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A study of the Old Tibetan contracts.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A study of the Old Tibetan contracts./
Author:	Takeuchi, Tsuguhito.
Description:	1 online resource (371 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 56-02, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International56-02A.
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9418843click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798209058267

A study of the Old Tibetan contracts.
Takeuchi, Tsuguhito.

A study of the Old Tibetan contracts. - 1 online resource (371 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 56-02, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 1994.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation is the first extended study of the Old Tibetan contracts unearthed in Dun-huang and East Turkestan beginning in the early part of this century. The contracts, which contain historical material of primary importance, also provide us with valuable data for our linguistic and philological knowledge of Old Tibetan and its literary relations with other languages used in the same general area. Many statements of uncertain value have been made about the early medieval culture of this region based on little-studied, poorly understood, largely undated manuscripts. The basic research problem, therefore, has been to discover how these texts should be dated, and to explicate and edit them so that the data they contain may be used in historical and philological work. This study examines all extant Old Tibetan contracts, including many previously unknown and unstudied, and discusses their formulaic, chronological, linguistic, and paleographical features. Special attention is paid to: classifying the contracts in terms of the formulae they employ; dating the texts; examining influences from the formulae of other early medieval Central Asian languages, namely Chinese, Uighur, Sogdian, Khotanese, and Tokharian; and explicating the linguistic and paleographical features of the variety of Old Tibetan found in the dated texts. The manuscripts were examined personally in collections in Paris, London, Stockholm, Sankt Petersburg, Berlin, and Kyoto. The dissertation includes a critical edition and full annotated translation of the major Old Tibetan contracts (sale contracts, loan contracts, and hire contracts). The primary results of this research, in addition to editions and annotated translations of the contracts themselves, include demonstration that the Old Tibetan contract formulae were invented through contact with the Chinese contract formulae; that the contracts all appear to be dated to the first half of the ninth century; and that the Tibetan contracts were drafted mostly for non-Tibetan local inhabitants in Tibetan-ruled Hexi and East Turkestan. The Old Tibetan contracts are thus the outcome of and witnesses to the multilingual and multiethnic social milieux in Central Eurasia.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798209058267Subjects--Topical Terms:

524476
Linguistics.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

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