Liu Hongliang. Tulufan xinchu Moni jiao wenxian yanjiu. Beijing, Wenwu chubanshe [Cultural Relics Publishing House], 2000 [in Chinese]. [Studies in the Manichaean texts recently recovered at Turfan

Abstract

During the early 1980s a number of important manuscripts were discovered at Bezeklik near Turfan, the most remarkable being three long Manichaean Sogdian letters (A, B and C : 135, 79 and 29 lines respectively). The fine miniature with which the first letter is adorned has already become well known as a result of its publication in Wenwu 1985, N° 8, colour plate facing p. 16, but the texts themselves, which are written in extremely difficult late Sogdian script and language, have not previous...