Ein uigurisches Blockdruckfragment der Berliner Turfan-Sammlung

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Ein uigurisches Blockdruckfragment der Berliner Turfan-Sammlung
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Der vorliegende Aufsatz enthält die Edition eines Blockdruckfragments der Berliner Turfan-Sammlung, das unter der Signatur U4711 (T III M 195) aufbewahrt wird. Es handelt sich dabei um einen Blockdrucktext, von dem 3 Blätter (davon nur eines vollständig) erhalten sind. Jedes Blatt enthält 5 Seiten und jede Seite 4 Zeilen. Der Anfang des Fragments (d. h. Z. 1—4) ist beschädigt. Nach der chinesischen Numerierung können wir feststellen, daß unser Text das Ende vom Blatt 11, das Blatt 12 vollständig und den Anfang vom Blatt 13 des Faltbuches enthält. Nach dem Hinweis des Kolophons selbst wurde der buddhistische Text aus dem Sanskrit ins Uigurische von PrajM-Ön übersetzt (Z. 39—40: y(a)rlïy üz-ä änätkäk til-intin uygur til-ingä praty-a Siri . . .). Das uigurische Fragment ist ein Teil aus der Vinaya-viniécaya-upâli-pariprcchâ, deren tibetischer und chinesischer Text sowie einige Sanskrit-Reste von P. Python herausgegeben wurden (Paris 1973).

This article presents an edition of a block-print fragment from the Berlin Turfan Collection, catalogued under the signature U4711 (T III M 195). It is a block-printed text of which 3 leaves survive (only one of them complete). Each leaf contains 5 pages, and each page 4 lines. The beginning of the fragment (i.e., lines 1–4) is damaged. Based on the Chinese numbering, it can be determined that the text contains the end of leaf 11, the whole of leaf 12, and the beginning of leaf 13 of the folded book (accordion-format manuscript). According to the colophon itself, the Buddhist text was translated from Sanskrit into Uyghur by Prajñā-Ön (lines 39–40 give the Uyghur phrase indicating "by decree/command, from the Indian [Sanskrit] language into the Uyghur language, Pratya Śrī..."). The Uyghur fragment is part of the Vinaya-viniścaya-upāli-parīpṭchā [a Buddhist canonical text on monastic discipline, framed as questions by Upāli], whose Tibetan and Chinese text, along with some surviving Sanskrit fragments, were edited by P. Python (Paris, 1973). (English translation provided by Claude.ai Aug 5, 2026)

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Hazai, Georg. "Ein uigurisches Blockdruckfragment der Berliner Turfan-Sammlung." Altorientalische Forschungen 4 (1976): 231–34.
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