It just so happened that I alsoknew there were some Tunhuang manuscripts at the Institute in Leningrad. For me this first hand research was much more fascinating than third hand theorizing, so I decided to make Tunhuang pien-wen the subject of myfinal doctoral thesis.
偶然間我又知道東方所就藏有敦煌抄本，對我而言，第一手資料的研究一向比各種經過再三闡述的理論迷人，因此就決定要以一部敦煌變文做為博士論文題目。