A HISTORY OF ONE UNREALIZED PUBLICATION: CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN ACADEMICIAN BYAMBYN RINCHEN AND DR. REGBI PUBAEV

DOI 10.31554/2222-9175-2018-32-99-114

A HISTORY OF ONE UNREALIZED PUBLICATION: CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN ACADEMICIAN BYAMBYN RINCHEN AND DR. REGBI PUBAEV

Garri I. R., Badmaeva L. D.

The article publishes thirteen letters between academician Byambyn Rinchen and Dr. Regbi Pubaev during  1967–1971. The  main  content  of  the  correspondence  is  the  translation  of the  “Records of the Buddhist Kingdoms” by the Chinese Buddhist monk Fa Xian from French into Mongolian vertical script, made by the first Buryat scholar Dorzhi Banzarov. An introduction to the correspondence shows the issue’s history and its importance for the Mongolian Studies.