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Along their long history, Turkic languages got into contact with numerous other languages, amongst which was also Chinese. Many Chinese Buddhist works were translated into Uighur, and, as a matter of course, these translations activated loans in Uighur from Chinese. Several studies have dealt with the Chinese loans in Uighur, and most of them regard Uighur čog ‘glowing heat, flame; splendour’ as a word of Chinese origin. The present paper carefully investigates the word čog and the words related to it in Old Turkic, and comes to the conclusion that the Chinese derivation of the word is not so obvious, since that explanation is aggravated by serious difficulties. Instead, on the basis of Turkic linguistic data, the author offers new ideas for explaining the Uighur word čog.
Three leaves written in Brāhmī script and kept in the Dunhuang Research Academy turn out to be parts of a bilingual text of Dharmaśarīrasūtra in Sanskrit and Uighur. After analysing several versions of Dharmaśarīrasūtra, it can be inferred that these three fragments belong to the Northern Brāhmī recensions which were circulated along the Northern Silk Road and are different from the Southern Brāhmī recensions popular along the Southern Route, such as the Khotanese version. This paper attempts to transcribe these fragments and make a thorough research on Dharmaśarīrasūtra, taking five relevant Chinese versions into account.
Recently we found 25 folios of the so-called Abitaki Uighur text in the Beijing National Library. The word “Abitaki”(<Chinese “Amituojing/Amitaking = Sanskrit Amitābha-sūtra) is used only as a code name written in small letter on the left side of some folios of the manuscript. But it has nothing to do with the famous scripture “Amitābha-sūtra”(one chapter, translated into Chinese by Kumārajīva in the 4th century AD). I hold that it belongs to a lost Buddhist Chinese book called “Da Bai Lian She Jing”(The Great Lotus Society Sutra) consisting of four chapters of the Pure Land Schooland it was copied during theYuan Dynasty (1279-1368). Here I am studying and publishing another two folios (belonging to the 3rd chapter) of the text.
Recently we found 25 folios in Uighur of the the so-called “Abitaki” text in Beijing. The word “Abitaki” (< Chinese “Amituojing/Amitaking = Sanskrit Amitābha-sūtra) is used only as a code name written in small letter on the left side of some folios of the manuscript. But it has nothing to do with the famous scripture “Amitābha-sūtra” (one chapter, translated into Chinese by Kumārajīva in the 4th century AD). I hold that it belongs to a lost Buddhist Chinese book called “Da Bai Lian She Jing” (The Great White Lotus Society Sūtra) consisting of 4 chapters of the Pure Land School and it was copied in Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368). Here I study and publish 2 folios (belonging to the 3rd chapter) of the text. The whole text will be published in the near future.
] . Freiburg . Mirkamal , Aydar 阿依達爾•米爾卡馬力 2020 . ‘Guojia tushuguan cang sanjian huihuwen Ahanjing canye yanjiu 國家圖書館藏三件回鶻文《阿含經》殘葉研究 [On Three Old Uighur Āgama Fragments Preserved in the National Library of China] .’ Xiyu Yanjiu 西域研究 2020 / 4 : 123
. Fu Ma 付馬 and Xia Lidong 夏立棟 2021. ‘Comprehensive Study on Old Uighur and Chinese Wall Inscriptions in Room B of Newly Excavated Cave 26 in Tuyuq Grottoes, Turfan.’ Acta Orientalia Hung. 74
Kōichi 橘堂晃一 2017 . ‘Ōtani tankentai shōrai uiguru bun Daijō nyūdō shidai zan’yō 大谷探検隊将来ウイグル文『大乗入道次第』残葉 [Fragments of Old Uighur version of Dasheng ru dao cidi obtained by the Ōtani expedition].’ In: Irisawa Takashi 入沢崇 and Kitsudō Kōichi
In the Mongol period, the Uighurs who settled around the Turfan region not only translated Chinese Buddhist works into the Uighur language, but also directly copied them in Chinese characters or composed original works with the combination of arbitrary quotations from Chinese works. The Insadi-Sūtra is such a work in question. The author of this paper succeeded in identifying two Chinese Buddhist texts written by Uighurs. They will help us better understand the background in which these Uighur-Chinese mixed texts came about.
colophon and the background of its translations].’ Tōyō Shien 東洋史苑 86-87 : 1 – 23 . Kitsudō Kōichi 2017 . ‘New Light on the Huayan jing in Old Uighur from the Krotkov Collection and Yoshikawa Photographs.’ In: Irisawa Takashi 入澤孝 and Kitsudō
Textes versehen . Leiden : E. J. Brill . Oda Juten 1996 . ‘A Fragment of the Old Uighur Avalokiteśvara-Sūtra with Notes.’ In: R. E Emmerick , W Sundermann , I Warnke and P Zieme (eds.) Turfan, Khotan und Dunhuang. Vorträge der
