Studies on a Fragment of the Old Uighur Abhidharmakośabhāṣya Preserved at the National Library of China
Studies on a Fragment of the Old Uighur Abhidharmakośabhāṣya Preserved at the National Library of China

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, the author presents a fragment of a translation of the Abidharmakośabhāṣya into Old Uighur preserved at the National Library of China, Beijing. This leaf can be connected to the Abidharmakośabhāṣya fragments preserved at the Ethnographic Museum in Stockholm and studied by Shōgaito Masahiro. Through an examination of the size, form, handwriting, etc., we conclude that all the Abidharmakośabhāṣya texts preserved in Stockholm, Kyoto, Beijing, Lanzhou, and Hangzhou belong to one and the same manuscript.

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