Paul Pelliot

Paul Pelliot (May 28th 1878 - October 26th 1945), Sinologue is an adventurer and linguist French (he spoke 13 languages, to begin with the Chinese). He was the pupil of the indianist Sylvain Lévi.

Boarder then member of the French École of the Far East, whose seat was then located at Hanoï, it carries out for the account of this institution several missions, in particular in China and Central Asia.

To 21 years, it is sent to Beijing in order to recover manuscripts there. He is there at the time of the Révolte of the Boxers, and he belongs to the Westerners besieged in the city during the 55 days of Beijing of the summer 1900. He takes an active part and heroically with the defense of Legations it for what he will be decorated with the Légion of honor.

Most famous of these missions is however that of 1908 during which, left Paris in 1906 with two companions it gains the Turkestan to join Beijing in 1909. During its stay in Turkestan close to Dunhuang, it bought with the abbot Wang part of the manuscripts that this one had discovered in the Grottes of Mogao and had not sold with the English orientalist Aurel Stein. Its talents of linguist enabled him to select the most interesting manuscripts.

Of fine return in France 1909, it studied these invaluable religious manuscripts (Buddhist) and laymen, written in Chinese, Tibetan, Sogdien and Ouïgour, today always in possession of the National library of France. Those proved of great importance for the study of the Central Asia of the period VI {{E}} at the 11th century and the diffusion of the Bouddhisme towards China by the Silk route.
He is professor with the Collège de France starting from 1911.
The murals that it had also reported as for them are preserved at the National museum of Asian-Guimet Arts.

Its work of the years 1920 - 1930 always make authority.

These manuscripts are in the course of digitalization within the framework of the international Project of Dunhuang.

Work and publications

Pelliot (with E. Chavannes), " A treaty Manichean found in Chine" , JA 1911, pp. 499-617; 1913, pp. 99-199, 261-392.
" Iranian influences in Central Asia and the Far East, " Review of History and Literature Nuns, N.S. 3,1912, pp. 97-119.
" Mo-nor and Manicheans, " JA 1914, pp. 461-70.
" “Cha-tcheou-tou-insane-you or-king” and the colony sogdienne of the area of the NOR Lob " , JA 1916, pp. 111-23.
" Will sûtra causes and effects of the good and mal". Published ‚and translated according to the texts Sogdien, Chinese and Tibetan by Robert Gauthiot and Paul Pelliot, 2 flights (with the collaboration of E. Benveniste), Paris, 1920.
" Mongols and Papacy. New documents published, translated and with accompanying notes by Mr. Paul Pelliot" with the collaboration of Misters Borghezio, Mass ‚and Tisserant, Re-examined the Christian East, 3rd sér. 3 (23), 1922/23, pp. 3-30; 4 (24), 1924, pp. 225-335; 8 (28), 1931, pp. 3-84.
" The traditions manichéennes with the Foukien, " You oung CAM, 22,1923, pp. 193-208.
" Last nine notes on questions of Central Asia, " You oung CAM, 24,1929, pp. 201-265.
" Notes on Marco Polo, ED. L. Hambis, 3 flights., Paris 1959-63.
" Research on the Christians of Central Asia and the Far East I, Paris, 1973.
" The inscription nestorienne of If-ngan-insane, ED. with supplements by Antonino Strong, Kyoto and Paris, 1996.

External bonds

international Project of Dunhuang

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