Reign Dates
Reign dates are presented in the following way:
name of reign-era reign-year.lunar-month.day
E.g., “Zhenguan 3.9.20” is day 20 of the 9th lunar month of the 3rd year of the Zhenguan
Citation Style
References to texts in Taishō shinshū daizōkyō
References to texts in (Wan) xu zangjing (
General Abbreviations
| a.k.a. | also known as |
| annot. | annotator (or annotated by) |
| anon. | anonymous(ly) |
| c. | century |
| Ch. | Chinese |
| Cha. | Chapter |
| coll. | collator (or collated by) |
| comp. | compiler (or compiled by) |
| d.u. | dates unknown |
| ed. | editor (or edited by) |
| intro. | introduced by |
| Jp. | Japanese |
| Ko. | Korean |
| Pā. | Pāli |
| r. | reigned |
| Sec. | Section |
| Skt. | Sanskrit |
| suppl. | supplement (or supplemented by) |
| Tib. | Tibet(an) |
| trans. | translator (or translated by) |
| vol(s). | volume(s) |
Abbreviations Used in Bibliography and Footnotes
| A | Zhaocheng Jinzang |
| B | Dazang jing bubian |
| B | Numbered manuscripts from Dunhuang held in the National Library of China in Beijing China. |
| D | Numbered manuscripts from Dunhuang held in the Dunhuang Yanjiuyuan |
| Dx | Numbered Dunhuang manuscript collection at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of [дx and ф] Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences |
| N | Nanden Daizōkyo |
| Ō | Numbered Dunhuang manuscript collection held at the Ōtani University, Kyoto, Japan |
| P | Yongle beizang |
| P | Chinese manuscripts from Dunhuang in the Pelliot Collection, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. |
| S | Chinese manuscripts from Dunhuang in the Stein Collection, British Library, London. |
| T | Numbered Dunhuang manuscripts held in the Tianjin Art Museum |
| T | Taishō shinshū daizōkyō; see Bibliography, Secondary Sources, Takakusu and Watanabe, et al. |
| X | (Wan) Xuzang jing ( |