@article{01JYHT79TT9HZFGRPSXH4RC012,
  abstract     = {{This Dūnhuáng manuscript preserved at the British Library
is highly remarkable, since it is the earliest dated
manuscript found among the Dūnhuáng manuscripts,
dating from 406 CE, copied only a few decades after the
first caves were excavated at Mògāo. The date is provided
in the colophon after the end of the text copy.
This manuscript is not only important because of
originating from the early 5th century, but also because it
constitutes one of the earliest witnesses of the pratimokṣa
(‘precepts/prohibitions’) of the Sarvāstivāda School (which
originally flourished in Gandhāra and north-west India) in
China. The text is a unique version of the pratimokṣa, and
there is no direct parallel of this version included in the
canonical collections. Additionally, the text is highly
interesting based on the character forms it uses, and for
researching the diachronic development of character forms
in Dūnhuáng manuscripts. Many of these forms are
difficult to identify and the rendering of the text here is
highly dependent on the masterful edition by Inokuchi
Taijun.61 Usually, I follow his interpretations, and only
occasionally an alternative reading is suggested in the
footnotes. In fact, the variant characters were the focus of
the internship assignment, and the “edition” is only a byproduct.
Since there is no digitized and searchable version
of the text available, as far as we know, we decided to
eventually make it accessible in the DMCT and the
Database Newsletter.}},
  author       = {{Wu, Taoyu and Anderl, Christoph}},
  editor       = {{Anderl, Christoph}},
  issn         = {{2952-8534}},
  journal      = {{NEWSLETTER DATABASE OF MEDIEVAL CHINESE TEXTS}},
  keywords     = {{Ten Recitations Prātimokṣa,Or.8210/S.797r,Dunhuang manuscripts,Vinaya,early Dunhuang texts,Chinese variant characters,Medieval China,Chinese Buddhism}},
  language     = {{chi,eng}},
  number       = {{2}},
  pages        = {{39--52}},
  title        = {{A rendering of the Ten Recitations Prātimokṣa sūtra based on Dūnhuáng manuscript Or.8210/S.797r}},
  url          = {{https://www.databaseof- medieval-chinesetexts. be/views/variant/showVariant.php?tag=Stein%20797}},
  year         = {{2025}},
}