List of Tangutologists

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This list of Tangutologists includes those scholars who have made notable contributions to Tangutology (the study of Tangut people, their culture, religion, history, language and writing system).

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PictureNameDatesNationalitySignificant contributions
Arakawa Shintaro 2013.jpg Arakawa Shintarō
荒川慎太郎		b. 1971Japan"Tangut Rhyme Dictionary" (1997)
Tangut-Russian-English-Chinese Dictionary' (2006)
Bái Bīn
白濱 [1] 		1936–2022ChinaStudy of the Sea of Characters (1983)
Researches in Tangut History (1989)
Anna Bernhardi - Selbstbildnis mit Palette.jpg Anna Bernhardi1868–1944Germany"Buddhistische Bilder aus der Glanzzeit der Tanguten" (1918)
Stephen Wootton Bushell.jpg Stephen Wootton Bushell 1844–1908UK"The Hsi Hsia Dynasty of Tangut, their Money and Peculiar Script" (1895–1896)
"The Tangut script in the Nan K'ou Pass" (1899)
Gerard Clauson [2] 1891–1974UKSkeleton Dictionary of the Hsi-Hsia Language (1938–1963, manuscript published posthumously in 2016 [3] )
Gabriel Deveria.jpg Gabriel Devéria 1844–1899France"L'Écriture du Royaume de Si-Hia ou Tangout" (1898)
"Stèle Si-hia de Leang-tcheou" (1898) [4]
Ruth W. Dunnellb. 1950USA"The 1094 Sino-Tangut Gantong Stupa Stele Inscription of Wuwei" (1988)
The Great State of White and High: Buddhism and State Formation in Eleventh-Century Xia (1996)
Imre Galambos (cropped).jpg Imre Galambos [5] b. 1967Hungary"The Tangut translation of the General's Garden by Zhuge Liang" (2011)
Translating Chinese Tradition and Teaching Tangut Culture (2015)
Gong Hwang-cherng (Gōng Huángchéng)
龔煌城		1934–2010Taiwan"The phonological reconstruction of Tangut through examination of phonological alternations" (1989)
Gong Xun.png Gōng Xūn
龔勳		b. 1990China"Uvulars and uvularization in Tangut phonology" (2020) [6]
Eric Grinstead 1921–2008New ZealandThe Tangut Tripitaka (1971)
Analysis of the Tangut Script (1972)
Han Xiaomang 2013.jpg Hán Xiǎománg
韓小忙 [7] 		b. 1963ChinaDictionary of Tangut 西夏文词典 [9 vols.] (2021)
Huáng Zhènhuá
黃振華 [8] 		1930–2003ChinaStudy of the Sea of Characters (1983)
Researches in Tangut History (1989)
Aleksei Ivanovich Ivanov
Алексе́й Ива́нович Ивано́в		1878–1937Russia"Monuments de l'écriture tangout" (1920)
Guillaume Jacques.jpg Guillaume Jacques b. 1979France"The origin of vowel alternations in the Tangut verb" (2009)
"The structure of the Tangut verb" (2011)
Esquisse de phonologie et de morphologie historique du tangoute (2014)
Jia Changye.jpg Jiǎ Chángyè
賈常業 [9] 		b. 1954ChinaNewly Compiled Dictionary of Tangut Characters (2013)
Jing Yongshi.jpg Jǐng Yǒngshí
景永時 [10] 		b. 1959ChinaTranslations of books and articles by Russian Tangutologists
Design of Tangut fonts
Ksenia Kepping.jpg Ksenia Borisovna Kepping
Ксе́ния Бори́совна Ке́пинг [11] 		1937–2002RussiaSea of Characters (1969)
Sunzi in Tangut translation (1979)
Morphology of the Tangut Language (1985)
"Tangut Ritual Language" (1996)
Vsevolod Sergeevich Kolokolov
Все́волод Серге́евич Ко́локолов [12] 		1896–1979RussiaChinese Classics in Tangut Translation (1966)
Sea of Characters (1969)
Luc Kwanten 1944–2021BelgiumThe Timely Pearl: A 12th Century Tangut-Chinese Glossary (1982)
"The Phonological hypothesis of the Hsi Hsia [Tangut] Language," (1984)
"Special Research Problems in Hsi Hsia [Tangut] History and Linguistics" (1985)
"The Structure of the Tangut [Hsi Hsia] characters" (1989)
2012-10-22 Evgeny Ivanovich Kychanov.JPG Evgenij Ivanovich Kychanov
Евге́ний Ива́нович Кыча́нов [13] 		1932–2013RussiaChinese Classics in Tangut Translation (1966)
Essay on the History of the Tangut State (1968)
Sea of Characters (1969)
Tangut-Russian-English-Chinese Dictionary' (2006)
Romain Lefebvre 2015.jpg Romain Lefebvre [5] b. 1981FranceL'imaginaire de l'autre : Étude et analyse de la réception du volume 41 de l'Avataṃsakasūtra en langue tangoute, conservé à l'Université de Pékin et à l'Institut des hautes études chinoises du Collège de France (2013)
Lǐ Fànwén
李範文 [14] 		b. 1932ChinaStudy of the Homophones (1986)
Tangut-Chinese Dictionary (1997, 2008)
Lin Ying-chin 2013.jpg Lin Ying-chin (Lín Yīngjīn)
林英津 [15] 		b. 1955TaiwanStudy of the Tangut translation of "Sunzi's Art of War" (1994)
Luo Zhenyu1.JPG Luó Zhènyù
羅振玉 [16] 		1866–1940ChinaCollection of Western Xia Official Seals (1927)
Luo Fucheng.jpg Luó Fúchéng
羅福成 [17] 		1885–1960ChinaStudy of the Lotus Sutra in Tangut (1914)
Luo Fuchang.jpg Luó Fúcháng
羅福萇 [18] 		1895–1921ChinaBrief Explanation of the Western Xia Script (1914)
Luó Fúyí
羅福頤 [19] 		1905–1981ChinaCollected Study of Official Seals of the Western Xia (1982)
Marc Miyake 2015.jpg Marc Miyake [5] b. 1971USA"Sketch of Pre-Tangut" (2012)
Georges Morissed. 1910France"Contribution préliminaire à l'étude de l'écriture et de la langue si-hia" (1904) — study of the Tangut translation of the Saddharma Puṇḍarīka ( Lotus Sutra ). [20]
Nevsky family 1929.jpg Nikolai Aleksandrovich Nevsky
Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Не́вский [21] 		1892–1937Russia"A Brief Manual of the Si-Hia Characters with Tibetan Transcriptions" (1926)
Tangut Philology (1960)
Nie Hongyin 2013.jpg Niè Hóngyīn
聶鴻音 [22] 		b. 1954China"Study of the phonetic symbols used in the Pearl in the Palm" (1987)
"Tangutology During the Past Decades" (1993)
Xi Tian Long Xiong .jpg Nishida Tatsuo
西田龍雄 [23] 		1928–2012JapanStudy of the Hsi-Hsia Language (1964)
Language and Culture of the Tangut Kingdom (1997)
Niú Dáshēng
牛达生 [24] 		b. 1933ChinaThe Western Xia Square Pagoda at Baisigou (2005)
Research into Western Xia Coins (2013)
Shi Jinbo in 1961.jpg Shǐ Jīnbō
史金波 [25] 		b. 1940ChinaStudy of the Sea of Characters (1983)
Brief History of Buddhism in the Western Xia (1988)
Study of Western Xia Publishing (2004)
Tangut Language and Manuscripts: An Introduction 西夏文教程 (2013, English edition 2020)
The Economy of Western Xia: A Study of 11th to 13th Century Tangut Records 西夏经济文书研究 (2017, English edition 2021)
Mikhail Viktorovich Sofronov  [ fr ]
Михаи́л Ви́кторович Софро́нов [26] 		b. 1929RussiaGrammar of the Tangut Language (1968)
Kirill Solonin Hamburg 2015.jpg Kirill Iurʹevich Solonin
Кири́лл Ю́рьевич Соло́нин [27] 		b. 1969Russia"Hongzhou Buddhism in Xixia and the Heritage of Zongmi (780–841)" (2003)
"The Chan Teaching of Nanyang Huizhong (?-775) in Tangut Translation" (2012)
"The "Perfect Teaching" and Liao Sources of Tangut Chan Buddhism: A Study of Jiexing zhaoxin tu" (2013)
Sun Bojun 2013.jpg Sūn Bójūn
孫伯君 [28] 		b. 1966China"Sanskrit-Chinese phonetic transcriptions and the Northwest Chinese dialect in Tangut translations of sūtras" (2007)
Tai Chung-pui 2013.jpg Tai Chung-pui
戴忠沛 [29] 		b. 1977China (Hong Kong)"Collation of five newly seen Tangut fragments with Tibetan transcription" (2009)
Anatoly Pavlovich Terentev-Katansky
Анато́лий Па́влович Тере́нтьев-Ката́нский [30] 		1934–1998RussiaBook Publishing in the Tangut State (1981)
Sea of Characters (1969)
Wang Jingru 1964.jpg Wáng Jìngrú  [ zh ]
王静如 [31] 		1903–1990China"Notes on the Chinese and Tibetan transcriptions of the Hsi-hsia (Tangutan) language" (1930)
Research on the Western Xia (1933)
"Introduction to the Phonetic System of the Tangut Language" (1982)
Stuart N. Wolfenden 1889–1938USA"On the Tibetan Transcription of Si-Hia Words" (1931)
"On the Prefixes and Consonantal Finals of Si-Hia as evidenced by their Chinese and Tibetan transcriptions" (1934)
Viacheslav Petrovich Zaytsev
Вячесла́в Петро́вич За́йцев [32] 		b. 1976Russia"Re-examination of the Tangut Fragment Or. 12380/3495 from the Collection of the British Library" (2016)

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