Jorgensen (2008: 596) thinks that the texts were combined into a book in Dūnhuáng, since at the end of the 8th century a disciple of Shénhuì by the name of Móhēyán 摩訶衍 (‘Mahāyāna’) tried to harmonize the teachings of ‘Northern’ and ‘Southern’ Schools. Manuscript P.2045 contains the three Shénhuì texts in the same order and it is generally assumed that the texts were written about the same time, during the period when Dūnhuáng was under the Tibetan administration.13 Zhōu Shàoliáng (1999: 1) points out that the paper of Dūnbó 77 is not typical for the Dūnhuáng area but thicker than usual. He suggests that the copy was not produced at Dūnhuáng but came from a more humid place in the southern region of China.14
I mean... that's a wild time right there...
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