Abstract

Only a few remnants of the ancient Uyghur Vinaya literature have survived. The incomplete state of the two fragments presented here does not allow any firm statements to be made about a specific textual affiliation, but the textual preservation clearly points to an affiliation with Vinaya literature. The aim of this first publication is, on the one hand, to make other Old Uyghur Vinaya text fragments known and, on the other hand, to stimulate discussion of the content.

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  • I would like to bring two small fragments to the edition, which can be assigned to the Old Uighur Vinaya literature

  • It is for the first time that we are faced with remnants of a monolingual Old Uighur Vinaya text in Uighur script

  • As far as I can see, it is for the first time that the term padayantik/paṭayantik, the Old Uighur calque for Sanskrit pātayantika in Uighur script is attested in the fragment Ch/U6722 verso. pātayantika “causing fall” designates “one of the three main kinds of monkish transgressions, the others being pārājika and saṃghāvaśeṣa”

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Introduction

I would like to bring two small fragments to the edition, which can be assigned to the Old Uighur Vinaya literature. It is for the first time that we are faced with remnants of a monolingual Old Uighur Vinaya text in Uighur script. Recently Jens Wilkens was able to identify and publish the Berlin fragment U6044 as a bilingual text in Sanskrit and Old Uighur relating to the pravāraṇā ceremony written in Uighur script.

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