| The Buddhāvataṃsaka Literature in Old Uyghur Contributor(s): Yakup, Abdurishid (Editor) |
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ISBN: 2503584187 ISBN-13: 9782503584188 Publisher: Brepols Publishers OUR PRICE: $111.87 Product Type: Paperback Language: Uighur; Uyghur Published: March 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Buddhism - Sacred Writings |
| Series: Berliner Turfantexte |
| Physical Information: 536 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Buddhist |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |