Yutaka Yoshida
- KARABALGASUN ii. The Inscription
KARABALGASUN ii. The Inscription The trilingual inscription at Karabalgasun, in Old Turkic, Sogdian, and Chinese, of the eighth Uighur qaghan…
- KARABALGASUN
KARABALGASUN, or Khar Balgas “Black ruined city” in Mongolian, archeological site of a capital of the Uighur Khaghanate (second half…
- PERSONAL NAMES, SOGDIAN i. IN CHINESE SOURCES
PERSONAL NAMES, SOGDIAN i. IN CHINESE SOURCES Sogdians were famous as traders along the Silk Road before the Islamization of…
- SOGDIAN LANGUAGE i. Description
SOGDIAN LANGUAGE i. Description Sogdian is one of the Eastern Middle Iranian languages once spoken in Sogdiana (northern Uzbekistan and…
- SOGDIAN LITERATURE i. Buddhist
SOGDIAN LITERATURE i. Buddhist A considerable number of Buddhist Sogdian texts dating from around the 8th century CE were unearthed…
- DUNHUANG ii. Buddhist and Other Texts in Iranian Languages
DUNHUANG ii. Buddhist and Other Texts in Iranian Languages The library cave in Dunhuang has yielded a number of texts…
- DĪRGHANAKHA-SŪTRA
DĪRGHANAKHA-SŪTRA, a Buddhist text in which the Buddha expounds the merits of observing the eight commandments to a parivrājaka named…
- DHYĀNA TEXT
DHYĀNA TEXT, designation of a Buddhist Sogdian text of 405 lines discovered at Tun-huang (B.M. Or. 8212 [85]; facs. ed….
- DHŪTA-SŪTRA
DHŪTA-SŪTRA, name of a Buddhist Sogdian text discovered at Tun-huang (B. M. Or. 8212 [160]; facs. ed. in MacKenzie, pls….
- DHĀRAṆĪ
DHĀRAṆĪ, magic spells in the Buddhist Mahāyānist and Tantric (esoteric) traditions. i. In Khotanese. ii. In Sogdian. i. IN…