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kingdom (pp. 1-28) and volume three a bibliography of Hsi-hsia translations of Buddhist texts (pp. 1-59). A catalogue of Tangut manuscripts and blockprints in the Institute of the Peoples of Asia in Leningrad was published in 1963: Tangu tskie rukopisi i ksilografy. Spisok otoždestvlennyx i opredelennyx tangutskix rukopisej i ksilografov kollekcii Instituta Narodov Azii AN SSSR, Moskva, 1963, 171 pp. See further Luc Kwanten and Susan Hesse, Tangut (Hsi Hsia) Studies: a Bibliography (Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Series, vol. 137), Bloomington, 1980; E. I. Kychanov, 'From the history of the Tangut translation of the Buddhist canon', Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, vol. 1 (Budapest, 1984), pp. 377-387. Not mentioned is the first edition of the Pāli canon in Thai writing published in 39 volumes in 1894–1895 (for a list of titles see C. R. Lanman, JAOS, Proc. April 1895, p. ccxliv). For the Pāli canon in Burma see also W. B. Bollée, 'Some less known Burmese Pāli texts', Pratidānam (The Hague, 1969), pp. 493-499 and his review of M. H. Bode, The Pali Literature of Burma (London, 1966), IIJ 11 (1968-9), pp. 311-318; Oskar von Hinüber, Notes on the Pāli Tradition in Burma, NAWG, 1. Phil.-hist. Klasse, Jahrgang 1983, Nr. 3. For the Pāli canon in Thailand see Oskar von Hinüber, 'Pāli manuscripts of canonical texts from North Thailand - a preliminary report', Journal of the Siam Society 71 (1983), pp. 75-88.
NOTES
1 Pelliot's book is listed (see No. 338) but Demiéville's contribution is not mentioned.: 2 See also No. 372.
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| SR No. | 269677 |
| Book Title | Book Reviews |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | J W De Jong |
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