Transfer of Buddhism Across Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries)

202 wilkens husband, the upāsaka (OU upase) Külüg Inanč Šaču Saŋun.52 The inscription speaks of the establishment of a monastery ...

buddhism in the west uyghur kingdom and beyond 203 ögirdäči) follows. The persons are for the most part relatives of the donatin ...

204 wilkens cult of the future Buddha Maitreya among the Uyghurs at the turn of the first millennium.68 This is corroborated by ...

buddhism in the west uyghur kingdom and beyond 205 a deep impact on the Uyghurs. Many Sanskrit terms were transmitted via a Toch ...

206 wilkens · the relationship between the religious and the political sphere had been already defined by the Manichaeans (on wh ...

buddhism in the west uyghur kingdom and beyond 207 influenced Uyghur Buddhism on different levels,81 the impact of the former be ...

208 wilkens Formerly it was assumed that the Uyghur Buddhists celebrated a New Year’s festival, which had Iranian (i.e. pre-Budd ...

buddhism in the west uyghur kingdom and beyond 209 ing from the language of a given Manichaean text alone, whether it was copied ...

210 wilkens Figure 6.1 Peald 6r (detail) (Courtesy East Asian Library, Princeton), Dunhuang illustration to the Old Uyghur work ...

buddhism in the west uyghur kingdom and beyond 211 Figure 6.2 Stein Painting 279d (Trustees of the British Museum, London), Šorč ...

212 wilkens Figure 6.3 III 6324 Yarkhoto illustration to the Old Uyghur work Daśakarmapathāvadānamālā © Staatliche Museen zu Ber ...

buddhism in the west uyghur kingdom and beyond 213 this depiction exactly parallels Chinese art from the Tang Dynasty portraying ...

214 wilkens Figure 6.5 III 10 Kočo illustration to a narrative text in Sogdian © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatis ...

buddhism in the west uyghur kingdom and beyond 215 gold next to the colours red and blue is remarkable here, too. And the layout ...

216 wilkens Figure 6.6 III 4948 (detail) Kočo © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst/ Iris Papadopoulos. ...

buddhism in the west uyghur kingdom and beyond 217 Figure 6.7 III 6324 (detail) © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiati ...

218 wilkens 10th century at the very latest. Several Chinese sources record a legation of the Uyghurs in the year 965.108 One of ...

buddhism in the west uyghur kingdom and beyond 219 the Uyghur population in the 10th century,112 be it in Dunhuang or in the Wes ...

220 wilkens jun 歸義軍) established diplomatic contacts between Dunhuang and the West Uyghur Kingdom, which are mirrored in Chinese ...

buddhism in the west uyghur kingdom and beyond 221 Pāpaṃkara (P. 3509) may point to the fact that it could easily be carried by ...