Popova I. Tang Political Treatise from Dunhuang: “Heavenly Instructions” (Tian xun) // Studies in Chinese Manuscripts from the Warring States Period to the 20th Century. Ed. by Imre Galambos. Budapest: Institute of East Asian Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, 2013. P. 59-79. (Buddhist Monographs Asian Series, Series Editor Imre Hamar.)
In 1937, the eminent Chinese scholar Wang Zhongmin 王重民 (1903-1975) found in the Pelliot Collection of the Bibliothèque nationale de France an untitled fragment of a Chinese work bearing the pressmark P.5523. He tentively identified the work as the family admonition of the Tang Emperor Gaozong 高宗 (650-683) entitled “Heavenly Instructions” (Tian xun 天訓) that had long been considered lost...
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