What is it about?
Moving to establish an orthographic baseline for Tibetan language in the 820s to 840s.
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It discusses the development of orthographic norms, and the sociolinguistic influence of the use of Tibetan by the largely Chinese inhabitants of Dunhuang.
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This page is a summary of: Misspelling “Buddha”: The officially commissioned Tibetan Aparimitāyur-nāma mahāyāna-sūtras from Dunhuang and the study of Old Tibetan orthography, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, February 2016, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0041977x15000981.
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