Tyomkin E. [Review:] L. S. Savitskiï. A Description of the Tibetan Dunhuang Scrolls in the Manuscript Collection of the lnstitute of Oriental Studies the USSR Academy of Sciences). Moscow: Nauka Publishing House 1991. – 128 ill. // Manuscripta Orientalia. Vol. 1, No 2, October 1995. P. 62.
The book by L. S. Savitsky was edited as late as 1991 and
at the time of publication at least did not attract a special
attention of scholars because of the well known texts. represented
in these Dunhuang manuscripts. It deals with
202 scrolls of the “Aparimitāyuḥ-sūtra"' and 10 small
scrolls of the Dunhuang version of the “Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya-
sūtra”. Both sūtras are well presented in the manuscript
collections of France, Japan and, especially, England.
As the samples of manuscripts, successfully produced
in Dunhuang in the first millennium A.D., they are, no
doubts, unique, and Savitsky did an excellent job producing
from the standpoint of codicology elaborately detailed
volume...
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