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Khotanese Literature

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ID20051730
AuthorsM Maggi (corresponding author)
Year2009
Publication date2009-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueThe Literature of Pre-Islamic Iran (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherI.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9780755610402.ch-007
OpenAlexW4238812697
ISBN9780755610402
LanguageEN
Citations received3

Questo capitolo è la trattazione più recente ed estesa della letteratura khotanese, ovvero del corpus di testi letterari (perlopiù buddhisti) scritti nella lingua medioiranica orientale un tempo parlata nell’Asia centrale cinese (Xinjiang, secoli V-X) e ora nota come khotanese. Esso comprende le sezioni seguenti: Provenienza, data e lingua dei manoscritti; Scrittura; Tipologia dei manoscritti; Metrica; Testi letterari; Origini della letteratura buddhista khotanese; Introduzione del buddhismo; Tecniche di traduzione; Canone e classificazione; Compendi dottrinali originali; Avadāna; Sūtra mahāyāna; Dh?ra??; Buddhismo esoterico; Testi non dottrinali (Poesia, Itinerario, Testi e frammenti medici, Testi bilingui). This chapter is the most recent and extensive treatment of Khotanese literature, i.e. the corpus of literary, mostly Buddhist, texts written in the Eastern Middle Iranian language once spoken in Chinese Central Asia (Xinjiang, 5th-10th centuries) and now known as Khotanese. It comprises the following sections: Provenance, date and language of the manuscripts; Script; Typology of manuscripts; Metrics; Literary texts; Origins of Khotanese Buddhist literature; Introduction of Buddhism; Translation techniques; "Canon” and classification; Original doctrinal compendia; Avadāna literature; Mahāyāna sūtras; Dh?ra??s; Esoteric Buddhism; Nondoctrinal texts (Poetry, Itinerary, Medical texts and fragments, Bilinguals)

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