The Tangut Dharanis Collection in Siddham Script from the IOM, RAS. Part II

Abstract

The article completes the introduction into scientific circulation of two Tangut xylographs, containing Dharanis Collections, from the manuscript collection of the IOM RAS. The Dharani text (SI 6564) is a reverse reconstruction of the “Sanskrit original” from the Chinese phonetic transcription. This publication contains the xylograph facsimile and the text transliteration. The discrepancy between the text of the Tangut xylograph SI 6564 and the well-known Sanskrit texts, as well as the Chinese versions of the spells contained in the Chinese Buddhist canon, is indicated.