Imre Galambos
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 598254 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Imre Galambos |
| NOMBRES | Imre |
| APELLIDO | Galambos |
| FIRMA | GALAMBOS I |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2855-2275 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Rethinking Manuscript Reuse
Several dozen Chinese scrolls from Dunhuang contain Khotanese writings on the verso. The contents of the Khotanese side are relatively diverse, including drafts letters and reports addressed to the Khotanese court, accounts and contracts, writing exercises, narrative works such as the Rāmāyaṇa and Sudhanāvadāna, lyrical poetry, medical treatises and Buddhist texts. By contrast, the Chinese side is significantly more uniform in content and appeara…
Afterlife of a poem from Dunhuang
A Dunhuang manuscript from the tenth century preserves a poem, which appears amidst a multitude of random notes on the verso of a scroll. Most of the texts in the scroll were written in unskilled handwriting by students studying at a local Buddhist monastery. The poem is unattested anywhere else in the pre-modern period but reappears in sporadic references from the end of the nineteenth century onward in sources by Chinese-speaking Muslims in Chi…
Japanese Explorers in the Footsteps of Xuanzang
Chinese primers along the north-western frontier
By the second half of the first millennium CE, a substantial body of texts written in Literary Sinitic developed into a shared repertoire of writings throughout Central and East Asia. In no small part, this was the result of the spread of Buddhism, which, in many regions, was adopted in its Sinitic form and relied on Chinese versions of the scriptures. As part of the means to cope with Sinitic Buddhist texts, most states also adopted a range of a…
The Chinese Pothi
This paper examines Chinese pothi manuscripts from Dunhuang, arguing that this book form played an important role in the history of the Chinese book. Ultimately emulating Indian palm leaf manuscripts, the few dozen examples of Chinese pothi come from Dunhuang, where they appeared during the Tibetan control of the region. Rather than being a local phenomenon, the pothi form was instrumental in the development of more mainstream book forms, most no…
Misquoting the ancients
The Kangxi zidian 康熙字典 [Kangxi Dictionary] was without doubt the most influential and widely used dictionary in China during the past three centuries, and its impact on education, scholarship, and intellectual life in general, cannot be overstated. The dictionary's compilation was a major step in the development of Chinese lexicography, and it has been at the foundation of all large dictionary projects ever since. This paper addresses the editors…
Redeeming the orphaned souls
In 1983 and 1984, archaeologists excavated at the ruins of Khara-khoto, Inner Mongolia, about 3,000 fragments of handwritten and printed texts from the Yuan period (1271-1368). The texts were chiefly written in Chinese and Tangut but also included a handful of other languages. Among a small group of texts in Mongolian were fragments of a woodblock-printed book with illustrations, using the Uyghur script. The content of the text, as well as the pr…
The Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges between East and West
This first and only English translation of Rong Xinjiang’s The Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges Between East and West is a collection of 28 papers on the history of the Silk Road and the interactions among the peoples and cultures of East and Central Asia, including the so-called Western Regions in modern-day Xinjiang. Each paper is a masterly study that combines information obtained from historical records with excavated materials, such as manus…
Foreign travel writings in Republican China
This article examines a collection of manuscripts of travel writings kept in the National Library of China. Many of the texts are copies of articles and travel accounts published in magazines, papers, or books during the first decade of the Republican period. Although the majority of texts are by Chinese authors, nine of them can be verified as translations from other languages, even though almost no information is available regarding their sourc…
Eingegangene Bücher
Untying the Bonds of Hatred
Dunhuang Manuscript Culture
Dunhuang Manuscript Culture explores the world of Chinese manuscripts from ninth-tenth century Dunhuang, an oasis city along the network of pre-modern routes known today collectively as the Silk Roads. The manuscripts have been discovered in 1900 in a sealed-off side-chamber of a Buddhist cave temple, where they had lain undisturbed for for almost nine hundred years. The discovery comprised tens of thousands of texts, written in over twenty diffe…
Interjú Csongor Barnabással
Csongor Barnabás (1923–2018) a Pázmány Péter Tudományegyetemen (később ELTE) magyar-olasz szakos volt, miközben Ligeti Lajosnál tanult kínai,török és mongol filológiát. 1948-tól az ELTE Kelet-ázsiai Tanszékén tanársegéd, majd adjunktus (1950) és docens (1962) lett. 1963 és 1983 között a tanszék vezetője volt, ahol 1991-től nyugdíjasként is sokáig tanított még
Interjú Ferenczy Máriával
Ferenczy MáriaÍrta: Kardos Tatjána, Hopp Ferenc Ázsiai Művészeti Múzeum
Laozi teaching Confucius
In addition to religious scriptures that survive from the Ming-Qing period, the Qing archives related to the prosecution of secret societies contain references to texts and images found in the possession of members of such societies at the time of their arrest. Texts may also be mentioned or at times quoted in full by the accused in the course of their interrogation. Some of these texts are unknown from other sources and thus the archival materia…
Confucius and Laozi at the altar
In the Russian collection of Tangut material there is a manuscript which describes a meeting between Confucius and an old sage. It is generally assumed that it is a translation of a Chinese work but attempts at identifying the source text have not been successful. The Tangut title survives on the last page and it has been translated as the Altar Record of Confucius’s Conciliation. This paper identifies the Chinese original among Ming-Qing religio…
Confucian education in a Buddhist environment
Although most of the surviving collections of medieval manuscripts and imprints are of Buddhist nature, they normally include a smaller number of other types of material, such as primers and didactic texts used for educational purposes. The Mengqiu 蒙求, a primer attributed to Li Han 李瀚 (d. u.) of the Tang dynasty, is one of these. Following the Song period the text fell into disuse, but early copies survived in Japan where it remained in continuou…
She Association Circulars from Dunhuang
Translating Chinese Tradition and Teaching Tangut Culture
This book is about Tangut translations of Chinese literary texts. Although most of the extant Tangut material comprises Buddhist texts, there are also many non-religious texts, which are mostly translations from Chinese. The central concern is how the Tanguts appropriated Chinese written culture through translation and what their reasons for this were. Of the seven chapters, the first three provide background information on the discovery of Tangu…
The Valley of Dantig and the myth of exile and return
The valley of Dantig in Amdo plays a central role in Tibetan Buddhist historical literature as the place where the monastic code was maintained during the tenth century after the dissolution of the monasteries in central Tibet. This article shows that a manuscript (now kept at the British Library) carried by a Chinese pilgrim monk through this region in the 960s, which mentions Dantig, is the only direct documentary evidence of Tibetan monastic c…
Punctuation Marks in Medieval Chinese Manuscripts
A Chinese Tract in Tangut Translation (Or.12380/2579)
During his third Central Asian expedition, in 1914 Sir Aurel Stein (1862–1943) visited the dead city of Khara-khoto in the Etsin-gol region (modern-day Ningxia province) which had already been explored earlier by the Russian explorer Pyotr K. Kozlov (1863–1935). Although Kozlov conducted excavations at the site on two separate occasions (1908 and 1909), Stein’s extensive experience in archaeological work and his meticulous attention to details al…
Eighteen Lectures on Dunhuang
In Eighteen Lectures on Dunhuang, Rong Xinjiang provides an accessible overview of Dunhuang studies, an academic field that emerged following the discovery of a medieval monastic library at the Mogao caves near Dunhuang. The manuscripts were hidden in a cave at the beginning of the 11th century and remained unnoticed until 1900, when a Daoist monk accidentally found them and subsequently sold most of them to foreign explorers and scholars. The av…
Japanese exploration of Central Asia
The Archives of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) include a small lot of material relating to the three expeditions to western China organized and financed by Count Ōtani Kozui (1902-14), with the aim of exploring Buddhist sites. Ōtani also recognized the significance of promoting their results outside of Japan and integrating them into the international academic community, primarily Britain. Since his collection was later dispersed, the mater…
Orthography of early Chinese writing
Eighteen Lectures on Dunhuang
In Eighteen Lectures on Dunhuang, Rong Xinjiang provides an accessible overview of Dunhuang studies, an academic field that emerged following the discovery of a medieval monastic library at the Mogao caves near Dunhuang. The manuscripts were hidden in a cave at the beginning of the 11th century and remained unnoticed until 1900, when a Daoist monk accidentally found them and subsequently sold most of them to foreign explorers and scholars. The av…
Dunhuang Manuscript Culture
Dunhuang Manuscript Culture explores the world of Chinese manuscripts from ninth-tenth century Dunhuang, an oasis city along the network of pre-modern routes known today collectively as the Silk Roads. The manuscripts have been discovered in 1900 in a sealed-off side-chamber of a Buddhist cave temple, where they had lain undisturbed for for almost nine hundred years. The discovery comprised tens of thousands of texts, written in over twenty diffe…
Japanese exploration of Central Asia
The Archives of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) include a small lot of material relating to the three expeditions to western China organized and financed by Count Ōtani Kozui (1902-14), with the aim of exploring Buddhist sites. Ōtani also recognized the significance of promoting their results outside of Japan and integrating them into the international academic community, primarily Britain. Since his collection was later dispersed, the mater…
The Valley of Dantig and the myth of exile and return
The valley of Dantig in Amdo plays a central role in Tibetan Buddhist historical literature as the place where the monastic code was maintained during the tenth century after the dissolution of the monasteries in central Tibet. This article shows that a manuscript (now kept at the British Library) carried by a Chinese pilgrim monk through this region in the 960s, which mentions Dantig, is the only direct documentary evidence of Tibetan monastic c…
The Myth of the Qin Unification of Writing in Han Sources
This study explores the unification of the script that allegedly happened in 221 BC when the Qin ruler united China and assumed the title of the First Emperor. By re-examining the earliest sources where the unification is described (i.e. the Shiji, the Hanshu, and the Shuowen jiezi). This paper argues that there was a political and ideological agenda behind ascribing the process to a single person, namely, the victorious Qin ruler. In reality, ho…
The story of the Chinese seals found in Ireland
In 1850, a paper was read before the Royal Historical Society of Ireland regarding a group of Chinese porcelain seals that had come to light during the previous eighty years in Ireland. In total there were about sixty seals which it was claimed had been discovered in various places throughout Ireland, ranging from Belfast all the way to Cork. In addition to their wide dispersion pattern, the seals were found in the strangest places – in an orchar…
Manuscripts and Travellers
This study is based on a Sino-Tibetan manuscript from the late 960s, carried by a Chinese pilgrim through the Hexi corridor on his way from Wutaishan to India. Included is a series of Tibetan letters of introduction that functioned as a passport as the monk stopped in monasteries on his way. The manuscript is a unique contemporarytestimony of the large pilgrimage movement known from historical sources. It also provides evidence for the high degre…
Touched a nation's heart”
The papers of Sir Edward Denison Ross (1871–1940) at the Archives of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) include a series of letters from Hungary, which thank him for his contribution in bringing the world's attention to Alexander Csoma de Kőrös (1784–1842). Some of these letters were produced collectively by learned societies and signed by dozens of male and female members, but many were also written by ordinary people expressing t…
Japanese exploration of Central Asia
The Archives of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) include a small lot of material relating to the three expeditions to western China organized and financed by Count Ōtani Kozui (1902-14), with the aim of exploring Buddhist sites. Ōtani also recognized the significance of promoting their results outside of Japan and integrating them into the international academic community, primarily Britain. Since his collection was later dispersed, the mater…
Eighteen Lectures on Dunhuang
In Eighteen Lectures on Dunhuang, Rong Xinjiang provides an accessible overview of Dunhuang studies, an academic field that emerged following the discovery of a medieval monastic library at the Mogao caves near Dunhuang. The manuscripts were hidden in a cave at the beginning of the 11th century and remained unnoticed until 1900, when a Daoist monk accidentally found them and subsequently sold most of them to foreign explorers and scholars. The av…
Punctuation Marks in Medieval Chinese Manuscripts
A Chinese Tract in Tangut Translation (Or.12380/2579)
During his third Central Asian expedition, in 1914 Sir Aurel Stein (1862–1943) visited the dead city of Khara-khoto in the Etsin-gol region (modern-day Ningxia province) which had already been explored earlier by the Russian explorer Pyotr K. Kozlov (1863–1935). Although Kozlov conducted excavations at the site on two separate occasions (1908 and 1909), Stein’s extensive experience in archaeological work and his meticulous attention to details al…
Confucian education in a Buddhist environment
Although most of the surviving collections of medieval manuscripts and imprints are of Buddhist nature, they normally include a smaller number of other types of material, such as primers and didactic texts used for educational purposes. The Mengqiu 蒙求, a primer attributed to Li Han 李瀚 (d. u.) of the Tang dynasty, is one of these. Following the Song period the text fell into disuse, but early copies survived in Japan where it remained in continuou…
She Association Circulars from Dunhuang
Translating Chinese Tradition and Teaching Tangut Culture
This book is about Tangut translations of Chinese literary texts. Although most of the extant Tangut material comprises Buddhist texts, there are also many non-religious texts, which are mostly translations from Chinese. The central concern is how the Tanguts appropriated Chinese written culture through translation and what their reasons for this were. Of the seven chapters, the first three provide background information on the discovery of Tangu…
The Valley of Dantig and the myth of exile and return
The valley of Dantig in Amdo plays a central role in Tibetan Buddhist historical literature as the place where the monastic code was maintained during the tenth century after the dissolution of the monasteries in central Tibet. This article shows that a manuscript (now kept at the British Library) carried by a Chinese pilgrim monk through this region in the 960s, which mentions Dantig, is the only direct documentary evidence of Tibetan monastic c…
Confucius and Laozi at the altar
In the Russian collection of Tangut material there is a manuscript which describes a meeting between Confucius and an old sage. It is generally assumed that it is a translation of a Chinese work but attempts at identifying the source text have not been successful. The Tangut title survives on the last page and it has been translated as the Altar Record of Confucius’s Conciliation. This paper identifies the Chinese original among Ming-Qing religio…
Laozi teaching Confucius
In addition to religious scriptures that survive from the Ming-Qing period, the Qing archives related to the prosecution of secret societies contain references to texts and images found in the possession of members of such societies at the time of their arrest. Texts may also be mentioned or at times quoted in full by the accused in the course of their interrogation. Some of these texts are unknown from other sources and thus the archival materia…
Interjú Csongor Barnabással
Csongor Barnabás (1923–2018) a Pázmány Péter Tudományegyetemen (később ELTE) magyar-olasz szakos volt, miközben Ligeti Lajosnál tanult kínai,török és mongol filológiát. 1948-tól az ELTE Kelet-ázsiai Tanszékén tanársegéd, majd adjunktus (1950) és docens (1962) lett. 1963 és 1983 között a tanszék vezetője volt, ahol 1991-től nyugdíjasként is sokáig tanított még
Interjú Ferenczy Máriával
Ferenczy MáriaÍrta: Kardos Tatjána, Hopp Ferenc Ázsiai Művészeti Múzeum
Untying the Bonds of Hatred
Dunhuang Manuscript Culture
Dunhuang Manuscript Culture explores the world of Chinese manuscripts from ninth-tenth century Dunhuang, an oasis city along the network of pre-modern routes known today collectively as the Silk Roads. The manuscripts have been discovered in 1900 in a sealed-off side-chamber of a Buddhist cave temple, where they had lain undisturbed for for almost nine hundred years. The discovery comprised tens of thousands of texts, written in over twenty diffe…
Eingegangene Bücher
Foreign travel writings in Republican China
This article examines a collection of manuscripts of travel writings kept in the National Library of China. Many of the texts are copies of articles and travel accounts published in magazines, papers, or books during the first decade of the Republican period. Although the majority of texts are by Chinese authors, nine of them can be verified as translations from other languages, even though almost no information is available regarding their sourc…
The Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges between East and West
This first and only English translation of Rong Xinjiang’s The Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges Between East and West is a collection of 28 papers on the history of the Silk Road and the interactions among the peoples and cultures of East and Central Asia, including the so-called Western Regions in modern-day Xinjiang. Each paper is a masterly study that combines information obtained from historical records with excavated materials, such as manus…
Orthography of early Chinese writing
Afterlife of a poem from Dunhuang
A Dunhuang manuscript from the tenth century preserves a poem, which appears amidst a multitude of random notes on the verso of a scroll. Most of the texts in the scroll were written in unskilled handwriting by students studying at a local Buddhist monastery. The poem is unattested anywhere else in the pre-modern period but reappears in sporadic references from the end of the nineteenth century onward in sources by Chinese-speaking Muslims in Chi…
Japanese Explorers in the Footsteps of Xuanzang
Chinese primers along the north-western frontier
By the second half of the first millennium CE, a substantial body of texts written in Literary Sinitic developed into a shared repertoire of writings throughout Central and East Asia. In no small part, this was the result of the spread of Buddhism, which, in many regions, was adopted in its Sinitic form and relied on Chinese versions of the scriptures. As part of the means to cope with Sinitic Buddhist texts, most states also adopted a range of a…
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