Tangut (Xi Xia) Studies in the Soviet Union: Quinta Essentia of Russian Oriental Studies by Sergey Dmitriev

“…Grace to the famous discovery of Piotr Kozlov’s expedition, a very rich collection of various Tangut books in a mausoleum in the dead city of Khara-Khoto was found in 1908, and almost all the texts in the Tangut language were then assembled in Saint-Petersburg. …”
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Buddhism and Confucianism in the Tangut State: A Comparative Analysis, with Special Attention to the Use of the Term Xiang by Kirill Solonin

“…This ‘tradition’ cannot be reconstructed in its entirety: our sources are limited to the surviving textual materials in the Tangut language and scattered evidence in a variety of Chinese sources, and, to an even lesser extent, in the Tibetan chronicles. …”
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