The Buddhāvataṃsaka Literature in Old Uyghur

Edited by Abdurishid Yakup

Book cover: The Buddhāvataṃsaka Literature in Old Uyghur

Extent: 536 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Buddhist Studies, Literary Studies

Series: Berliner Turfantexte

Series volume number: 44

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(March 2021)

ISBN: 9782503584188

Price: $113.00

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This volume presents an edition of the Buddhāvataṃsaka literature in Old Uyghur mainly focusing on the fragments of the Buddhāvataṃsaka sūtra in eighty volumes and the Buddhāvataṃsaka sūtra 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 Buddhāvataṃsaka sūtra in fourty volumes by the famous Old Uyghur translator and poet Anzang, fragments of a commentary to the Buddhāvataṃsaka sūtra and other texts which can be classified to the Buddhāvataṃsaka literature.

  • Edited by Abdurishid Yakup