Email this article The Layman İndu and an Old Uighur Poem
- Authors: Zieme P.1
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Affiliations:
- Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Issue: Vol 5, No 2 (2019)
- Pages: 39-48
- Section: Original Papers
- URL: https://journals.eco-vector.com/2410-0145/article/view/25875
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/wmo25875-
- ID: 25875
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Edition of an Old Uighur poem preserved on the verso side of SI 4959 (Kr I 18) of the Serindia Collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts. The fragment contains twelve stanzas à four lines. The contents is difficult to define, It is assumed that stanzas I to VI refer to an unnamed young boy who may be a Buddhist novice, while stanzas VII to XII emphasize the importance of doing punya, good deeds. The layman İndu is presented as a model. In stanza IX he vows to encounter with Maitreya expressed in an indirect way. Similar verses are known from Maitreya poems. The paper presents a full edition of this fragment with some notes on problematic words and phrases.
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Peter Zieme
Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
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