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Uygur Buddhist Literature

Author : Johan Elverskog
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Uygur Buddhist Literature written by Johan Elverskog and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume of the Silk Roads Studies is a reference manual of the published Uygur Buddhist literature. Uygur Buddhist Literature creates a complete inventory of the published Uygur Buddhist texts along with a bibliography of the pertinent scholarlyliterature. The work includes an introduction that outlines the history of the discovery of the Uygur Buddhist Literature and a short history of the Buddhist Uygurs and their translation activities. The survey of the literature itself is divided into six sections: (1) Non-Mahayana Texts, including Sutra, Vinaya, Abhidarma, Biographies of the Buddha (including Jatakas) and Avadana; (2) Mahayana Sutras; (3) Commentaries; (4) Chinese Apocrypha; (5) Tantric Texts (6) Other Buddhist Works. Included under each title of a text is a brief synopsis of the text and an explanation of the Uygur manuscript, including where known: origin of translation, the translator and the place of translation, the place it was found, and any other interesting points. After this brief survey of the manuscript, the signature of the manuscript with references to the editions of the text is provided as well as additional references to the secondary literature. The survey concludes with an index to titles, translators, scribes and sponsors. This manual is an essential tool not only for specialists in the field of Altaic, especially Turcological or Monogolian, Iranological, Sinological or Buddhological Studies, but is also written for a larger public of students interested in Asian religions and cultural history in general. This book provides in a systematic and exhaustive way the most recent information on the places where the documents are kept, a synopsis of the text, editions and secondary literature.

Prajñāpāramitā Literature in Old Uyghur

Author : Abdurishid Yakup
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503528885
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (288 download)

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Download or read book Prajñāpāramitā Literature in Old Uyghur written by Abdurishid Yakup and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seven texts edited in this volume give new insights into the Prajnaparamita literature in Old Uyghur, an important corpus of Old Uyghur Buddhist texts. The volume presents each text with a transcription, transliteration and translation into English on facing pages. Besides the general introduction it also includes an extensive introduction to each text, philological and Buddhological notes, a complete glossary with Chinese counterparts and facsimiles of selected fragments. The volume also makes available for the first time an extensive edition of three important Buddhist texts, namely the Diamond Sutra, the Heart Sutra and the fragments of various commentaries. Master Fu's verse commentary both with and without the sutra text is considerably enlarged, including a large number of new fragments which were identified after the publication of the Berliner Turfantexte I. The original materials serving as the basis of this edition are mainly from the Turfan Collection in Berlin; it also includes six fragments from the Otani Collection in Kyoto, three fragments from the Turfan Museum, two fragments from the St. Petersburg Collection, one fragment from the Bibliotheque nationale de France and one fragment from the British Library.

A History of Uyghur Buddhism

Author : Johan Elverskog
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231560699
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book A History of Uyghur Buddhism written by Johan Elverskog and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, most Uyghurs are Muslims. For centuries, however, Uyghurs were Buddhists. By around 1000 CE, they, like many of their neighbors, had decisively turned toward the Dharma, and a golden age of Uyghur Buddhism flourished under the Mongol empire. Dwelling along the Silk Road in what is now northwestern China, they stood at the center of Buddhist Eurasia, linking far-flung regions and traditions. But as Muslim power grew, Uyghur Buddhists converted to Islam, rewriting their past and erasing their Buddhist history. This book presents the first comprehensive history of Buddhism among the Uyghurs from the ninth to the seventeenth century. Johan Elverskog traces how the Uyghurs forged their distinctive tradition, considering a variety of social, political, cultural, and religious contexts. He argues that the religious history of the Uyghurs challenges conventional narratives of the meeting of Buddhism and Islam, showing that conversion took place gradually and was driven by factors such as geopolitics, climate change, and technological innovation. Elverskog also provides a nuanced understanding of lived Buddhism, focusing on ritual practices and materiality as well as the religion’s entanglements with economics, politics, and violence. A groundbreaking history of Uyghur Buddhism, this book makes a compelling case for the importance of the Uyghurs in shaping the course of both Buddhist and Asian history.

Uygur Patronage in Dunhuang

Author : Lilla Russell-Smith
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047415698
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Uygur Patronage in Dunhuang written by Lilla Russell-Smith and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is about the long-neglected, but decisive influence of Uygur patrons on Dunhuang art in the tenth and eleventh centuries. Through an insightful introduction to the hitherto little-known early history and art of the Uygurs, the author explains the social and political forces that shaped the taste of Uygur patrons. The cultural and political effects of Sino-Uygur political marriages are examined in the larger context of the role of high-ranking women in medieval art patronage. Careful study of the iconography, technique and style sheds new light on important paintings in the collection of the British Museum in London, and the Musée national des Arts asiatiques-Guimet, in Paris, and through comparative analysis the importance of regional art centres in medieval China and Central Asia is explored. Richly illustrated with line drawings, as well as colour and black-and-white plates.

Aspects of Research Into Central Asian Buddhism

Author : Peter Zieme
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Aspects of Research Into Central Asian Buddhism written by Peter Zieme and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Peter Zieme, 'Preface'; Peter Zieme et alii, 'Kogi Kudara, A Bibliography'; Geng Shimin, 'Study on the Uighur Text abitaki (3)'; Harry Haln, 'Mannerheim and the French expedition of Paul Pelliot'; Gyrgy Kara, 'Uygur Verbs of Compassion'; Yukiyo Kasai, 'Die uigurische berlieferung der Legende von der Grndung des Tempels Baimasi'; Koichi Kitsudo, 'Supplements to Uighur Agama fragments'; Robert Kritzer, 'Dar antika and Sautrantika in the Abhidharmadipa'; Kogi Kudara (edited by Juten Oda), 'On an Uigur Pustaka book of the Buddhist text Bayangjing from the grotto 181 of Dunhuang in the Paris Collection'; Dai Matsui, 'A Mongolian Decree from the Chaghataid Khanate Discovered at Dunhuang'; Dieter Maue, 'The equanimity of the Tatha gata'; Takao Moriyasu, 'Chronology of West Uighur Buddhism: Re-examination of the Dating of the Wall-paintings in the Grnwedel Cave No. 8 (New: No. 18), Bezeklik'; Mehmet lmez, 'Alttrkische Etymologien (2)'; Simone-Christiane Raschmann & Ablet Semet, 'Neues zur alttrkischen "Geschichte von der hungrigen Tigerin"'; Christiane Reck, 'Ein Kreuz zum Andenken. Die Katalogisierung der buddhistischen soghdischen Fragmente der Berliner Turfansammlung'; Klaus Rhrborn, 'ber die Genese der deadjektivischen Abstrakta des Trkischen'; Klaus T. Schmidt, T'HT 107 "Die Speisung des Bodhisattva vor der Erleuchtung." Die westtocharische Version im Vergleich mit der Sanskritfassung der Mulasarvasti vadins'; Osman F. Sertkaya & Dai Matsui, 'On a "silver" document'; Masahiro Shogaito, 'Uighur Abhidharmakosabhaya-ika Tattvartha preserved in China'; Jonathan Silk, 'Forbidden Women'; Werner Sundermann, 'Ananda enters into the Buddha's service. Edition of a Sogdian fragment from theMahayana Mahaparinirvaa-sutra'; Alos van Tongerloo, 'The Apocalyptic Manic

Uyghurs and Uyghur Identity

Author : Dolkun Kamberi, Ph. D
Publisher : Radio Free Asia
ISBN 13 : 1632180685
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Uyghurs and Uyghur Identity written by Dolkun Kamberi, Ph. D and published by Radio Free Asia. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeological excavations and historical records show that Uyghur-land is the most important repository of Uyghur and Central Asian treasures.This publication gives the reader a full description of Uyghur cultural identity.

The Turfan Dialect of Uyghur

Author : Abdurishid Yakup
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447052337
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book The Turfan Dialect of Uyghur written by Abdurishid Yakup and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2005 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a synchronic description of the phonology, morphology and lexicon of a local variety of modern Uyghur, which is mainly spoken in Turfan, one of the famous ancient cultural centres in the Silk Road. It includes three descriptive chapters, a rather large corpus of texts and a dialect vocabulary. Descriptive chapters focus mainly on actual and uniform phonological, morphological and lexical features distinguishing this local dialect from the standard form and other regional varieties of modern Uyghur, whereas the text part provides a comprehensive and reliable linguistic sample of all possible regional varieties of the Turfan dialect and presents a corpus of oral history and folk literature of the Turfan region, reflecting ethnological and geographical peculiarities of the local settlements. All data are given in International Phonetic Alphabet together with a direct translation as well as with linguistic and extra-linguistic explanations.

Emerging from Darkness

Author : Paul Mirecki
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004439722
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Emerging from Darkness written by Paul Mirecki and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern interpretation of the Manichaean religious tradition requires a firm foundation in the sober and meticulous reconstruction of highly fragmentary sources. The studies collected in this volume contribute to such a foundation by bringing new primary texts to the public for the first time, extracting new data from previously known sources, and defining and delimiting important but previously neglected sets of material. The studies are authored by an international group of leading scholars in the fields of ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern studies, comparative religion, early Christianity, patristics, art history, Turkic studies and Coptology. The textual and art historical materials examined possess distinctive histories, character and significance representing the broad geographical range of Manichaeism from Algeria to China. By elucidating these essential remains of the Manichaean religion, the comprehensive treatments contained in Emerging from Darkness provide a provocative picture of Manichaeism as a diverse and productive tradition in a variety of settings and media. The volume will be foundational for future scholarly studies on the sources presented and for studies in Manichaeism and late antique religions in general.

Tʼang Transformation Texts

Author : Victor H. Mair
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
ISBN 13 : 9780674868151
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Tʼang Transformation Texts written by Victor H. Mair and published by Harvard Univ Asia Center. This book was released on 1989 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most comprehensive study of pien-wen ("transformation texts" i.e., tales of metamorphosis) in any language since the manuscripts were discovered at the beginning of this century in a remote cave complex in northwest China. They are the earliest written vernacular narratives in China and are thus extremely important in the history of Chinese language and literature. Numerous scholarly controversies have surrounded the study of the texts in the last three quarters of a century; this volume seeks to resolve some of them--the extent, origins, and formal characteristics of the texts, the meaning of pien wen, the identity of the authors who composed these popular narratives and the scribes who copied them, the relationship of the texts to oral performance, and the reasons for the apparently sudden demise of the genre around the beginning of the Sung dynasty. This is a multi-disciplinary study that integrates findings from religious, literary, linguistic, sociological, and historical materials, carried out with intellectual rigor. It includes an extensive bibliography of relevant sources in many languages.

Ancient Heritage of Täklimakan: Uyghur Urbiculture

Author : Dolkun Kamberi, PhD
Publisher : Radio Free Asia
ISBN 13 : 1632180790
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Heritage of Täklimakan: Uyghur Urbiculture written by Dolkun Kamberi, PhD and published by Radio Free Asia. This book was released on 2016-02-27 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ancient Heritage of Täklimakan and Uyghur Urbiculture, Dr. Dolkun Kamberi helps readers understand the Taklimakan was the main region through which the ancient Silk-Road had to pass. Discoveries many ancient heritages, cities sites, richness, and diversity of Uyghur literature provide a great deal of information regarding the early Uyghur civilization. The increasing role archaeology has played in aiding experts in constructing a chronology of Uyghur urbiculture using unearthed Uyghur manuscripts, medieval travelers’ accounts, and historical heritage of well-developed Uyghur literature.

Uyghurs and Uyghur Identity

Author : Dolkun Kamberi, Ph. D
Publisher : Radio Free Asia
ISBN 13 : 1632180677
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Uyghurs and Uyghur Identity written by Dolkun Kamberi, Ph. D and published by Radio Free Asia. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeological excavations and historical records show that Uyghur-land is the most important repository of Uyghur and Central Asian treasures.This publication allows readers to get a full understanding of Uyghur cultural identity.

The Buddhāvataṃsaka Literature in Old Uyghur

Author : Abdurishid Yakup
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782503584188
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book The Buddhāvataṃsaka Literature in Old Uyghur written by Abdurishid Yakup and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents an edition of the Buddhavatamsaka literature in Old Uyghur mainly focusing on the fragments of the Buddhavatamsaka sutra in eighty volumes and the Buddhavatamsaka sutra in fourty volumes kept in the Berlin Turfan collection in close consultation of the fragments of both texts kept in Dunhuang, Kyoto, St. Petersburg and Taibei. It also includes an edition of other Old Uyghur texts, e.g. verse composition and verse translation of the last chapter of the Buddhavatamsaka sutra in forty volumes by the famous Old Uyghur translator and poet Anzang, fragments of a commentary to the Buddhavatamsaka sutra and other texts which can be classified to the Buddhavatamsaka literature.

Chinese Buddhist Texts

Author : Graham Lock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138953321
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Buddhist Texts written by Graham Lock and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence of Buddhism on the Chinese language, on Chinese literature and on Chinese culture in general cannot be overstated, and the language of most Chinese Buddhist texts differs considerably from both Classical and Modern Chinese. This reader aims to help students develop familiarity with features of Buddhist texts in Chinese, including patterns of organization, grammatical features and specialized vocabulary. It also aims to familiarize students with the use of a range of resources necessary for becoming independent readers of such texts. Chinese Buddhist Texts is suitable for students who have completed the equivalent of at least one year�s college level study of Modern Chinese and are familiar with roughly one thousand of the commonest Chinese characters. Previous study of Classical Chinese would be an advantage, but is not assumed. It is an ideal textbook for students taking relevant courses in Chinese studies programs and in Buddhist studies programs. However, it is also possible for a student to work through the reader on his or her own. Further online resources are available at: lockgraham.com

The Jewel Translucent Sūtra

Author : Johan Elverskog
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004420347
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Jewel Translucent Sūtra written by Johan Elverskog and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-fledged critical edition and historical study of the Erdeni Tunumal Sudur, the Mongolian history of Altan Khan and his descendants, offering a full-range English-written historical and literary evaluation of this unique and fairly reliable, but long neglected discovery in Mongolian studies. With transcription, word index and English translation, as well as extensive commentary on the historical events of Altan Khan’s reign, especially the 1550 attack on Beijing, the 1571 peace accord with the Ming, and the 1578 meeting with the Dalai Lama and the subsequent Buddhist conversion. In particular, the author shows how Altan Khan’s reformulation of the boundaries of Dayan Khan’s Mongol nation and state catalyzed the political fragmentation of the Mongols with dire consequences in relation to the rising Manchu state. Vital for a better understanding of Mongol history during the late Ming.

After Many Autumns

Author : John B. Gill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789382017004
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book After Many Autumns written by John B. Gill and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Xinjiang Conflict

Author : Arienne M. Dwyer
Publisher : East-West Center
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Xinjiang Conflict written by Arienne M. Dwyer and published by East-West Center. This book was released on 2005 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meticulous renderings depict 9 dolls and 46 authentic costumes, including work clothes, winter wear, wedding outfits, more. Broad-brimmed, elaborately decorated hats and leg o' mutton sleeves for the women, derbies, walking canes, starched collars for the men. Descriptive notes.

Qarakhanid Roads to China

Author : Dilnoza Duturaeva
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004510338
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Qarakhanid Roads to China written by Dilnoza Duturaeva and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Qarakhanid Roads to China reconsiders the diplomacy, trade and geography of transcontinental networks between Central Asia and China from the 10th to the 12th centuries and challenges the concept of “the Silk Road crisis” in the period between the fall of the Tang Dynasty and the rise of the Mongols. Utilizing a broad range of Islamic and Chinese primary sources together with archaeological data, Dilnoza Duturaeva demonstrates the complexity of interaction along the Silk Roads and beyond that, revolutionizes our understanding of the Qarakhanid world and Song-era China’s relations with neighboring regions.