The Uighur Abhidharmakosabhasya

preserved at the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm

edited by Masahiro Shogaito

Book cover: The Uighur Abhidharmakosabhasya

Extent: 338 pages

Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag

Subjects: Asian/Pacific Studies & Religions

Series: Turcologica

Series volume number: 99

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(December 2014)

ISBN: 9783447102049

6.65 x 9.45 inches

Price: $95.00

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The Abhidharmakosabha?ya, preserved at the Ethnographic Museum in Stockholm, is the second longest Abhidharma text in Uighur. The important Buddhist text was written in Sanskrit by Vasubandhu and translated into Chinese by Zhen Di (499-569 AD) and Xuan Zang (602-664 AD). Later during the Yuan Dynasty the text was translated from Chinese to Uighur on the basis of Xuan Zang’s version of the original Sanskrit text. Masahiro Shogaito examines the Uighur version of the Abhidharmakosabha?ya and provides the Uighur text in transcription and the English translation with the corresponding Chinese text on opposite pages. The volume contains additional commentaries, a glossary and the original manuscripts as facsimiles.

Preface I Introduction 1. The Uighur Abhidharma texts 2. The Uighur version of the Abhidharmakosabhasya 3. The Stockholm text of the Abhidharmakosabhasya 3.1 Contents 3.2 Colophon 3.3 Comparison of the Uighur text with the Chinese text in the opening sections 3.4 Characteristics of the Uighur translation 3.4.1 Frameworks of 'question and answer' 3.4.2 The Chinese text which the Uighur translation was based on 3.4.3 Phrases including the specific person and the persons group 3.4.4 Mistranslations 4. Conclusion II Transcription and English translation of the Uighur Abhidharmakosabhasya III Commentary to the text and English translation IV Abbreviations and References V Glossary VI Facsimiles

  • Edited by Masahiro Shogaito