Email this article “Listen to the Masters!”: An Old Uyghur Maitreya Praise
- Authors: Zieme P.1
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- Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Issue: Vol 18, No 2 (2021)
- Pages: 64-79
- Section: History and historiography
- URL: https://journals.eco-vector.com/1811-8062/article/view/72176
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/WMO72176
- ID: 72176
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The veneration of Maitreya is one of the important specifics of Old Uyghur Buddhism. There are numerous praises expressing the fervent wish to meet Maitreya, the Buddha of the future. Many of these praises are written in quatrains with strophic alliteration. In this paper, three fragments of the Serindia Collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IOM, RAS) are published. Of special interest are some probable references to Chan Buddhism.
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Peter Zieme
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
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Email: ziemepet@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8090-7707
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Germany, Jägerstr. 22/23 10117 BerlinReferences
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