General Abbreviations
| alt. |
alternative |
| BCE |
Before Common Era |
| c. |
century |
| ca. |
circa |
| cat. no. |
catalogue number |
| CE |
Common Era |
| CERES |
Center for Religious Studies (Centrum für Religionswissenschaftliche Studien), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany |
| cf. |
confer |
| chap. |
chapter |
| Chin. |
Chinese |
| d. |
died |
| d.u. |
dates unknown |
| e.g. |
exempli gratia |
| ERC |
European Research Council |
| etc. |
et cetera |
| fig(s). |
figure(s) |
| fl. |
flourished |
| fn. |
footnote |
| fol. |
folio |
| FWF |
Austrian Science Fund |
| Germ. |
German |
| i.e. |
id est |
| ibid. |
ibidem |
| IDP |
International Dunhuang Project at the British Library in London |
| Jap. |
Japanese |
| Kh. |
Khotanese |
| KHK |
Käte Hamburger Kolleg |
| Lat. |
Latin |
| ms(s). |
manuscript(s) |
| Mt. |
Mount |
| n./ns |
note/notes |
| no(s). |
number(s) |
| OU |
Old Uyghur |
| repr. |
reprinted |
| PI |
Principal Investigator |
| pl(s). |
plate(s) |
| r. |
reign |
| Skt. |
Sanskrit |
| tab. |
table |
| Taf. |
Tafel |
| Tang. |
Tangut |
| Tib. |
Tibetan |
| TID |
Transcendence-Immanence Distinction |
Symbols
| < |
borrowed from |
| << |
indirectly borrowed from |
| > |
borrowed into |
| [] |
gaps in the fragments |
| (ä) |
unwritten vowels and consonants |
| {ä} |
deleted against the fragment |
| […] |
omission |
| ₂ |
hendiadys |
| * |
reconstructed titles or terminologies |
| □ |
illegible character |