Qing Duan Author

Professor Qing Duan (1953-2022), a distinguished Boya Chair Professor at Peking University, has dedicated her career to teaching and rigorously investigating Middle Iranian languages, Sanskrit, Pali, and Gandhari. Internationally renowned, her scholarly achievements are especially significant in the fields of Indology, Buddhist studies, Silk Road manuscript research, and the study of Sanskrit palm-leaf manuscripts.Her previous works includes the publication of An Introduction to Pāṇini’s Grammar (2001), Khotan, Buddhism, and Ancient Manuscripts (2013), Xiyu Documents in the National Library of China: Khotanese Volume (I) (2015), Kharoṣṭhī Correspondence in the Qinghai Tibetan Medicine Culture Museum (2016) and so on.