| dc.description.abstract | Shang-bo 01(2405)V《The Maha Prajna Paramita》manuscripts fragments collected in《Shanghai Museum collection Dunhuang -Turpan documents》are documents written on the reverse side of the Shang-bo 01《The Buddha Speaks of Vimalakirti V 1》manuscripts; its volume is 428.5cm × 24.5cm in total; the year and place of publishing were not written on it; we can only trace from its contents that it’s something about Sutra.
The purpose of this study is to explore the year and place of publishing of these manuscripts. According to the historical records, Kumarajiva finished the translation of《The Maha Prajna Paramita》and《Great Treatise on the Perfection of Wisdom》in later qin（405AD）.and. the Shang-bo 01《The Buddha Speaks of Vimalakirti V 1》 manuscripts were written in the period of Five Barbarians Sixteen States.later liang Lu Guang（393AD）.This study is based on the above clues, making use of historical research, Quantitative statistics as well as literature methodology and comprehensive analysis,and following the direction of：（1）the 3 sets of key word revealing from its contents,（2）the nearly 300 Variant chinese characters in the Manuscripts,（3）Calligraphy style etc, to achieve its goal. Also, this study compares《Hanzi Normative Glyphs》,《Ministry of Education－Ｄictionary of Chinese Character Variants》, network resources and unearthed ancient literature, analyzes the variant chinese characters in the ,manuscripts by Variance of stroke order, Variance of radical, Mix of radical, Variance of characters, and Variance of calligraphy style and find that most of the variant chinese characters were derived from 「Qin-Han Dynasty」. From perspective of Calligraphy style, the manuscripts are also conformable to the feature of Magistrate-calligraphy and regular-script in early Northern Dynasty. Thus this study presumes that these Manuscripts are actually precious Manuscripts in early 5th century.
Only about one thousand in the tens of thousands Dunhuang -Turpan documents can be found their year of publishing, as for the earlier documents, it’s much more difficult to find their year of publishing. This study is to do a little bit of effort to help people nowdays to know the paleography.
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