A preliminary study on the Tangut version of the Ma？ju？irī

Abstract There is a Tangut version of the Ma？ju？irī-dhāra？ī-sūtra entitled Sūtra of Counting the Merits and Virtues of Rosaries in the Ma？ju？irī-dhāra？ī preserved in the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences. The paper proves by collating the nomenclatures that the Tangut text was a translation from the Chinese version of the text by Yijing rather than that of Baosiwei