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

242 wilkens Beginning with Alγu until Nom Kulı, the charismatic ones with ample puṇya, all Qans ascended the throne of Čagatay a ...

buddhism in the west uyghur kingdom and beyond 243 This epithet testifies to the long-term memory of dynastic origins of the Uyg ...

244 wilkens establish the reading udan265 for the word which has been heretofore only transliterated and translate the whole phr ...

buddhism in the west uyghur kingdom and beyond 245 It is found as well in a eulogy to a Uyghur chief (OU bäg): [The bäg is] the ...

246 wilkens a means widely used to facilitate the spread of Buddhist texts. As far as we know, blockprints were usually fabricat ...

buddhism in the west uyghur kingdom and beyond 247 can only be outlined in this article. From Old Uyghur colophons and inscrip- ...

248 wilkens via Tocharian (Toch. A/B saṅkästere), yielding Old Uyghur saŋgist(e)re,287 saŋastere,288 saŋast(e)re289 or saŋgaster ...

buddhism in the west uyghur kingdom and beyond 249 Further titles derive from Chinese ones such as vapšı (< Chin. fashi 法師 ‘d ...

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esoteric buddhism at the crossroads 251 changed dramatically, and many studies have appeared in recent years partly redressing t ...

252 sØrensen closely at what would be the more useful way of describing what we shall be dealing with here. As for the use of te ...

esoteric buddhism at the crossroads 253 spells for added-on efficacy. We may refer to this later developed class of scrip- tures ...

254 sØrensen exception of the influence afforded by the Tibetan dominion. Although the related manuscripts are in some cases mul ...

esoteric buddhism at the crossroads 255 the Saddharmapuṇḍarīkā12 in which the highlights of the sūtra’s narrative is presented i ...

256 sØrensen iconography can indeed be found–is nevertheless dominated by representa- tions done in Chinese style, whether creat ...

esoteric buddhism at the crossroads 257 In the painting under discussion here,17 we see such a paradise scene includ- ing all th ...

258 sØrensen Figure 7.1 Votive painting depicting the paradise of Bhaiṣajyaguru, 9th century. BM no. 1919. Courtesy British Muse ...

esoteric buddhism at the crossroads 259 Figure 7.2 Detail of fig. 7.1, BM no. 1919. Thousand-armed Mañjuśrī. ...

260 sØrensen Figure 7.3 Detail of fig. 7.1, BM no. 1919. Thousand-armed Avalokiteśvara. ...

esoteric buddhism at the crossroads 261 sions of that time.22 A development, which played out in distinctive ways in the Buddhis ...