瓜州東千佛洞泥壽桃洞西夏文兩件印本殘頁考釋=A Study on Two Fragmental Manuscript Prints in Tangut Script from the Mud-Peach Cave at the Eastern Thousand-Buddha Grottoes in Guazhou
The book Guazhou Museum contains the plates of two Tangut manuscripts(No. 1 and No. 2),which were unearthed from the Mud-Peach Cave at the Eastern Thousand-Buddha Grottoes in Guazhou,Gansu Province, and which are not recorded in the Tangut Documents Collected in China(Gansu Volume). By translating and interpreting the Tangut texts of the two manuscripts, this paper considers that No. 1 in butterflyfold binding is a printed version of chapter eleven and chapter twelve of the Diamond Sutra based on Kumarajiva’s Chinese version, while No. 2 was a fragment of the first page of The Repentance Technique. This indicates the popularity of the Diamond Sutra and reveals the philosophy of repentance techniques in Guazhou during the Western Xia dynasty.
