Old Tibetan Documents Online

Old Tibetan Documents Online (OTDO) is a corpus of selected Old Tibetan texts (VIIth to XIIth centuries): Dunhuang manuscripts, Inscriptions and related materials. We provide critically edited texts together with search and KeyWord In Context (KWIC) facilities.

Monograph Series Vol.III is JUST PUBLISHED!

Yoshiro IMAEDA, Matthew T. KAPSTEIN and Tsuguhito TAKEUCHI, Old Tibetan Documents Online Monograph Series Vol. III, NEW STUDIES OF THE OLD TIBETAN DOCUMENTS: PHILOLOGY, HISTORY AND RELIGION

Preface: Matthew T. Kapstein, Yoshiro Imaeda and Tsuguhito Takeuchi
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Philology and Linguistics

Nathan W. Hill: The Allative, Locative, and Terminative Cases (la-don) in the Old Tibetan Annals
Yoshiro Imaeda: Towards a Comprehensive and Unambiguous Transliteration Scheme of Tibetan
Sam van Schaik: A New Look at the Tibetan Invention of Writing
Bettina Zeisler: For Love of the Word: a New Translation of Pelliot tibétain 1287, the Old Tibetan Chronicle, Chapter I

Historical Studies

Takatoshi Akagi: Six 10th Century Royal Seals of the Khotan Kingdom
Brandon Dotson: Sources for the Old Tibetan Chronicle: a Fragment from the Non-Extant Chronicle Pothi
Kazushi Iwao: A Newly Identified Fragment of the Tibetan Royal Annals in St. Petersburg
Akihiro Sakajiri: A Tibetan Register of Grain Delivery in Dunhuang in the Period Following Tibetan Domination: Pelliot tibétain 1097

Religion and Divination

Cathy Cantwell & Robert Mayer: The Dunhuang ’Phags pa thabs kyi zhags pa padma ’phreng gi don bsdus pa’i ’grel pa’ Manuscript: a Source for Understanding the Transmission of Mahāyoga in Tibet. A Progress Report
Jacob P. Dalton: Mahāyoga Ritual Interests at Dunhuang: A Translation and Study of the Codex IOL Tib J 437/Pelliot tibétain 324
Ai Nishida: An old Tibetan Divination with Coins: IOL Tib J 742

List of Editors and Contributors
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Introduction

The social and cultural history of the Tibetan Empire (c.600 – c.850), Tibetan activities in Central Asia, and the development of Buddhist and non-Buddhist religious traditions are some of the main topics elucidated by Old Tibetan documents. These documents constitute a large corpus of Tibetan writing dating from the VIIth to XIIth centuries. Included in this corpus are inscriptions from all over the Tibetan plateau, paper documents from Dunhuang, and wooden and paper documents from Tibetan imperial outposts in Central Asia such as Mīrān and Mazār Tāgh.

In order to make these documents widely and freely available, the editors have transliterated selected texts and published these on the OTDO website. For each transliteration, the text has been closely read by at least two pairs of eyes, either by our editors who have consulted the documents in person, or with recourse to high-quality images. The editors have favored famous texts such as the Old Tibetan Annals and the Old Tibetan Chronicle, and the selections also mirror the principal areas of research into Old Tibetan documents: divination, law, letters, contracts, and religious texts of both Buddhist and non-Buddhist varieties. This corpus is expanding, and we aim to increase both our depth and breadth of coverage.

Each individual text can be searched using the KeyWord In Context (KWIC) search engine. One can also use the search to find a given term or terms in context by searching the entire corpus. This makes it a crucial tool for lexical, linguistic, and textual research, and an excellent resource for determining the meanings of words not found in dictionaries.

In addition to our website, OTDO also publishes a monograph series in cooperation with the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA). It is our hope that OTDO will continue to grow and contribute to lexical,linguistic, and textual research, both through the website and through the OTDO monograph series.

History

Under Construction

	OTDO was conducted under the GICAS project sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology under its Grant-in-Aid for COE Research Program.
Grammatological Informatics based on Corpora of Asian Scripts

About Us

Staff


Coordinator	HOSHI Izumi	ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Editor-in-Chief	TAKEUCHI Tsuguhito	Kobe City University of Foreign Studies
Editors	DOTSON, Brandon	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
	HILL, Nathan	The School of Oriental and African Studies, London
	IMAEDA Yoshiro	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
	ISHIKAWA Iwao	The Eastern Institute, Tokyo
	IWAO Kazushi	Kobe City University of Foreign Studies
	NISHIDA Ai	Kobe City University of Foreign Studies
	OHARA Yoshimichi	Kobe Gakuin University
	VAN SCHAIK, Sam	The British Library

Related Organizations

	Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA)
	Kobe City University of Foreign Studies
	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) -- UMR8155
	The International Dunhuang Project (IDP)

Publications

Monograph Series vol.3 ^NEW! : Yoshiro IMAEDA, Matthew T. KAPSTEIN and Tsuguhito TAKEUCHI, Old Tibetan Documents Online Monograph Series Vol. III, NEW STUDIES OF THE OLD TIBETAN DOCUMENTS: PHILOLOGY, HISTORY AND RELIGION, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, 2011.

Monograph Series vol.2 : Kazushi IWAO, Nathan HILL and Tsuguhito TAKEUCHI, Old Tibetan Documents Online Monograph Series Vol. II, OLD TIBETAN INSCRIPTIONS, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, 2009.

Monograph Series vol.1 : Yoshiro IMAEDA, Tsuguhito TAKEUCHI, Izumi HOSHI, Yoshimichi OHARA, Iwao ISHIKAWA, Kazushi IWAO, Ai NISHIDA, Brandon DOTSON, Old Tibetan Documents Online Monograph Series Vol. I, TIBETAN DOCUMENTS FROM DUNHUANG, KEPT AT THE BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE DE FRANCE AND THE BRITISH LIBRARY, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, 2007.

Choix IV : Yoshiro Imaeda, Tsuguhito Takeuchi, Izumi Hoshi, Yoshimichi Ohara and Iwao Ishikawa, Choix de documents tibétains conservés à la Bibliothèque nationale, Tome IV, Corpus syllabique, ILCAA, Université des Langues Étrangères de Tokyo, Tokyo, 2001.

Choix III : Yoshiro Imaeda and Tsuguhito Takeuchi, Choix de documents tibétains conservés à la Bibliothèque nationale, Tome III, Corpus syllabique, Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, 1990.

Contact

mail address: otdo.office(at)gmail.com
postal address : OTDO Office, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Fuchu-shi Asahi-cho 3-11-1, Tokyo, 183-8534, Japan

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