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A Word from Old Uyghur to the Present: Alıg
Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 2022 In this study, we examine the etymology of the the word alıg, which has appeared in various Turkic languages starting with Old Uyghur. Researchers have so far put forth different theories regarding the origins of this word, which survives today in different parts of the Turkic-speaking world with various phonetic and semantic changes.
Gülden Sağol Yüksekkaya
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“Listen to the Masters!”: An Old Uyghur Maitreya Praise [PDF]
Письменные памятники Востока, 2021 The veneration of Maitreya is one of the important specifics of Old Uyghur Buddhism. There are numerous praises expressing the fervent wish to meet Maitreya, the Buddha of the future. Many of these praises are written in quatrains with strophic alliteration.
Peter Zieme
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Türkiyat Mecmuası / Journal of Turkology, 2023 Mercury, accepted as a harmful chemical today, is widely used in many fields by various nations as it was used in ancient times. Nations who believed in this element’s changing and transforming properties believed that it transformed worthless metals into gold, a precious metal, and thus placed mercury in an important place in alchemy.
Hacer Tokyürek
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Old Uyghur Sitātapatrā dhāraṇī fragments preserved in the State Hermitage Museum [PDF]
Письменные памятники Востока, 2021 Due to the publication of N. Pchelin and S.-C. Rashmann Turfan manuscripts in the State Hermitage a rediscovery was published (2016), it became obvious that some some fragments of manuscripts and blockprints in different languages originally discovered during the four German Turfan expeditions (19021914) and later housed in the Museum fr Vlkerkunde ...
Ayşe Kılıç Cengiz, Anna Turanskaya
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A Note on the terminology of painting in Old Uyghur
International Journal of Old Uyghur Studies, 2021 Uyghur murals and miniatures are among the most frequently reproduced works of art in academic and popular books on the ‘Silk Road’. However, written Old Uyghur sources about the process of painting are rare. In a text edited by Peter Zieme in 2017 and reprinted in a collection of his articles issued in 2020 the work of a skilled painter is described ...
Jens Wilkens
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Pilgrims in Old Uyghur Inscriptions: A Glimpse behind Their Records [PDF]
, 2020 Simone-Christiane Raschmann
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The Story of Shunzi in Old Uyghur
Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 2020 ABSTRACTThis paper identifies three manuscript fragments from Turfan as an Old Uyghur version of the story of Shunzi 舜子, a medieval Chinese narrative about Emperor Shun acting as a filial son. In China, the story was part of the lore of filial sons (xiaozi 孝子), popular throughout most of the dynastic period.
Kōichi, Kitsudō, Galambos, Imre
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The Poor Man in Byzantium. Fragments of an Old Uyghur Tale
Türkiyat Mecmuası / Journal of Turkology, 2021 Turfan Vahası’ndaki Yarhoto’da keşfedilmiş iki Eski Uygurca bir hikayenin parçası, daha önce herhangi bir eserden bilinmeyen bir anlatıyla ilişkilendirilebilir. Berlin Turfan Koleksiyonu’nun el yazmaları 10. yüzyıldan 12. yüzyıla kadar olan döneme aittir. Fragmanların konusu, tüccarları Bizans’a getirecek bir kervanın hikayesidir.
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Five old Uyghur Abhidharma texts containing Brāhmī elements
BuddhistRoad Paper, 2019 It is commonly known that Chinese Buddhist texts were the main source of Old Uyghur Buddhist texts, which means that the majority of them were translated from Chinese. Among them were not only popular Mahāyāna texts but also Chinese apocryphal texts and commentaries.
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