Book Summary
This volume publishes and describes Uyghur (Old Turkic) block prints from the Berlin Turfan collection, which form an important corpus of Central Asian Buddhist literature of the 13th and 14th centuries. They fall into six categories: apocrypha, Mahayana sutras, narratives, magical texts, commentaries, and colophons. German text.
Book Details
| Book Name | Altturkische Handschriften: Teil 12: Die Uigurischen Blockdrucke Der Berliner Turfansammlung Teil 2: Apokryphen, Mahayana-Sutren, Erzahlungen, Mag |
| Author | Abdurishid Yakup |
| Publisher | Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden Gmbh (Dec 2008) |
| ISBN | 9783515092333 |
| Pages | 266 |
| Language | German |
| Price | 5954 |
