Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s5.t6.1

v1.c7.s5.t6.1

Tangut script - Tripitaka was originally translated from Chinese Tripitaka. In the first year of Jing You of Northern Song Dynasty (1034), Kai Bao Zang was introduced into the Western Xia Regime (maybe Tianxi revised version of Kai Bao Zang). The founding emperor of Western Xia Regime, Zhao Yuanhao, established Kodaiji Temple in Xingqingfu to collect Kai Bao Zang and meanwhile invited Uighur monks to translate it into new Tangut script. It took 53 years to translate Kai Bao Zang, with a