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This is the first edition of the Old Uyghur Buddhist texts with elements in Brahmi script. 0This is a comprehensive edition of the Old Uyghur texts from the Berlin Turfan Collection that contain Brahmi elements. Amongst the Old Uyghur texts preserved in the Berlin Turfan Collection, a number are written mainly in Uyghur script but combined with elements written in Brahmi script. Although these texts are of various content, they have in common that they all belong to Buddhist literature. The Brahmi script was used for several purposes, but mostly to render Buddhist Sanskrit terminology or short Sanskrit sentences. Most of the Old Uyghur texts with Brahmi elements were written on the verso side of Chinese Buddhist scrolls. Through the identification of the Chinese text on the recto side many smaller fragments could be joined and put together to larger leaves. The dating of the manuscripts is a general problem in the research on Old Uyghur texts. In the texts with Brahmi elements mostly the cursive variant of the Uyghur script was used, which means that most of them must have been written in the Mongolian period (13th-14th c.). The Old Uyghur texts with Brahmi elements have never before been investigated systematically. Giving an overview of the contents of the texts, this book is the first complete edition of the Old Uyghur texts with Brahmi elements.

Buddhism --- History

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"The ERC-funded research project BuddhistRoad aims to create a new framework to enable understanding of the complexities in the dynamics of cultural encounter and religious transfer in pre-modern Eastern Central Asia. Buddhism was one major factor in this exchange: for the first time the multi-layered relationships between the trans-regional Buddhist traditions (Chinese, Indian, Tibetan) and those based on local Buddhist cultures (Khotanese, Uyghur, Tangut, Khitan) will be explored in a systematic way. The first volume Buddhism in Central Asia (Part I): Patronage, Legitimation, Sacred Space, and Pilgrimage is based on the start-up conference held on May 23rd-25th, 2018, at CERES, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) and focuses on the first two of altogether six thematic topics to be dealt with in the project, namely on "patronage and legitimation strategy" as well as "sacred space and pilgrimage."--

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Colophons of Uighur Buddhist manuscripts, selected and annotated.

Colophons --- Buddhist literature, Uighur --- Da zang jin --- 091 =943 --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Turks --- 091 =943 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Turks --- Buddhism --- Colophons of manuscripts --- Manuscripts, Uighur --- Uighur manuscripts --- Manuscripts --- Uighur Buddhist literature --- Uighur literature --- Buddha and Buddhism --- Lamaism --- Ris-med (Lamaism) --- Religions --- History --- Da zang jing --- 大藏经 --- Ta tsang ching --- Zhonghua da zang jing --- Tripiṭaka (Chinese version) --- Chinese Buddhist canon --- 大藏經 --- Dàzàngjīng --- Da zangjing --- Chinese Tripiṭaka

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This volume is the first to attempt a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary analysis of the manuscript cultures implementing the pothi manuscript form (a loosely bound stack of oblong folios). It is the indigenous form by which manuscripts have been crafted in South Asia and the cultural areas most influenced by it, that is to say Central and South East Asia. The volume focuses particularly on the colophons featured in such manuscripts presenting a series of essays enabling the reader to engage in a historical and comparative investigation of the links connecting the several manuscript cultures examined here. Colophons as paratexts are situated at the intersection between texts and the artefacts that contain them and offer a unique vantage point to attain global appreciation of their manuscript cultures and literary traditions. Colophons are also the product of scribal activities that have moved across regions and epochs alongside the pothi form, providing a common thread binding together the many millions of pothis still today found in libraries in Asia and the world over. These contributions provide a systematic approach to the internal structure of colophons, i.e. their ‘syntax’, and facilitate a vital, comparative approach.

LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic. --- India. --- colophon. --- manuscript. --- syntax.

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