Annotation and Research of Tibetan Manuscript No.1056,Prayer Rites of the Bon Religion,from the Dunhuang Documents Held in Gansu Provincial Museum
A Tibetan manuscript from the Dunhuang documents,numbered 1056 in the Gansu Provincial Museum,has been dated to the Tibetan occupation period of Dunhuang history.The text of the manuscript contains many grammatical features from before the Tibetan language was regularized,while its contents are mainly an offering of prayer for the people and the regime of Tibet.Both the rites and deities mentioned in the prayer are from the primitive Bon religion,for which reason this document has been entitled Prayer Rites of the Bon Religion.Many high-ranking officials and government employees of the Tibetan regime who were either believers in,or supporters of,the Bon religion served in the Dunhuang,Hexi or Longyou regions following the Tibetan conquest,which explains the presence of Bon scriptures in the Dunhuang Library Cave.The complete annotation and publication of this manuscript will provide new and valuable material for the in-depth study of the history of the Bon religion,and of the influence it exerted in Dunhuang and other regions.
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