List of Tangutologists

Tangutology is the academic study of Tangut people, their culture, religion, history, language and writing system.

List

Picture	Name	Dates	Nationality	Significant contributions
	Arakawa Shintarō 荒川慎太郎	b. 1971	Japan	"Tangut Rhyme Dictionary" (1997) Tangut-Russian-English-Chinese Dictionary (2006)
	Bái Bīn 白濱[1]	1936–2022	China	Study of the Sea of Characters (1983) Researches in Tangut History (1989)
	Mathieu Beaudouin	b. 1989	France	"Tangut and Horpa languages: Some morphosyntactic shared features" (2023)[2] Grammaire du tangoute. Phonologie et morphologie. PhD dissertation. (2023)[3] "Non-past and past verb stems in Tangut" (2024)[4]
	Anna Bernhardi	1868–1944	Germany	"Buddhistische Bilder aus der Glanzzeit der Tanguten" (1918)
	Stephen Wootton Bushell	1844–1908	UK	"The Hsi Hsia Dynasty of Tangut, their Money and Peculiar Script" (1895–1896) "The Tangut script in the Nan K'ou Pass" (1899)
	Gerard Clauson[5]	1891–1974	UK	Skeleton Dictionary of the Hsi-Hsia Language (1938–1963, manuscript published posthumously in 2016[6])
	Gabriel Devéria	1844–1899	France	"L'Écriture du Royaume de Si-Hia ou Tangout" (1898) "Stèle Si-hia de Leang-tcheou" (1898)[7]
	Ruth W. Dunnell	b. 1950	US	"The 1094 Sino-Tangut Gantong Stupa Stele Inscription of Wuwei" (1988) The Great State of White and High: Buddhism and State Formation in Eleventh-Century Xia (1996)
	Imre Galambos[8]	b. 1967	Hungary	"The Tangut translation of the General's Garden by Zhuge Liang" (2011) Translating Chinese Tradition and Teaching Tangut Culture (2015)
	Gong Hwang-cherng (Gōng Huángchéng) 龔煌城	1934–2010	Taiwan	"The phonological reconstruction of Tangut through examination of phonological alternations" (1989)
	Gōng Xūn 龔勳	b. 1990	China	"Uvulars and uvularization in Tangut phonology" (2020)[9]
	Eric Grinstead	1921–2008	New Zealand	The Tangut Tripitaka (1971) Analysis of the Tangut Script (1972)
	Hán Xiǎománg 韓小忙[10]	b. 1963	China	Dictionary of Tangut 西夏文词典 [9 vols.] (2021)
	Huáng Zhènhuá 黃振華[11]	1930–2003	China	Study of the Sea of Characters (1983) Researches in Tangut History (1989)
	Aleksei Ivanovich Ivanov Алексе́й Ива́нович Ивано́в	1878–1937	Russia	"Monuments de l'écriture tangout" (1920)
	Guillaume Jacques	b. 1979	France	"The origin of vowel alternations in the Tangut verb" (2009) "The structure of the Tangut verb" (2011) Esquisse de phonologie et de morphologie historique du tangoute (2014)
	Jiǎ Chángyè 賈常業[12]	b. 1954	China	Newly Compiled Dictionary of Tangut Characters (2013)
	Jǐng Yǒngshí 景永時[13]	b. 1959	China	Translations of books and articles by Russian Tangutologists Design of Tangut fonts
	Ksenia Borisovna Kepping Ксе́ния Бори́совна Ке́пинг[14]	1937–2002	Russia	Sea of Characters (1969) Sunzi in Tangut translation (1979) Morphology of the Tangut Language (1985) "Tangut Ritual Language" (1996)
	Vsevolod Sergeevich Kolokolov Все́волод Серге́евич Ко́локолов[15]	1896–1979	Russia	Chinese Classics in Tangut Translation (1966) Sea of Characters (1969)
	Luc Kwanten	1944–2021	Belgium	The Timely Pearl: A 12th Century Tangut-Chinese Glossary (1982) "The Phonological hypothesis of the Hsi Hsia [Tangut] Language," (1984) "Special Research Problems in Hsi Hsia [Tangut] History and Linguistics" (1985) "The Structure of the Tangut [Hsi Hsia] characters" (1989)
	Evgenij Ivanovich Kychanov Евге́ний Ива́нович Кыча́нов[16]	1932–2013	Russia	Chinese Classics in Tangut Translation (1966) Essay on the History of the Tangut State (1968) Sea of Characters (1969) Tangut-Russian-English-Chinese Dictionary' (2006)
	Romain Lefebvre[8]	b. 1981	France	L'imaginaire de l'autre : Étude et analyse de la réception du volume 41 de l'Avataṃsakasūtra en langue tangoute, conservé à l'Université de Pékin et à l'Institut des hautes études chinoises du Collège de France (2013)
	Lǐ Fànwén 李範文[17]	b. 1932	China	Study of the Homophones (1986) Tangut-Chinese Dictionary (1997, 2008)
	Lin Ying-chin (Lín Yīngjīn) 林英津[18]	b. 1955	Taiwan	Study of the Tangut translation of "Sunzi's Art of War" (1994)
	Luó Zhènyù 羅振玉[19]	1866–1940	China	Collection of Western Xia Official Seals (1927)
	Luó Fúchéng 羅福成[20]	1885–1960	China	Study of the Lotus Sutra in Tangut (1914)
	Luó Fúcháng 羅福萇[21]	1895–1921	China	Brief Explanation of the Western Xia Script (1914)
	Luó Fúyí 羅福頤[22]	1905–1981	China	Collected Study of Official Seals of the Western Xia (1982)
	Marc Miyake[8]	b. 1971	US	"Sketch of Pre-Tangut" (2012)
	Georges Morisse	d. 1910	France	"Contribution préliminaire à l'étude de l'écriture et de la langue si-hia" (1904) — study of the Tangut translation of the Saddharma Puṇḍarīka (Lotus Sutra).[23]
	Nikolai Aleksandrovich Nevsky Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Не́вский[24]	1892–1937	Russia	"A Brief Manual of the Si-Hia Characters with Tibetan Transcriptions" (1926) Tangut Philology (1960)
	Niè Hóngyīn 聶鴻音[25]	b. 1954	China	"Study of the phonetic symbols used in the Pearl in the Palm" (1987) "Tangutology During the Past Decades" (1993)
	Nishida Tatsuo 西田龍雄[26]	1928–2012	Japan	Study of the Hsi-Hsia Language (1964) Language and Culture of the Tangut Kingdom (1997)
	Niú Dáshēng 牛达生[27]	b. 1933	China	The Western Xia Square Pagoda at Baisigou (2005) Research into Western Xia Coins (2013)
	Shǐ Jīnbō 史金波[28]	b. 1940	China	Study of the Sea of Characters (1983) Brief History of Buddhism in the Western Xia (1988) Study of Western Xia Publishing (2004) Tangut Language and Manuscripts: An Introduction 西夏文教程 (2013, English edition 2020) The Economy of Western Xia: A Study of 11th to 13th Century Tangut Records 西夏经济文书研究 (2017, English edition 2021)
	Mikhail Viktorovich Sofronov [fr] Михаи́л Ви́кторович Софро́нов[29]	b. 1929	Russia	Grammar of the Tangut Language (1968)
	Kirill Iurʹevich Solonin Кири́лл Ю́рьевич Соло́нин[30]	b. 1969	Russia	"Hongzhou Buddhism in Xixia and the Heritage of Zongmi (780–841)" (2003) "The Chan Teaching of Nanyang Huizhong (?-775) in Tangut Translation" (2012) "The "Perfect Teaching" and Liao Sources of Tangut Chan Buddhism: A Study of Jiexing zhaoxin tu" (2013)
	Sūn Bójūn 孫伯君[31]	b. 1966	China	"Sanskrit-Chinese phonetic transcriptions and the Northwest Chinese dialect in Tangut translations of sūtras" (2007)
	Tai Chung-pui 戴忠沛[32]	b. 1977	China (Hong Kong)	"Collation of five newly seen Tangut fragments with Tibetan transcription" (2009)
	Anatoly Pavlovich Terentev-Katansky Анато́лий Па́влович Тере́нтьев-Ката́нский[33]	1934–1998	Russia	Book Publishing in the Tangut State (1981) Sea of Characters (1969)
	Wáng Jìngrú [zh] 王静如[34]	1903–1990	China	"Notes on the Chinese and Tibetan transcriptions of the Hsi-hsia (Tangutan) language" (1930) Research on the Western Xia (1933) "Introduction to the Phonetic System of the Tangut Language" (1982)
	Andrew West[35]	1960–2025	US	2012. "Musical Notation for Flute in Tangut Manuscripts". In Irina Fedorovna Popova (ed.), Тангуты в Центральной Азии: сборник статей в честь 80-летия проф. Е.И.Кычанова [Tanguts in Central Asia: a collection of articles marking the 80th anniversary of Prof. E. I. Kychanov] pp. 443–453. Moscow: Oriental Literature. ISBN 978-5-02-036505-6 2016. Gerard Clauson's Skeleton Tangut (Hsi Hsia) Dictionary: A facsimile edition. With an introduction by Imre Galambos. With Editorial notes and an Index by Andrew West. Prepared for publication by Michael Everson. Portlaoise: Evertype. ISBN 978-1-78201-167-5.
	Stuart N. Wolfenden	1889–1938	US	"On the Tibetan Transcription of Si-Hia Words" (1931) "On the Prefixes and Consonantal Finals of Si-Hia as evidenced by their Chinese and Tibetan transcriptions" (1934)
	Viacheslav Petrovich Zaytsev Вячесла́в Петро́вич За́йцев[36]	b. 1976	Russia	"Re-examination of the Tangut Fragment Or. 12380/3495 from the Collection of the British Library" (2016)

See also

• List of Khitanologists
• List of sinologists
• List of Tangut books