Ritual, Language and the Written Text: An Oirat Version of an Incense Offering to the White Old Man

Yampolskaya, Natalia (2025) Ritual, Language and the Written Text: An Oirat Version of an Incense Offering to the White Old Man. ACTA ORIENTALIA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARUM HUNGARICAE, 78 (2). pp. 379-392. ISSN 0001-6446

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Abstract

The article introduces two Oirat manuscript texts of an incense offering to the White Old Man, described in the context of the wider trilingual corpus of ritual texts dedicated to this popular deity. A collation with the Tibetan versions of the same incense offering shows that one of the two Oirat texts is a back translation from Tibetan. The paper addresses the possible circumstances that could lead to translating a text from Mongolian (or Oirat) into Tibetan and back into Oirat, connecting this particular instance to the processes that took place in the sphere of Buddhist scripture translation.

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