Buddhāvataṃsaka literature in old Uyghur / Abdurishid Yakup.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abudurexiti Yakufu, author.

Series:

Berliner Turfantexte ; 44.

Berliner Turfantexte, 0138-4228 ; XLIV

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hua yan Buddhism--Doctrines--Early works to 1800.

Hua yan Buddhism.

Hua yan Buddhism--Doctrines.

Physical Description:

506 pages, 26 pages of plates : color illustrations ; 30 x 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2021]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction

2. Texts: Transcription, translation, commentary and transliteration

Text A The Buddhavatamsaka-sutra in eighty volumes

Text B The Buddhavatamsaka-sutra in forty volumes

Text C Alliterative verse translation of the Samantahhadracaryd-pranidhana

Text D Praises of the ten virtues of Samantabhadra composed by Anzang

Text E A verse illustration of the practice of the ten Vows of Samantabhadra

Text F A Fragment of an unknown commentary to the Buddhdvatamsaka-sutra in eighty volumes

Text G Invocation of the bodhisattvas in the `Repentance Ritual on the Platform of Ocean-like Samadhi from the Buddhavatamsaka-sutra'

3. Glossary

4. Abbreviations

5. Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9782503584188

2503584187

OCLC:

1205590433

Publisher Number:

9782503584188