“敦煌学”一词的术语化过程

The Process of Creating the Term “Dunhuang Studies”

石滨纯太郎、陈寅恪分别独立提出敦煌学一词,但该词在1950年之前的日本学术界并未发展成为公认的术语。敦煌学一词的术语化过程实际上主要由中国学者在20世纪40年代推动完成,并作为学科名被最终确立下来。

The term ＂Dunhuang Studies,＂ respectively proposed by Japanese scholar Ishihama Juntaro and Chinese scholar Chen Yinke, had not been an accepted term in Japanese academia before 1950. This terming was mainly advanced by Chinese scholars and finally established as a term for a new discipline of study in the 1940s.