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This paper introduces the unpublished copy of a Tangut script Garland Sutra华严经(or Flower Ornament Sutra) volume/juan 41第四十一卷stored at the C.V.Starr East Asian Library at the University of California,Berkeley.It reinforces the assessment of this manuscript as a modern forgery.Through comparing various physical features of the same volume stored in other countries,and the history of their acquisition,this paper traces the lithographic reproduction of this volume to the early twentieth century and its later circulation.This research also compares the Berkeley copy with the Princeton copy of volume 77 which is the other only known Tangut Garland Sutra in America.The fundamental difference between the two copies prove that the former was a modern forgery but the latter a Yuan period product of movable type wooden block print.
This paper introduces the unpublished copy of a Tangut script Garland Sutra or flower Ornament Sutra volume / juan 41 第 41 stored at stored at the CVStarr East Asian Library at the University of California, Berkeley.It reinforces the assessment of this manuscript as a modern forgery.Through comparison various physical features of the same volume stored in other countries, and the history of their acquisition, this paper traces the lithographic reproduction of this volume to the early twentieth century and its later also compares the Berkeley copy with the Princeton copy of volume 77 which is the other only known Tangut Garland Sutra in America. The fundamental difference between the two copies prove that the former was a modern forgery but the latter a Yuan period product of movable type wooden block print