AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY CONCERNING THE ORIGIN OF THE QIN PEOPLE IN THE TSINGHUA BAMBOO MANUSCRIPTS

Most of the Tsinghua Bamboo Slips （TBS） texts date from the Warring States period and they are either works of the （so-called） Classics （jing, 经 ） or Historical books （shi, 史 ）. One of the TBS texts,     

Editor＇s Note

On July 15, 2008, Tsinghua University received into its collection a batch of Warring States Bamboo slips dating to around 300 BCE that had been previously smuggled out of China. Known as the ＇Tsinghua Bamboo Slips＇ 清华简（TBS）,     

Abstracts

The character in Laozi （ 《老子》） ） of Guodian bamboo slips, which corresponds to ＂jing （惊 ）＂in Chapter 13 of the handed-down edition, should be interpreted as ＂ying （营 ）＂. From the textual explanation,     

信阳长台关楚简《遣策》编联二题

The 29 inscribed bamboo slips, which were unearthed from Tomb 1 at Changtaiguan, Xinyang, Henan province, might have been organized into a volume for recording the funeral objects of Tomb 1. In this article, the author discusses some characters on the bamboo slips such as cun (inch) , jing (diameter) , bo (width) , yin (mat) , etc. Based on the interpretation of these characters and the position of the related funeral objects, a group of the 6 bamboo slips numbered 2-09, 2-07, 2-10, 2-15, 2-13, 2-02 and another one of the 4 bamboo slips numbered 2-21, 2-23, 2-19, 2-28 are placed in order separately.     

Padma Chogya and the Tibetan Black Ceramic Handicraft

正Walking into the Exhibition Hall located in Zone A of the Academy of Arts and Design of Tsinghua University,I began to search for Padma Chogya in the crowd.The university was undergoing its first exhibition of intangible cultural heritages,and as I was matching things up with what I had on my phone,my eyes finally fell upon a long-haired Khampa man who was busy working on a half-formed     

梅瓶三绝

The plum vases, one with a white dragon design over the blue ground of Yuan dynasty, one with a design of Xiao He chasing Han Xin in the moonlight in underglaze blue of the late Yuan and early Ming, and the other with pine, bamboo, and plum designs in underglaze red in the Ming dynasty under Hongwu‘s reign, are three important pieces in Yuan and Ming dynasties in Jiangsu Province. They might be rated as the three treasures in the Chinese porcelain world for their unique characteristics.     

BEIJING SYMPOSIUM EXPLORES MODERNIZATION OF TIBETAN-INHABITED AREAS

The China National Centers for Tibetan Studiesin Beliing and the Sichuan Tibetology Institutejointly sponsored a symposium, "Developmentof Western Regions and Modernization ofTibetan-Inhabited Areas", in Chengdu, Sichuan Province,November 7-10, 2000. Close to 70 scholars attended. Thefollowing are excerpts from their speeches.Han Experienced Should Not Be Copied RigidlyHu An'gang (Director and Professor of the Information and Research Center of Tsinghua University) andWen Jun (P…     

Influence Of Tibetan Buddhism On The Hinterland In The Ming Dynasty

The main sects of Tibetan Buddhism （popularly; Lamaism） were originally the Nyingma（rnying-ma）, Kagyu（bkav-brgyud）, Kadam and Sakya （sa-skya） traditions. Tsongkhapa founded the Gelug（dge-lugs） sect at the beginning of the isth century Afterwards, the Kadam sect merged into the Gelug sect. Therefore the four main sects of Tibetan Buddhism became the Nyingrna, Kagyu, Gelug and Sakya, which continue today Tibetan Buddhism＇s eastward spread was a long process.     

LINEAGE of The Panchen Lamas

In 1645, Gushri Khan （leader of the Mongol Hoshod which ruled UTsang） revered Lobsang Qoigyi Gyaincain （the fourth-generation disciple of Zongkapa, the 16th abbot of Tashilhungpo Monastery in Xigaze）, as the Panchen Bokedo （Bokedo being a Mongolian word meaning wise and heroic person）, and decided that the Xigaze area be put under the rule of the Tashilhungpo Monastery. This is the source of the title of Panchen.     

11th Panchen Erdeni Successful In Buddhist Studies

On December 8,2000, thefifth anniversary of theenthronement of the 11thPanchen Erdeni, I visitedhim. Rising from his seat coufteously,the young Buddhist master extendedhis right hand to shake mine, saying"Ni Hao" (Chinese for "How do youdo?")Wow! His hand was tough andpowerful! He is no longer a boy. Hehas grown up, but is thin like a growing bamboo. We had a good chat, concentrating on his five-year study ofBuddhist doctrines, which is a topic ofextreme interest to the Chinese publicand…     

YOU DO NOT LISTEN TO ME FACE-WORK AND THE POSITION OF ＇SENIOR＇ SCRIBE OF THE NECROPOLIS？

1. Introduction
The administrative title ＇scribe of the necropolis＇ （ss n p3 hr^1） is a well-known and well-studied aspect of New Kingdom scholarship.2 For the duration of the royal necropolis at Thebes （1550-1069 BCE.）, today known as the Valley of the Kings, the scribe of the necropolis was responsible for keeping daily accounts of the work undertaken at the site, and supplying and distributing rations for the general workforce. Other duties are also documented including the delivery of goods and supplies to the village of Deir el-Medina,     

睡虎地秦简《日书》及《诘》篇补证

This article researches some difficult words of 《Daily book》 and 《Jie》 in Yun Meng Shui Hu Di bamboo slips of Qin Dynasty. (1)“Xiao Fu Sicheng”,“Xiao Fu” is the common people who were in the exploited class, “Si Cheng”means everything goes well for fourreasons. (2)“Shishi” means having something to do with soil. (3)“Zang Bi Can”,the “Can” means standing face to face. (4)“Du” is nature. (5)“Qiu Gui, YuGui, AiGui”, the three kinds of ghosts should be “QiGui” in 《Lu Shi Chun Qiu》.     

Six Tibetan Translations of the Ratnagotravibhaga

The Ratnagotravibhaga （abbr. RGV） is one of the most influential texts among Indic works that teach the Buddha-nature doctrine in Tibet. No translation of the text seems to have existed in Tibet before the 11th century, inasmuch as no catalogue of the imperial period （the 9th century）,     

THE LIVING FOSSIL OF SHANGSHUNG CIVILIZATION： TSEDRUP DIVINE DANCE

Tibet, the most magical snow-land plateau on the planet, has given birth to the most mysterious and ancient civilization in human history： Shangshung. ＂Yung-drung Bon Religion＂ （＂Bon＂ for short） originated in the ancient Gangdise Mountains of the Shangshung area （now the Ngari area of Tibet） and is the oldest religion in Tibet with thousands of years of history.     

Schneider,Helen M., Keeping the Nation＇s House.＂ Domestic Management and the Making of Modern China

According to the ancient wisdom of the Great Learning （Daxue）, the regulation of a state extends from proper regulation of family affairs. This doctrine echoes throughout Helen Schneider＇s fascinating study of how the imported discipline of home economics （jiazheng xue） became domesticated in China before 1949. Like other new disciplines in China,     

Zhu Weiqun Says the Essence of the “Middle Way Approach”——is a Vicious Attempt to Divide the Nation and the People of China

On Nov. 10, 2008, Mr. Zhu Weiqun, the executive deputy head of the United Front Work Department （UFWD）, Mr.Sitar, the deputy head of UFWD, and Mr. Baema Chilain, the Deputy Chairman of Tibet Autonomous Region （TAR）,held a joint press conference in Beijing. On reviewing the recent talks with the Dalai Lama＇s private envoys, they set out the consistent policy of the central government toward the Dalai Lama.This issue of the journal includes the text of Mr. Zhu Weiqun＇s address to the media as follows：     

THE SUN THE LION： EARLIEST HYMN TO THE SUN FROM EBLA AND ABU-SALABIKH （2600- 2500）

A hymn that praises the Sun god belongs to the earliest literature work of Mesopotamian civilization and it expressed a hearty praise of the absolute being, the Sun, the god of brightness of the ancient Akkadian people of 3^rd millennium. It is one of the earliest religious and literature heritages written in Semitic language （2600-2500 B.C） by the Akkadian people, the Semitics in the early Mesopotamia, who began to borrow the Sumerian cuneiforms to write their own speeches. The two exemplars of the hymn were excavated from two distant places： one came during 1963-65 from Tell Abu-Salabikh, the ruin of an unknown ancient city, 12 miles from the northwest ofNippur. A photograph of the main but damaged text, OIP 99 - IAS, no 326, without a handwritten copy, and a hand copy of a fragment of the hymn, OIP 99 no 342, were published by American scholar R. Biggs in 1974I. The language of Abu-Salabikh is the earliest Semitic （c. 2500 B.C）, possibly related to the later Old Akkadian （2300-2100 B.C）. In 1974-1975, a generally complete text of this hymn but rewritten by the local Semitic scribes in Ebla dialect was discovered in the ancient city Ebla （Tell Mardikh）2 in Syria by an Italian archaeologist team. German scholar D. O. Edzard hand-copied the original text in 1984 as The Archiv Reali di Ebla Testi V, no 6 and did an initiative transliteration3. In 1989,     

简帛《五行》述略

“Wu Xing”(五行), an epistemological literature written on bamboo slips and Silk, is fully configurated and carefully designed . The oringin of its thought may trace back to Confucius and Zi You(子游). Its content directly affected the theory of Xin (心 mind) and Xing (性 nature) which appeared in late Warring States. In the course of writing the article, Zi Si‘s(子思) theory affected the part Explanation of “Wu Xing”, and the part Commentaries on “Wu Xing” were finished by the students of Shi Zi(世子) no later than the period of Mencius(孟子). It has been spent a long period finishing the literature which is a whole system consistes of Scripture(经), Explain on Classics(说) and Commentaries on Classics (传). “Wu Xing” had been lost after Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD), and the reason for which attributed mainly to the thought despotism.     

Interview with Village Leaders （1）：Political,Legal and Public Services in Rural Tibet

The Tibetan Areas Development Study Group of the CAS, led by research fellow Wan Luolin （who is the head of the CAS Learning Advisory Committee and original administrative vice president） and research fellow Zhu Ling （deputy director of CAS Economic Research Institute）, developed the extensive research activities in the Tibetan-inhabited areas since 2000, While the study group completed the special subject policy report, it also published some learning achievements such as Choice of Roads to Development in Underdeveloped Areas-Case Study of the Tibetan-Inhabited Areas in Yunnan （published by the Economic Management Press in 2003）and Marketization and Grass-roots Public Serices-Case Study of Tibet （published by Nationality Press in 2005）.In July and August 2005, the study group developed a research program in Garze of Sichuan Province and the Qamdo area of Tibet along the Sichuan-Tibet highway.