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A NEW FRAGMENT OF AN UNKNOWN COMMENTARY TO THE YUANJUE JING
A NEW FRAGMENT OF AN UNKNOWN COMMENTARY TO THE YUANJUE JING

Author(s): Zhang Tieshan, Peter Zieme
Subject(s): History, Cultural history, Museology & Heritage Studies, Studies of Literature, Non-European Philosophy, East Asian Philosophy, Indian Philosophy
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Old Uigur; Yuanjue jing; Buddhist literature; expansion of Chan Buddhism;

Summary/Abstract: The fragment we are publishing here is preserved in the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage (the former China Institute of Cultural Relics). It is the 53rd leaf of an Uigur manuscript that contains the beginning of an unknown commentary to the Yuanjue jing. Other leaves of the same manuscript of the Hedin Collection in Stockholm were studied by K. Kudara in 1992.

  • Issue Year: 65/2012
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 419-426
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English