Among the Chinese manuscripts of the Tunhuang collection of S. Th. Oldenburg preserved in the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences there are two fragments (No. Дх-970 and Дх-6116) which fit together, being a part of one scroll. The scroll contains 12
short stories about wonderful events, which happens to the following persons: T'ien Chen, Ts'ao Ê, Hsün Lun, Ling Che, Wei K'o, Wu Tzu-hsu, Han Hsin, Mother Chai, Yang Pao, Sun Chung, Yang Kung, Mao Pao…
The 15th Conference “Travels to the East - 2023” will be held at the IOM RAS on March 27, 2024. The event is organized by the Department of Central Asian and South Asian Studies and the Department of Far Eastern Studies.