A New Fragment of an Old Uyghur Version of the Samantabhdracaryā-praṇidhāna Preserved at the Liaoning Provincial Museum

Mao, Xuan and Zhang, Tieshan (2025) A New Fragment of an Old Uyghur Version of the Samantabhdracaryā-praṇidhāna Preserved at the Liaoning Provincial Museum. ACTA ORIENTALIA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARUM HUNGARICAE, 78 (4). pp. 681-691. ISSN 0001-6446

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Abstract

This paper introduces a new fragment of the Old Uyghur version of the Samantabhadracaryā-praṇidhāna . The fragment was collected by Luo Zhenyu 羅振玉 (1866–1940) and subsequently acquired by the Liaoning Provincial Museum, where it is preserved. The Old Uyghur text is written on the verso of a Chinese text. Like other Old Uyghur translations of the Samantabhadracaryā-praṇidhāna , the Old Uyghur part of the text is written in alliterating verses. Some of these verses fill gaps in the Uyghur translation, making the text especially valuable. The Old Uyghur fragment contains a number of lines that do not correspond precisely with the Chinese text. It can be hypothesized that this is either a selective copy of the Old Uyghur Samantabhadracaryā-praṇidhāna , or a Chinese text of which we are not aware served as the basis of its translation. This is significant for studying the characteristics of Anzang’s Old translation of the Samantabhdracaryā-praṇidhāna .

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