Preface ....................................................... vii
Matthew T. Kapstein, Yoshiro Imaeda and Tsuguhito Takeuchi
Abbreviations .................................................. ix
Philology and Linguistics
Nathan W. Hill
The Allative, Locative, and Terminative Cases (la-don)
in the Old Tibetan Annals ....................................... 3
Yoshiro Imaeda
Towards a Comprehensive and Unambiguous Transliteration
Scheme of Tibetan .............................................. 39
Sam van Schaik
A New Look at the Tibetan Invention of Writing ................. 45
Bettina Zeisler
For Love of the Word: a New Translation of Pelliot tibétain
1287, the Old Tibetan Chronicle, Chapter 1 ..................... 97
Historical Studies
Takatoshi Akagi
Six 10th Century Royal Seals of the Khotan Kingdom ............ 217
Brandon Dotson
Sources for the Old Tibetan Chronicle: a Fragment from the
Non-Extant Chronicle Pothi .................................... 231
Kazushi Iwao
A Newly Identified Fragment of the Tibetan Royal Annals
in St. Petersburg ............................................. 245
Akihiro Sakajiri
A Tibetan Register of Grain Delivery in Dunhuang in the
Period Following Tibetan Domination: Pelliot tibétain 1097 .... 257
Religion and Divination
Cathy Cantwell & Robert Mayer
The Dunhuang 'Phags pa thabs kyi zhags pa padma 'phreng gi
don bsdus pa'i 'grel pa' Manuscript: a Source for
Understanding the Transmission of Mahᾱyoga in Tibet.
A Progress Report ............................................. 273
Jacob P. Dalton
Mahᾱyoga Ritual Interests at Dunhuang: A Translation and
Study of the Codex IOL Tib J 437/Pelliot tibétain 324 ......... 293
Ai Nishida
An old Tibetan Divination with Coins: IOL Tib J 742 ........... 315
List of Editors and Contributors .............................. 329
Plates ........................................................ 331
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