The Dunhuang Tibetan Book of Zambasta
- Date of account
- Manuscript tradition c. 8th–10th centuries; studies 2010 onward
- Location
- Dunhuang and Central Asian manuscript networks
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Book of Zambasta is a Khotanese Buddhist work known through manuscripts and translations connected with the multilingual religious environment of Central Asia. It is especially relevant to comparison because it shows how Buddhist narrative, ethical instruction and scriptural authority moved among Khotanese, Tibetan, Chinese and other textual cultures. The surviving witnesses are incomplete and their relationships are complex. Researchers should treat titles, language labels and reconstructed passages as products of modern cataloguing and philology rather than assume a single stable original.
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