The ’Ba’-rom-pa subsect of the Tibetan Buddhist Bka'-brgyud-pa sect played an instrumental role in establishing the cult of Mahākāla at the court of the last Tangut emperors. The cult was a major ...

Most of these documents are written in the Tangut script and include numerous Buddhist scriptures. Fortunately, researchers uncovered a bilingual Chinese-Tangut glossary among the materials.

The paper discusses the Tangut translation of the famous Entry into Two Truths. This composition by Atiśa (982-1054) was important in the formation of the doctrinal system of the Tangut Buddhism. The ...