List of Tangutologists

Summary

This list of Tangutologists includes those scholars who have made notable contributions to Tangutology (the study of Tangut people, their culture, religion, history, language and writing system).

Picture Name Dates Nationality Significant contributions
Arakawa at the International Tangut Encoding Conference, Beijing, December 2013 Arakawa Shintarō
荒川慎太郎
b. 1971 Japan "Tangut Rhyme Dictionary" (1997)
Tangut-Russian-English-Chinese Dictionary (2006)
Bái Bīn
白濱[1]
1936–2022 China Study of the Sea of Characters (1983)
Researches in Tangut History (1989)
Self-portrait of Anna Bernhardi in 1891 Anna Bernhardi 1868–1944 Germany "Buddhistische Bilder aus der Glanzzeit der Tanguten" (1918)
Portrait of Bushell circa 1880–1890 Stephen Wootton Bushell 1844–1908 UK "The Hsi Hsia Dynasty of Tangut, their Money and Peculiar Script" (1895–1896)
"The Tangut script in the Nan K'ou Pass" (1899)
Gerard Clauson[2] 1891–1974 UK Skeleton Dictionary of the Hsi-Hsia Language (1938–1963, manuscript published posthumously in 2016[3])
Portrait of Gabriel Devéria circa 1886 Gabriel Devéria 1844–1899 France "L'Écriture du Royaume de Si-Hia ou Tangout" (1898)
"Stèle Si-hia de Leang-tcheou" (1898)[4]
Ruth W. Dunnell b. 1950 US "The 1094 Sino-Tangut Gantong Stupa Stele Inscription of Wuwei" (1988)
The Great State of White and High: Buddhism and State Formation in Eleventh-Century Xia (1996)
Imre Galambos at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, St. Petersburg. July 2010. Imre Galambos[5] b. 1967 Hungary "The Tangut translation of the General's Garden by Zhuge Liang" (2011)
Translating Chinese Tradition and Teaching Tangut Culture (2015)
Gong Hwang-cherng (Gōng Huángchéng)
龔煌城
1934–2010 Taiwan "The phonological reconstruction of Tangut through examination of phonological alternations" (1989)
Gong Xun at a conference in 2018 Gōng Xūn
龔勳
b. 1990 China "Uvulars and uvularization in Tangut phonology" (2020)[6]
Eric Grinstead 1921–2008 New Zealand The Tangut Tripitaka (1971)
Analysis of the Tangut Script (1972)
Han Xiaomang at the International Tangut Encoding Conference, Beijing, December 2013 Hán Xiǎománg
韓小忙[7]
b. 1963 China Dictionary of Tangut 西夏文词典 [9 vols.] (2021)
Huáng Zhènhuá
黃振華[8]
1930–2003 China Study of the Sea of Characters (1983)
Researches in Tangut History (1989)
Aleksei Ivanovich Ivanov
Алексе́й Ива́нович Ивано́в
1878–1937 Russia "Monuments de l'écriture tangout" (1920)
Guillaume Jacques at SOAS, University of London in April 2013 Guillaume Jacques b. 1979 France "The origin of vowel alternations in the Tangut verb" (2009)
"The structure of the Tangut verb" (2011)
Esquisse de phonologie et de morphologie historique du tangoute (2014)
Jia Changye at a conference in Yinchuan, August 2016 Jiǎ Chángyè
賈常業[9]
b. 1954 China Newly Compiled Dictionary of Tangut Characters (2013)
Jing Yongshi at a conference in Yinchuan, August 2016 Jǐng Yǒngshí
景永時[10]
b. 1959 China Translations of books and articles by Russian Tangutologists
Design of Tangut fonts
Ksenia Kepping at the British Library in 2001 Ksenia Borisovna Kepping
Ксе́ния Бори́совна Ке́пинг[11]
1937–2002 Russia Sea of Characters (1969)
Sunzi in Tangut translation (1979)
Morphology of the Tangut Language (1985)
"Tangut Ritual Language" (1996)
Vsevolod Sergeevich Kolokolov
Все́волод Серге́евич Ко́локолов[12]
1896–1979 Russia Chinese Classics in Tangut Translation (1966)
Sea of Characters (1969)
Luc Kwanten 1944–2021 Belgium The Timely Pearl: A 12th Century Tangut-Chinese Glossary (1982)
"The Phonological hypothesis of the Hsi Hsia [Tangut] Language," (1984)
"Special Research Problems in Hsi Hsia [Tangut] History and Linguistics" (1985)
"The Structure of the Tangut [Hsi Hsia] characters" (1989)
Kychanov in his office in 2012 Evgenij Ivanovich Kychanov
Евге́ний Ива́нович Кыча́нов[13]
1932–2013 Russia Chinese Classics in Tangut Translation (1966)
Essay on the History of the Tangut State (1968)
Sea of Characters (1969)
Tangut-Russian-English-Chinese Dictionary' (2006)
Romain Lefebvre at the Tangut workshop in Hamburg, December 2015 Romain Lefebvre[5] b. 1981 France L'imaginaire de l'autre : Étude et analyse de la réception du volume 41 de l'Avataṃsakasūtra en langue tangoute, conservé à l'Université de Pékin et à l'Institut des hautes études chinoises du Collège de France (2013)
Lǐ Fànwén
李範文[14]
b. 1932 China Study of the Homophones (1986)
Tangut-Chinese Dictionary (1997, 2008)
Lin Ying-chin at the International Tangut Encoding Conference, Beijing, December 2013 Lin Ying-chin (Lín Yīngjīn)
林英津[15]
b. 1955 Taiwan Study of the Tangut translation of "Sunzi's Art of War" (1994)
Luo Zhenyu Luó Zhènyù
羅振玉[16]
1866–1940 China Collection of Western Xia Official Seals (1927)
Luo Fucheng Luó Fúchéng
羅福成[17]
1885–1960 China Study of the Lotus Sutra in Tangut (1914)
Luo Fuchang Luó Fúcháng
羅福萇[18]
1895–1921 China Brief Explanation of the Western Xia Script (1914)
Luó Fúyí
羅福頤[19]
1905–1981 China Collected Study of Official Seals of the Western Xia (1982)
Miyake at the British Museum, February 2015 Marc Miyake[5] b. 1971 US "Sketch of Pre-Tangut" (2012)
Georges Morisse d. 1910 France "Contribution préliminaire à l'étude de l'écriture et de la langue si-hia" (1904) — study of the Tangut translation of the Saddharma Puṇḍarīka (Lotus Sutra).[20]
Nevsky with his wife and daughter, Japan 1929 Nikolai Aleksandrovich Nevsky
Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Не́вский[21]
1892–1937 Russia "A Brief Manual of the Si-Hia Characters with Tibetan Transcriptions" (1926)
Tangut Philology (1960)
Nie Hongyin at the International Tangut Encoding Conference, Beijing, December 2013 Niè Hóngyīn
聶鴻音[22]
b. 1954 China "Study of the phonetic symbols used in the Pearl in the Palm" (1987)
"Tangutology During the Past Decades" (1993)
Nishida Tatsuo in 2008 Nishida Tatsuo
西田龍雄[23]
1928–2012 Japan Study of the Hsi-Hsia Language (1964)
Language and Culture of the Tangut Kingdom (1997)
Niú Dáshēng
牛达生[24]
b. 1933 China The Western Xia Square Pagoda at Baisigou (2005)
Research into Western Xia Coins (2013)
Shi Jinbo in traditional Yi dress in 1961 Shǐ Jīnbō
史金波[25]
b. 1940 China Study of the Sea of Characters (1983)
Brief History of Buddhism in the Western Xia (1988)
Study of Western Xia Publishing (2004)
Tangut Language and Manuscripts: An Introduction 西夏文教程 (2013, English edition 2020)
The Economy of Western Xia: A Study of 11th to 13th Century Tangut Records 西夏经济文书研究 (2017, English edition 2021)
Mikhail Viktorovich Sofronov [fr]
Михаи́л Ви́кторович Софро́нов[26]
b. 1929 Russia Grammar of the Tangut Language (1968)
Kirill Solonin at a conference on Tangut studies at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg University, December 2015 Kirill Iurʹevich Solonin
Кири́лл Ю́рьевич Соло́нин[27]
b. 1969 Russia "Hongzhou Buddhism in Xixia and the Heritage of Zongmi (780–841)" (2003)
"The Chan Teaching of Nanyang Huizhong (?-775) in Tangut Translation" (2012)
"The "Perfect Teaching" and Liao Sources of Tangut Chan Buddhism: A Study of Jiexing zhaoxin tu" (2013)
Sun Bojun at the International Tangut Encoding Conference, Beijing, December 2013 Sūn Bójūn
孫伯君[28]
b. 1966 China "Sanskrit-Chinese phonetic transcriptions and the Northwest Chinese dialect in Tangut translations of sūtras" (2007)
Tai Chung-pui at the International Tangut Encoding Conference, Beijing, December 2013 Tai Chung-pui
戴忠沛[29]
b. 1977 China (Hong Kong) "Collation of five newly seen Tangut fragments with Tibetan transcription" (2009)
Anatoly Pavlovich Terentev-Katansky
Анато́лий Па́влович Тере́нтьев-Ката́нский[30]
1934–1998 Russia Book Publishing in the Tangut State (1981)
Sea of Characters (1969)
Wang Jingru at the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, 1964 Wáng Jìngrú [zh]
王静如[31]
1903–1990 China "Notes on the Chinese and Tibetan transcriptions of the Hsi-hsia (Tangutan) language" (1930)
Research on the Western Xia (1933)
"Introduction to the Phonetic System of the Tangut Language" (1982)
Stuart N. Wolfenden 1889–1938 US "On the Tibetan Transcription of Si-Hia Words" (1931)
"On the Prefixes and Consonantal Finals of Si-Hia as evidenced by their Chinese and Tibetan transcriptions" (1934)
Viacheslav Petrovich Zaytsev
Вячесла́в Петро́вич За́йцев[32]
b. 1976 Russia "Re-examination of the Tangut Fragment Or. 12380/3495 from the Collection of the British Library" (2016)

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "白滨 (Bai Bin)". Ningxia University. 2 December 2010. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
  2. ^ Grinstead, Eric (1972). Analysis of the Tangut Script. Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series no. 10. Studentlitteratur. p. 51. ISBN 91-44-09191-5.
  3. ^ Galambos, Imre (2016). "Introduction". Gerard Clauson's Skeleton Tangut (Hsi Hsia) Dictionary. Evertype. p. xvii. ISBN 978-1-78201-167-5.
  4. ^ van Driem, George (2001). Handbuch Der Orientalistik. Brill. p. 458. ISBN 9789004120624.
  5. ^ a b c "The Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) cordially invites you to a workshop on Tangut studies" (PDF). 14 December 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  6. ^ Gong, Xun (2 April 2020). "Uvulars and uvularization in Tangut phonology". Language and Linguistics. 21 (2): 175–212. doi:10.1075/lali.00060.gon. ISSN 1606-822X. S2CID 216275709.
  7. ^ "韩小忙 (Han Xiaomang)". Ningxia University. 8 December 2010. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
  8. ^ "黄振华 (Huang Zhenhua)". Ningxia University. 8 December 2010. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
  9. ^ "贾常业 (Jia Changye)". Ningxia University. 2 December 2010. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  10. ^ "景永时 (Jing Yongshi)". Ningxia University. 2 December 2010. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  11. ^ "Ксения Борисовна Кепинг". Institute of Oriental Manuscripts. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
  12. ^ "Всеволод Сергеевич Колоколов". Institute of Oriental Manuscripts. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
  13. ^ "Evgeny Ivanovich Kychanov". Institute of Oriental Manuscripts. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
  14. ^ "李范文 (Li Fanwen)". Ningxia University. 2 December 2010. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
  15. ^ "林英津". Institute of Linguistics, Academic Sinica. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
  16. ^ "罗振玉 (Luo Zhenyu)". Ningxia University. 8 December 2010. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
  17. ^ "罗福成 (Luo Fucheng)". Ningxia University. 8 December 2010. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
  18. ^ "罗福苌 (Luo Fuchang)". Ningxia University. 8 December 2010. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
  19. ^ "罗福颐 (Luo Fuyi)". Ningxia University. 8 December 2010. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
  20. ^ van Driem, George (2001). Handbuch Der Orientalistik. Brill. p. 458. ISBN 9789004120624.
  21. ^ "Николай Александрович Невский". Institute of Oriental Manuscripts. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
  22. ^ "聂鸿音 (Nie Hongyin)". Ningxia University. 2 December 2010. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
  23. ^ Grinstead, Eric (1972). Analysis of the Tangut Script. Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series no. 10. Studentlitteratur. p. 51. ISBN 91-44-09191-5.
  24. ^ "牛达生 (Niu Dasheng)". Ningxia University. 2 December 2010. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
  25. ^ "史金波 (Shi Jinbo)". Ningxia University. 2 December 2010. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
  26. ^ "Михаил Викторович Софронов". Institute of Oriental Manuscripts. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  27. ^ "Кирилл Юрьевич Солонин (1969-)". Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  28. ^ "孙伯君 (Sun Bojun)". Ningxia University. 2 December 2010. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
  29. ^ "Researchers: Dr. Tai Chung Pui". University of Hong Kong. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  30. ^ "Анатолий Павлович Терентьев-Катанский". Institute of Oriental Manuscripts. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
  31. ^ "王静如 (Wang Jingru)". Ningxia University. 8 December 2010. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
  32. ^ "Вячеслав Петрович Зайцев". Institute of Oriental Manuscripts. Retrieved 4 October 2016.

External links edit

  • Bibliography of Tangut Studies