The Collation And Study Of (Six) Dunhuang Cursive Manuscripts Collected In National Library Of France

The Dunhuang manuscripts collected in National Library of France includes the Chinese manuscripts mainly wrote by cursive characters.This thesis collates and researches six of them whose number and title are as listed below:P.2063,The Brief Transcription of Ny?ya prave(?)at?ka(?)?stra;P.2063V°,The Rear Commentaries of Ny?ya prave(?)at?ka(?)?stra;P.2141,Volume One of The Brief Interpretation of Awakening Faith of Mahayana;P.2412V°,Volume Four of The Interpretation of Awakening Faith of Mahayana;P.3561,Qian Zi Wen(???)in Regular and Cursive Characters writen by Jiang Shanjin(???);P.4642,The Facsimile of Wang Xizhi's(???)Zhanji Hutao Tie(?????).Those manuscripts have great value of research,while there is great difficulty.Therefore relative research is not much,lots of works to be done.This thesis focuses on Chinese characters,collates and researches the six manuscripts,revises the mistakes,probes into knotty cursive characters.The main part of this thesis sums up six types of mistakes of former interpretations,explains threee main reasons leading to mistakes,proposes three approaches for cursive characters' s recognition,discusses the value of Dunhuang cursive manuscripts in Chinese characters.Many valuable characters remain in Dunhuang cursive manuscripts.Those cursive characters is of great value of the research of Chinese characters' history and other relational researches.This thesis compiles them into a dictionary attached in the end titled Cursive Characters Table of Dunhuang Manuscripts Collected in National Library of France.