List of Tangut books
This list of Tangut books comprises a list of manuscript and xylograph texts that are written in the extinct Tangut language and Tangut script. These texts were mostly produced within the Western Xia state during the 12th and 13th centuries, and include Buddhist sutras and explanatory texts, dictionaries and other philological texts, as well as translations of Chinese books and some original Tangut texts. Some Tangut texts, particularly Buddhist sutras, continued to be produced during the Yuan Dynasty, after the fall of the Western Xia state, but the Tangut language became extinct sometime during the Ming Dynasty, and Tangut literature was only rediscovered in the early 20th century.
Most of the books listed here were discovered hidden in a stupa outside the city walls of the abandoned Western Xia fortress city of Khara-Khoto in Gansu by Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov during his expedition of 1907–1909. A lesser number of texts were recovered from Khara-Khoto by Aurel Stein during his expedition of 1913–1916. A large number of complete and fragmentary Tangut texts have also been discovered at various sites in Inner Mongolia, Ningxia and Gansu in China during the 20th and 21st centuries.
Buddhist texts
A very large number of Buddhist texts have been preserved. Yevgeny Kychanov's 1999 catalogue of Buddhist texts from Khara-Khoto held at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg lists 768 entries which cover 370 separate titles.| Image | Title | Copies | Notes |
| Auspicious Tantra of All-Reaching Union | Ningxia Institute of Archaeology, Ningxia N21:001–009 | Translation of a Tibetan Tantric Buddhist text and commentary. Found at Baisigou Square Pagoda, Ningxia in 1991, and thought to be the earliest extant example of a book printed using wooden movable type. | |
| Compassionate Flower Sutra | National Library of China B11:049 | Translation of the Compassionate Flower Sutra . | |
| The Dragon King of the Sea | British Library Or.12380/3621 | Translation of the short Buddhist text, The Question asked by the Dragon King of the Sea . | |
| Flower Garland Sutra | National Library of China B11:061–127 | Translation of the Flower Garland Sutra. | |
| Golden Light Sutra | National Library of China B11:024–041 | Translation of the Golden Light Sutra. | |
| Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra | IOM Tang.334 | Translation of the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra. | |
| Nirvana Sutra | IOM Tang.335 | Translation of the Nirvana Sutra . | |
| Wonderful Dharma Lotus Flower Sutra | IOM Tang.218 | Translation of the Lotus Sutra . | |
| Thousand Names of the Buddha of the Past | National Library of China B11:052 | Translation of the first part of the Three Thousand Names of the Buddha . | |
| Thousand Names of the Buddha of the Present | IOM Tang.194 National Library of China B11:047–48 | Translation of the middle part of the Three Thousand Names of the Buddha . | |
| Repentance Ritual of Great Compassion | IOM Tang.281 National Library of China B11:038–46 | Translation of the Repentance Ritual of Great Compassion. | |
| Twenty-Five Answers Concerning the Buddhist Principles | IOM | 25 questions asked by Buddhist monks, and answered by the State Preceptor Tangchang. Various editions are extant, some with commentaries. One edition was published in 1189. |
Dictionaries and philological works
| Image | Title | Copies | Notes |
| Pearl in the Palm | IOM Tang.13 | Bilingual Chinese-Tangut glossary with pronunciations of Chinese words in Tangut characters and pronunciations of Tangut words in Chinese characters. | |
| Sea of Writing | IOM Tang.14 and Tang.15 | Monolingual Tangut rime dictionary, comprising one volume of level tone characters, one volume of rising tone characters, and one volume of "mixed category" characters. | |
| Precious Rhymes of the Sea of Characters | IOM | Manuscript copy of an edition of the Sea of Characters rime dictionary. | |
| Homophones | IOM Tang.18 | Phonological text that lists Tangut characters that are homophones of each other. | |
| Combined Edition of Homophones and Sea of Characters | IOM British Library,, | Combined edition of the Homophones and the Sea of Characters. | |
| Synonyms | IOM Tang.24 Ningxia Institute of Archaeology, Ningxia K2:157, K2:286 | List of Tangut words ordered according to synonym groups. | |
| Essential Selection of Often Transmitted Homonyms and Mixed Characters | Private ownership | List of Tangut characters ordered according to homonym groups. | |
| Dissected Rhymes of the Five Sounds | IOM Tang.22 | Phonological text that gives tables of fanqie pronunciations for Tangut characters. | |
| Miscellaneous Characters | IOM Tang.19 | Classified lists of Tangut words. | |
| Newly Collected Grains of Gold or Golden Guide | IOM Tang.30 British Library | Poem comprising 200 five-character lines, in total 1,000 Tangut characters, each used a single time only; intended for use as a primer for teaching Tangut characters, in the same way that the Thousand Character Classic was used to teach Chinese characters. |
Original Tangut texts
| Image | Title | Copies | Notes |
| The Sea of Meanings, Established by the Saints | IOM Tang.32 | A leishu encyclopaedic book in 15 vols., with topics arranged by category. | |
| Revised and Newly Endorsed Law Code for the Celestial Prosperity Era | IOM Tang.55 | The Western Xia law codes as established during the Celestial Prosperity era, in 20 vols. | |
| Ode Great Ode Ode on Monthly Pleasures Ode on Reason Ode on Cleverness | IOM Tang.25 | A collection of five poems written in ritual Tangut language. Ode on Monthly Pleasures was printed in 1185. | |
| Newly Assembled Precious Dual Maxims | IOM Tang.35 | Collection of Tangut two-part proverbs, published in 1187. |
Translations of Chinese texts
| Image | Title | Copies | Notes |
| The General's Garden | British Library | Translation of a Chinese military text, The General's Garden ascribed to Zhuge Liang. | |
| The Art of War | IOM Tang.6 | Translation of a Chinese military text, The Art of War ascribed to Sun Tzu. | |
| Newly Collected Biographies of Affection and Filial Piety | IOM Tang.31 | By Cao Daole. Translation of biographies of virtuous people from history, mostly derived from Family Models 家范 by Sima Guang. | |
| The Forest of Categories | IOM Tang.11 | An encyclopaedic collection of stories. | |
| Analects | IOM Tang.2 | Translation of the Analects of Confucius, with commentary. | |
| Mencius | IOM Tang.3 IOM Tang.4 | Translation of the Mencius, one edition with commentary. | |
| Newly Translated Book of Filial Piety with Commentary | IOM Tang.1 | Translation of the Confucian text, Classic of Filial Piety, with commentary. |