Turnhout, Brepols, 2011 Paperback, 343 p., 88 b/w ill., 210 x 297 mm. ISBN 9782503528885.
The seven texts edited in this volume give new insights into the Prajn'p'ramit' literature in Old Uyghur, an important corpus of Old Uyghur Buddhist texts. The volume presents each text with a transcription, transliteration and translation into English on facing pages. Besides the general introduction it also includes an extensive introduction to each text, philological and Buddhological notes, a complete glossary with Chinese counterparts and facsimiles of selected fragments. The volume also makes available for the first time an extensive edition of three important Buddhist texts, namely the Diamond Sutra, the Heart Sutra and the fragments of various commentaries. Master Fu's verse commentary both with and without the sutra text is considerably enlarged, including a large number of new fragments which were identified after the publication of the Berliner Turfantexte I. Languages: English.
, Brepols, 2021 Paperback, 536 pages, Size:210 x 297 mm, Illustrations:56 col., Language(s):English, Uygur. ISBN 9782503584188.
Summary This volume presents an edition of the Buddh?vata?saka literature in Old Uyghur mainly focusing on the fragments of the Buddh?vata?saka s?tra in eighty volumes and the Buddh?vata?saka s?tra 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 Buddh?vata?saka s?tra in fourty volumes by the famous Old Uyghur translator and poet Anzang, fragments of a commentary to the Buddh?vata?saka s?tra and other texts which can be classified to the Buddh?vata?saka literature.