RLG206H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Matthew Kapstein, Northern Silk Road, 5Th Dalai Lama
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Tutorial #5: writing your proposal/paper: the importance of introductions. You will be shown four introductions from a variety of buddhist studies articles. Please read each one, give it a grade, and write at least two reasons why you gave it the grade that you did. In 673 a low-ranking soldier and moneylender named zuo chongxi died and was buried in the astana graveyards of. Turfan, then the farthest outpost of the tang empire. When his tomb was excavated in 1964, fifteen contracts dating from 660 to 670 were found. " Most of the contracts from turfan survive because they were cut up as paper shoes or boots for the dead, and historians have laboriously reconstructed them. Rolled up together, they look as if they were deliberately placed there. This brief essay will suggest an answer on the basis of the documents in moneylender. Zuo"s tomb and other materials i have consulted in writing a book on chinese contracts.
