.
Or_15000_0416 Document, contract?
Or_15000_0417 Document, contract?
Or_15000_0418 Document, contract?
Or_15000_0420 Document, economic?
Or_15000_0423 Document, contract?
Or_15000_0426 Recto, an unidentified contract concerning yaks. Verso, a petition from a courier named Lda-ka wa-lba to rtse-rje and other officials in Little Nob.
Or_15000_0427 Recto is the right portion of a Buddhist text and a loan contract. Verso is scribbling or a draft.
Or_15000_0429 A loan contract and a hire contract.
Or_15000_0430 A loan contract.
Or_15000_0431 Nearly complete, but badly torn and smudged. Recto lists the amount of grain delivered to each person. Verso seems to be a contract for the sale of an ass.
Or_15000_0432 Recto, a loan contract. Verso, a document concerning fields (zhing dor).
Or_15000_0433 Document, economic, petition concerning grain.
Or_15000_0439 A loan contract and a letter.
Or_15000_0441 Document, letter type 2.
Or_15000_0444 A sale contract.
Or_15000_0448 A loan contract, and a document.
Or_15000_0449 Document, letter type 2, draft.
Or_15000_0462 Document, letter type 2.
Or_15000_0463 Document, letter type 2.
Or_15000_0467 Document, hire contract?; letter type3.
Or_15000_0469 Recto, a constract for the loaning of grain (?). Verso, a contract for the sale of a cow.
Or_15000_0470 A contract for the loaning of grain.
Or_15000_0471 Document, letter type 2?
Or_15000_0472 A loan contract and a document for petition.
Or_15000_0477 A loan contract and a document.
Or_15000_0478 A loan contract.
Or_15000_0479 Document, contract?
Or_15000_0481 A letter of letter type 2 and a sale contract.
Or_15000_0482 Document, petition concerning crop field?
Or_15000_0484 A loan contract.
Or_15000_0486 A loan contract.
Or_15000_0496 Document, letter type 1.
Or_15000_0512 Document, ltter type 3, contract.
Or_15000_0515 Document, economic, concerning grain; letter.
Or_15000_0516 Document, contract?
Or_15000_0517 Document concerning wage.
Or_15000_0521 Document, letter type 1.
Or_15000_0525 A contract and a ledger?
Or_15000_0530 A contract for the sale of a male bondservant.
Or_15000_0533 Document, contract?
Or_15000_0536 Document, letter type 1.
Or_15000_0540 Document, contract?
Or_8212_0187 Old Tibetan Annals (version II).
Or_8212_0194a A contract for hiring a man to plough crop fields.
Or_8212_0194b A contract for the borrowing of a piece of rag.
Or_8212_1378 Document, letter type 3.
Or_8212_1403 Document, letter type 3
Or_8212_1424 Document, letter type 3?
Or_8212_1426 Loan contract?
Or_8212_1427 Document, letter type 3.
Or_8212_1428 Document, letter type 3
Or_8212_1509 Document, letter type 3.
Or_8212_1526 Document, letter type 3.
Or_8212_1527 Document, letter type 3.
Or_8212_1528 Document, letter type 3.
Or_8212_1529 Sale contract?
Or_8212_1629 Document, hire contract?
Or_8212_1651 Document, hire contract?
Or_8212_1760 Document, letter type 3?
Or_8212_1762 Loan contract?
Or_8212_1834c Sale contract.
Or_8212_1836 Document, letter type 3
Or_8212_1837 Document, letter type 3?
Or_8212_1838 Document, letter type 3
Or_8212_1844 Document, letter type 3.
Or_8212_1847b Document, letter type 3
Or_8212_1853 Document, letter type 3
Or_8212_1865bis Document, concerning grain tribute.
Or_8212_1880 Document, list of watchmen?
Or_8212_1881 Contract.
Or_8212_1897 Document, letter type 3
Or_8212_1899 Document, letter type 3
Or_8212_1900bis Document concerning provisions.
Or_8212_1904 Document, letter type 3
Or_8212_1918 Document, hire contract?
Or_8212_1920 Document, letter type 3?
Or_8212_1924 Document, letter type 3?
S_00510 Writing exercise of a letter head.
S_00614 Writing exercise of a letter.
S_01000 Sino-Tibetan phrasebook.
S_02228 Drafts of four different contracts and a petition.
S_02736 Sino-Tibetan phrasebook.
S_03991 A divination method according to the Twelve Nidānas.
S_04474 Writing exercise of a letter.
S_05212 Sino-Tibetan phrasebook / Buddhist text, writing exercise.
S_05721 Writing exercise of a letter.
S_05790 Writing exercise of a letter.
S_07133 Contracts for the loaning of grain.
S_09323_B Letter.
S_09498_A Testament of Ba (fragment).
S_10646 Rāmāyana.
S_10647 Accounts of two granaries in Dunhuang.
S_10828 Name list of nuns.
S_12243 Fragment: Tantric text. Attached paper: treatise on funerals.
S_13683_C Testament of Ba (fragment).
insc_'Bis2 Inscription II at 'Bis khog
insc_'Phyong Inscription at the 'Phyong rgyas bridge
insc_Brag_A Inscription of Brag lha mo
insc_Brag_B Inscription of Brag lha mo
insc_Bsam The bsam yas inscription
insc_BsamBel The bell at Bsam yas
insc_Dun075 The Dunhuang cave no. 75 inscription
insc_Dun365 The Dunhuang cave no. 365 inscription
insc_EndCell Inscriptions in the temple cella of Endere
insc_EndWall Inscriptions on the eastern wall of the Hall of Endere
insc_Gtsang1 First stele at Gtsang Grong
insc_Gtsang2 Second stele at Gtsang Grong
insc_KhraBel The bell at Khra 'brug
insc_Khrilde The inscription at the tomb of Khri lde srong brtsan
insc_Khrom The Khrom chen inscription
insc_Lcangbu The Lcang bu insriptions
insc_Ldanma1 First inscription at Ldan ma brag
insc_Ldanma2 Second inscription at Ldan ma brag
insc_Ldanma3 Third inscription at Ldan ma brag
insc_Ldanma4 Fourth inscription at Ldan ma brag
insc_Lebkhog Inscription at Leb khog
insc_Lhobrag The Lho brag inscriptions
insc_Lijiang Stele found at Lijiang
insc_Puhreng Inscription of Avalokiteśvara found at Spu sreng
insc_Rkong The Rkong po Bde mo sa inscription
insc_Skar The Skar cung inscription
insc_Treaty The Sino-Tibetan treaty inscription of 821-822
insc_Yer Fragmented tablet from Yer pa
insc_YerBel The bell at Yer pa
insc_Yulin25 The Yulin cave no.25 inscription
insc_Zhol The Zhol inscription
insc_ZhvaRock Fragmentary inscription near Zhva'i lha khang
insc_Zhva_E East inscription at the Zhva'i Lha khang
insc_Zhva_W West inscriptions at Zhva'i lha khang
OZ_1 Recto, a Chinese vinaya 'discipline' text. Verso, a medical text in Old Zhangzhung language.
OZ_2 Recto, Chinese Buddha-nâma sûtra. Veros, a medical text in Old Zhangzhung language.
OZ_3 Recto, a Chinese Buddhist text. Verso, a medical text in Old Zhangzhung language.
OZ_4 Recto, a Chinese Buddhist text. Verso, a medical text written in mostly Old Zhangzhung language.
OZ_5 Recto, Chinese sutra Guang-yin-jing. Verso, a medical text in Old Zhangzhung language.