The Studies on Old Central Asian Manuscripts preserved in Russia

本研究项目的目的是研究保存在俄罗斯科学院东方研究所圣彼得堡分院档案馆的古亚洲语言手稿。这些手稿用回鹘语、于阗语、粟特语、唐古特语和蒙古语写成。项目成员从语言学和文献学的角度对这些手稿进行了彻底的检查。本研究项目的成果发表在以下目录、书籍等。目录(1)《俄罗斯科学院唐古特佛经目录》，京都大学，京都，1999年。(2)《圣彼得堡馆藏维吾尔文目录》，京都大学，京都，2001年（印本）。(1)《维语达斯卡玛帕塔瓦达那玛拉》，京都，1998,12 +377页。(2)《对欧亚语言研究的贡献：亚洲手稿中的问题》，京都大学俄罗斯科学院东方研究分馆，京都（已印刷）。1997年10月24日至25日在日本京都会馆和羽田纪念馆举行了“中亚的死亡语言和突厥濒危语言”研讨会。项目成员在该研究项目期间在日本和俄罗斯发表了20多篇论文，组织或参加了10多场研讨会。

The aim of this research project is to study manuscripts written in old Asian languages, which are preserved at the archives in the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. The manuscripts are written in Uighur, Khotanese, Sogdian, Tangut and Mongolian. The project members thoroughly examined these manuscripts in terms of linguistics as well as philology. The results of this research project are published in the following catalogues, books and so on.1. CATALOGUES(1) Katalog Tangutskix Buddijskix Pamjatnikov Instituta Vostkovedenija Rossijsoj Akademii Nauk (The Catalog of the Buddhist Texts of Tangut in Russian Academy of Sciences), Kyoto University, Kyoto, 1999.(2) The Catalog of the Uighur Texts in the St. Petersburg Collection, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 2001 (in print).2. BOOKS(1) The Dasakarmapathavadanamala in Uighur, Shokado, Kyoto, 1998, xii+377p.(2) Contribution to the Studies of Eurasian Languages : Issues in the Asian Manuscripts at the Archive of the St. Petersburg Branch of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto (in print).3. SYMPOSIUM"DEAD LANGUAGES IN CENTRAL ASIA AND TURKIC ENDANGERED LANGUAGES" held at the Kyodai-Kaikan Hall and the Haneda Memorial Hall on 24th-25th October 1997.The project members published more than 20 articles and organized or participated in more than 10 workshops in Japan as well as in Russia in the term of this research project.