A comparative study of the beginning of the 11th act of the Tocharian A Maitreyasamitināṭaka and the Old Uyghur Maitrisimit

2016/11/19 by Michaël Peyrot, Ablet Semet · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Linguistics and Cultural Studies #Linguistics and language evolution #Eurasian Exchange Networks

paper · pdf · doi:10.1556/062.2016.69.4.1

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Abstract

The Tocharian A Maitreyasamitināṭaka , a long dramatic text about the future Buddha Maitreya that is translated into Old Uyghur prose as the Maitrisimit , is one of the most important texts of Tocharian and Old Uyghur Buddhism. It is of crucial importance for Tocharian studies because even smaller fragments can often be interpreted successfully with the help of the better preserved Old Uyghur parallels. In this paper, the beginning of the 11th act about the birth of Maitreya is studied, comparing the Tocharian A and Old Uyghur fragments which are in part parallel and in part complementary.

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