Uygur Metni Abitaki Üzerine Bir Çalışma (4)

Yakın zamanlarda, Pekin Ulusal Kütüphanesi’nde bir Abitaki Uygur metni olduğu söylenen 25 yapraklı metin bulduk. Bu metinde “Abitaki” sözcüğü (

A Study on the Uighur Text Abitaki (4)

Recently, we found 25 folios of the so-called Abitaki Uighur text in the Beijing National Library. The word “Abitaki” (Chinese “Amituojing/Amitaking=Sanskrit Amitabha-sutra) is used only as a code name written in small letters on the left side of some folios of the manuscript; but it has no thing to do with the famous scripture “Amitabha-sutra” (one chapter, translated into Chinese by the famous Uighur scholar Kumarajiva 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 4 chapters of the Pure Land School and it was copied in Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368 AD). Here I study and publish another folio (belonging to 3rd chapter) of the text1.

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