XXX Международный конгресс ИИСАА. 19–21 июня 2019 г. Т. 1

Секция I 60 XXX Международный Конгресс по источниковедению и историографии стран Азии и Африки probably block-printed several times (at least two editions of Sitātapatrā-dhāraṇī are known) in large quantities—up to several thousand copies. Blockprints of other texts like Jātaka stories, Suvarṇaprabhāsosattama sūtra, Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā and various Chinese apocrypha are found more rarely. The preserved colophons of the Old Uygur blockprints give more historical background data to speculate. According to the mentioned information, they were manufactured in the capital of the Mongol Empire Dadu (Chin. 大都 ) under the patronage of the emperor’s family members. They also mention the donators, initiators of printing as well as its reasons and aims. Moreover, the preserved colophons of the blockprints in Tibetan and Chinese allow to suppose that the production of the Old Uygur blockprints was ‘incorporated’ in a large ‘project’ of publishing Buddhist literature in the languages used in the Mongolian era. Thus, the preserved colophon of the Tibetan version of so called ‘Big dipper sūtra’ informs that the text was gradually translated into Chinese, Mongolian, Old Uygur and finally Tibetan languages. The paper will focus on the blockprtints kept in the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, RAS (IOM, RAS) with some references to the similar ones preserved in the Berlin collection. Melanie Wood (Zayed University Library, Dubai, UAE) Emirates Collection of Zayed University Library, United Arab Emirates Local history research is important at each campus of Zayed University, in Dubai andAbu Dhabi. The students of Zayed University are primarily Emirati nationals, and aside from having an interest in their history and need for current information about the United Arab Emirates there is a required course of Emirates Studies. The UAE became a country in 1971, from the previous Trucial States, the time before nationhood is also part of the class. Emirates Studies students need to explore materials related to topics that have built the region and sustained the livelihood of the nation ranging from the records of ancient tribes to rise of the early trucial states, from information about the falaj water channel systems, or economic information about pearl diving and fishing, to the contemporary topics of sustainable architecture and ecological tourism. The large selection ofmaterials that are available in print and electronically are located in our special collections on each campus: Emirates Collection Dubai and Emirates Collection Abu Dhabi. Depending on the material, the minimum we would order of a monograph related to UAE interest (history, culture, etc.) would be one circulating copy for each campus and one non-circulating copy for each campus, for a total of four copies. Depending on the price and availability of any UAE related material, we would try to buy more circulating copies. If a popular UAE material becomes out of print, or if all