Buddhistische Erzählungen aus dem alten Zentralasien : Edition der altuigurischen Daśakarmapathāvadānamālā / Jens Wilkens.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilkens, Jens, translator, editor, writer of added commentary.

Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Akademienvorhaben Turfanforschung, issuing body.

Class of 1932 Fund.

Series:

Berliner Turfantexte ; 37.

Berliner Turfantexte / Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Akademievorhaben Turfanforschung ; XXXVII

Language:

German

Indo-European (Other)

Uighur

Subjects (All):

Tripiṭaka. Sūtrapiṭaka. Avadāna. Daśakarmapathāvadānamālā--Translations into German.

Tripiṭaka.

Tripiṭaka. Sūtrapiṭaka. Avadāna. Daśakarmapathāvadānamālā--Criticism, Textual.

Tripiṭaka. Sūtrapiṭaka. Avadāna.

Buddhist literature, Uighur--Criticism, Textual.

Buddhist literature, Uighur.

Uighur language--Texts.

Uighur language.

Tokharian language--Translations into Uighur--History and criticism.

Tokharian language.

Criticism, Textual.

Genre:

Texts.

Physical Description:

3 volumes (1511 pages, 171 unnumbered pages of plates) : 250 facsimiles ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2016]

Language Note:

Includes transliterated text in Old Uighur with German translation.

Summary:

This is a study of a scripture translated into Old Uyghur from Tocharian A and counted as one of the earliest Uyghur Buddhist texts. The Buddhist collection of stories entitled Daśakarmapathāvadānamālā ("garland of legends pertaining to the ten courses of action") is the most important narrative work of Buddhist Central Asia as it is not only attested in Old Uyghur (the best preserved version) but also in Tocharian A and B as well as in Sogdian. Volumes one and two present the reconstructed text in Old Uyghur in transcription (more than 12,500 lines) and facing German translation accompanied by a philological commentary and 250 illustrations of joint fragments. The third volume contains a glossary and the transliterations. The text is a treasure trove of Buddhist jātakas (stories of former lives of the Buddha) and avadānas (heroic deeds) sometimes told in variants unknown from other Buddhist works. In addition, it contains instructions referring to Buddhist ethics. Next to the Maitrisimit, the Daśakarmapathāvadānamālā is the second fundamental text translated from Tocharian A and is thus of major importance for Tocharian studies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

Contains:

Container of: Tripiṭaka. Sūtrapiṭaka. Avadāna. Daśakarmapathāvadānamālā. German.

Container of: Tripiṭaka. Sūtrapiṭaka. Avadāna. Daśakarmapathāvadānamālā. Uighur.

ISBN:

9782503567761

2503567762

9782503567730

2503567738

9782503567747

2503567746

9782503567754

2503567754

OCLC:

957391698