The majority of the Sanskrit Buddhist manuscripts from the northern part of the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang (China) were found in an area where the local languages Tocharian A and B were spoken. In this article, the interplay of Sanskrit, the religious language, and Tocharian, the popular language, is investigated based on the example of the relationship between the Sanskrit Udānavarga and the Tocharian B Udānastotra. To this end, a reconstruction of the text of the introduction to the Udānastotra is attempted, which forms the transition from the Udānavarga to the Udānastotra proper. It is argued that this Tocharian B text was found in otherwise Sanskrit manuscripts, which suggests that speakers of Tocharian preferred certain doctri...
Sheldon Pollock’s stimulating book Language of The Gods In The World Of Men has offered numerous new...
Buddhist Sogdian texts contain about 300 loanwords of Indian origin excluding the ones that are know...
In the present article some unpublished Buddhist Sogdian texts belonging to the German Turfan collec...
The majority of the Sanskrit Buddhist manuscripts from the northern part of the Tarim Basin in prese...
Proceedings of the International conference on Tocharian manuscripts and Silk Road culture (Vienna, ...
During the first millennium of the Common Era, Indo-Aryan (Niya Prakrit), Iranian (Khotan Saka) and ...
International audienceThe Buddhist literature of Central Asia offers different versions of texts in ...
Many Sanskrit manuscripts from the Tocharian area stretching from the Kuča to the Turfan regions bea...
The role of spoken languages, analogy with present ethnic minorities and high mobility of population...
This paper explores the historical study of the Sanskrit language and its related systems of writing...
This article provides an explanation for the single and puzzling Tocharian B gloss śaiṣṣe ‘world’ (i...
International audienceThe Karmavibhaṅga is the longest extant text preserved in Tocharian B. The fol...
This article is an edition of thirty-one Sanskrit–Tocharian bilingual fragments of the Udānavarga: t...
The Buddha's teachings have been handed down in different Middle Indic forms (Pāli and Gāndhārī), in...
The collection of Buddhist legends entitled Daśakarmapathāvadānamālā (DKPAM) is attested in several ...
Sheldon Pollock’s stimulating book Language of The Gods In The World Of Men has offered numerous new...
Buddhist Sogdian texts contain about 300 loanwords of Indian origin excluding the ones that are know...
In the present article some unpublished Buddhist Sogdian texts belonging to the German Turfan collec...
The majority of the Sanskrit Buddhist manuscripts from the northern part of the Tarim Basin in prese...
Proceedings of the International conference on Tocharian manuscripts and Silk Road culture (Vienna, ...
During the first millennium of the Common Era, Indo-Aryan (Niya Prakrit), Iranian (Khotan Saka) and ...
International audienceThe Buddhist literature of Central Asia offers different versions of texts in ...
Many Sanskrit manuscripts from the Tocharian area stretching from the Kuča to the Turfan regions bea...
The role of spoken languages, analogy with present ethnic minorities and high mobility of population...
This paper explores the historical study of the Sanskrit language and its related systems of writing...
This article provides an explanation for the single and puzzling Tocharian B gloss śaiṣṣe ‘world’ (i...
International audienceThe Karmavibhaṅga is the longest extant text preserved in Tocharian B. The fol...
This article is an edition of thirty-one Sanskrit–Tocharian bilingual fragments of the Udānavarga: t...
The Buddha's teachings have been handed down in different Middle Indic forms (Pāli and Gāndhārī), in...
The collection of Buddhist legends entitled Daśakarmapathāvadānamālā (DKPAM) is attested in several ...
Sheldon Pollock’s stimulating book Language of The Gods In The World Of Men has offered numerous new...
Buddhist Sogdian texts contain about 300 loanwords of Indian origin excluding the ones that are know...
In the present article some unpublished Buddhist Sogdian texts belonging to the German Turfan collec...