{"title":"A preliminary study on one folio of Tibetan tantric ritual text recently collected by the national library of China","authors":"Saerji","doi":"10.1080/23729988.2021.1942522","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article focuses on one folio of Tibetan tantric ritual text recently collected by the National Library of China, based on a tentative translation, discussing its peculiarities on Tibetan orthography and expression, its esoteric elements, especially its rituals of the dead and making clay tablet (tsha tsha), attempts to trace the Indian origin of the text and its influences on related Tibetan texts.","PeriodicalId":36684,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Chinese Religions","volume":"7 1","pages":"236 - 244"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Studies in Chinese Religions","FirstCategoryId":"1095","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23729988.2021.1942522","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ASIAN STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT This article focuses on one folio of Tibetan tantric ritual text recently collected by the National Library of China, based on a tentative translation, discussing its peculiarities on Tibetan orthography and expression, its esoteric elements, especially its rituals of the dead and making clay tablet (tsha tsha), attempts to trace the Indian origin of the text and its influences on related Tibetan texts.