This book is a tribute to the memory of Dr. Ksenia Kepping. It contains previously published and non-pablished articles and extracts written in English and Russian, a bibliography of Dr. Kepping's works, along with records and photographs from her personal archives.
Table of Contents
Foreword [Предисловие] — 7
Part One. Papers on Tangut Studies [Часть первая. Работы по тангутоведению]
Zhuge Liang’s “The general’s garden” in the Mi-Nia translation
(in collaboration with Gong Hwang-cherng) — 13
Tangut ritual language — 25
The famous Liangzhou bilingual stele: a new study — 30
The verb in Tangut — 50
Tangut Xylographs kept in Stockholm [Тангутские ксилографы в Стокгольме] — 55
Portraits of Tibetan and Indian teachers in a Tangut engraving — 75
On the Name of the Tangut State and the Ancient Tangut Homeland [О названии тангутского государства и прародине тангутов] — 82
Mi-nia (Tangut) self-appellation and self-portraiture in
Khara-Khoto materials — 100
The Black-headed and the Red-faced in Tangut indigenous texts — 119
«The autumn wind» by Han Wu-di in the Mi-nia (Tangut) translation — 140
The ritual of receiving high status depicted in the Khitan mural
painting (Hebei province, Xuanhua district) — 168
Chinggis Khan's last campaign as seen by the Tanguts — 176
The Name of Chinggis Khan in a Tangut Song [Имя Чингис хана в тангутской песне] — 196
Chinggis Khan and the Empress [Чингисхан и императрица] — 202
The Guanyin icon (Chinggis Khan's last campaign) — 210
Bibliography Abridged [Библиография в сокращениях] — 220
Bibliography of Papers by Ks.B. Kepping [Библиография работ К. Б. Кепинг] — 226
Leo Menshikov. In Memory of Ksenia Borisovna Kepping [Меньшиков Л. Н. Памяти Ксении Борисовны Кепинг] — 231
Part Two. From the Past [Часть вторая. Из прошлого]
The Fate of the Russian Spiritual Mission in China [Судьба Российской духовной миссии в Китае] — 236
O.Kepping. The Last Head of the Russian Spiritual Mission in China, Archbishop Victor (to the 100th Anniversary of his Birth) [Кепинг О. В. Последний начальник Российской духовной миссии в Китае архиепископ Виктор (к 100-летию со дня рождения)] — 264
All Holy Martyrs Church in Beijing [Храм Всех Святых Мучеников в Бэй-гуане (Пекин)] — 273
A belated remark on а 1994 article — 284
I bought that armchair from her... [«А кресло-то я у нее купила...»] — 291
Part Three. Photos and Documents [Часть третья. Фотографии и документы]
Photos [Фотографии] — 297
Archbishop Victor (Svyatin). The Propriety of the Russian Spiritial Mission in Beijing as Stated on January 1, 1950 [Архиепископ Виктор (Святин). Имущество Российской
духовной миссии в Китае по состоянию на 1 января 1950 г.] — 314
T.A.Bogdanovam O.V.Vassilieva. The Archives of Metropolitan Victor (Svyatin) Kept at the Russian National Library [Богданова Т.А., Васильева О.В. Архив митрополита Виктора (Святина) в Российской национальной библиотеке] — 328
On February 5, 2020, at the Far Eastern Studies Seminar organized by the Department of Far Eastern Studies of the IOM RAS, G.A. Levinton will submit his presentation Notes about Far Eastern Themes in Mandelshtam's Poetry.
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