Buddhāvataṃsaka literature in old Uyghur
By: Abdurishid Yakup
Series: Berliner Turfantexte -- XLIV; Berliner Turfantexte -- 44.
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Turnhout, Belgium
Language: eng
Number of pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9782503584188
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Hua yan Buddhism; Early works to 1800; Doctrines
Description: This volume presents an edition of the Buddhavatamsaka literature in Old Uyghur mainly focusing on the fragments of the Buddhavatamsaka sutra in eighty volumes and the Buddhavatamsaka sutra 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 Buddhavatamsaka sutra in forty volumes by the famous Old Uyghur translator and poet Anzang, fragments of a commentary to the Buddhavatamsaka sutra and other texts which can be classified to the Buddhavatamsaka literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Introduction -- -- 2.; title: Texts: Transcription, translation, commentary and transliteration: -- Text A; title: The Buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra in eighty volumes ; -- Text B; title: The Buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra in forty volumes ; -- Text C; title: Alliterative verse translation of the Samantahhadracaryā-praṇidhāna ; -- Text D; title: Praises of the ten virtues of Samantabhadra composed by Anzang ; -- Text E; title: A verse illustration of the practice of the ten Vows of Samantabhadra ; -- Text F; title: A Fragment of an unknown commentary to the Buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra in eighty volumes ; -- Text G; title: Invocation of the bodhisattvas in the `Repentance Ritual on the Platform of Ocean-like Samadhi from the Buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra' -- -- 3.; title: Glossary -- -- 4.; title: Abbreviations -- -- 5.; title: Bibliography.