Ойратская коллекция рукописей Национального музея Тувы

Baazr A. Bicheev

doi:10.25178/nit.2019.4.2

Authors

Baazr A. Bicheev Kalmyk Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9352-7367

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25178/nit.2019.4.2

Keywords:

Tuva Republic; Tuva; National Museum of Tuva; catalogue of manuscripts; Oirat collection; Clear Script; literary collection

Abstract

The article aims to describe a small but essentially interesting collection of Oirat-language texts contained in the Aldan-Maadyr National Museum of the Tyva Republic. The museum houses quite a number of Mongolian manuscripts and woodblock prints numbering 938, including eight ones written in Oirat Clear Script.

The presence of Mongolian manuscripts in Tuva can well be explained by close centuries-old cultural and economic ties between the region and Mongolia. The intensity of the ties increased significantly during the dissemination and consolidation of Buddhism in the territory of the present-day Tyva Republic. As for the Clear Script texts, those might have been borrowed from Oirat nomadic populations that inhabited Tuva’s border areas. The bulk of Clear Script manuscripts contained in respective departments of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts (RAS) and the Gorky Scientific Library (Oriental Studies) of St. Petersburg State University were delivered by Russian researchers from exactly this territory.

Though not that extensive, the Tuvan collection of Oirat manuscripts is of significant value, since it includes both canonical texts of Buddhism and somewhat popular didactic compositions, as well as texts dealing with lay religious-and-ceremonial practices.

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