Der Einleitungsśloka zur „Lehrschrift über das Eintreten in den Abhidharma“ (T. 1554)

Year 2021, Volume: 5 Issue: 2, 403 - 411, 24.07.2021

Peter Zieme

https://doi.org/10.35236/jots.969638

Abstract

The fragment Mainz 857 (verso) of the Berlin Turfan Collection contains a parallel to text F of the miscellaneous manuscript U 5335 (edited Berliner Turfantexte 34). The vertical lines (columns), which comprise an Old Uyghur translation of the beginning of the prologue to the Abhidharmāvatāra (T. 1554: 入阿毘達磨論 ru apidamo lun), are arranged in such a way that they proceed from right to left, contrary to the usual left-right direction.

Keywords

Prologue of the Abhidharmāvatāra , ancient Uyghur translation , script direction , Turfan Collection.

The introductory Śloka to “the Treatise on Entering the Abhidharma” (T. 1554)

Abstract

The fragment Mainz 857 (verso) of the Berlin Turfan Collection contains a parallel to text F of the miscellaneous manuscript U 5335 (edited Berliner Turfantexte 34). The vertical lines (columns), which comprise an Old Uyghur translation of the beginning of the prologue to the Abhidharmāvatāra (T. 1554: 入阿毘達磨論 ru apidamo lun), are arranged in such a way that they proceed from right to left, contrary to the usual left-right direction.

Keywords

Prologue of the Abhidharmāvatāra , ancient Uyghur translation , script direction , Turfan Collection.

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