A Preliminary Study on the Tibetan Buddhist Text of Инв.№ 7578 in Cursive Tangut Script in Russian Collection
The newly published document Инв.№7578 is a Tibetan Buddhist manuscript written in cursive Tangut script that consists of eleven smaller texts.This paper focuses on three of them,namely the first,second and eighth texts.The first records a description of a Manñjuśrī mandala that was originally passed down orally.Analysis of the text has successfully verified both the Tangut name of the Indian figure Mahasiddha Līlavajra,and identified what is likely the earliest image of Mannjusri'sgsangldan rigs bsdus(文殊具密摄部族wen shuju mi she buzu).The second text is a copy of (A)rya-manñjuśrī-nāma-sa(m)gīti written in Tangut that is quite different from previously discovered Tangut versions of the document in terms of structure and lexical style,though it is quite similar to Tibetan versions found at Dunhuang.From this it can be concluded that at least two different versions of (A)rya-manñjuśrī-nāma-samgīti were in circulation during the Western Xia dynasty.Finally,the eighth text is a mandala(dkyil-vkhor)of Cakrasamvara,which marks the first time that this theme has been recorded in Tangut language documents.This final detail could be useful for the dating of Mogao Cave 465.
Tangutcursive scriptmandala of Manñjuśrī gsang ldan rigs bsdus(A)rya-manñjuśrī-nāma-sa(m)gītimandala(dkyil-vkhor)of Cakrasamvara
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