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The subject of the present study is above all to try to define the real nature of a Chinese document which has come down to us in two fragmentary manuscript copies now included in the Stein Collection of Chinese MSS. in the British Library. S. 2658, the shorter of the two MSS., has been known to scholars since 1927 thanks to Yabuki Keiki who provided a printed commented edition of it in his famous work on the School of the Three Stages. The other manuscript copy, S. 6502, which is much longer than S.2658, has only recently received some attention and was as yet unpublished.
It appeared evident from the start that this was a document of political propaganda issued about the end of the seventh century A. D. and considerable efforts were made in order to establish the date of its composition and to identify its authors. However, because of a series of misunderstandings, the document has not yet been "recognized" far what it really is.
