Download or read book Khotanese Texts without special title written by Harold Walter Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indo Scythian Studies Being Khotanese Texts Volume IV Volume 4 written by H. W. Bailey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1979-10-31 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of literary texts, business letters and military orders from the 8th century AD, written in an Indo-Scythian dialect.
Download or read book Khotanese Texts written by Harold Walter Bailey (linguiste).) and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A New Version of the G ndh r Dharmapada and a Collection of Previous birth Stories written by Timothy Lenz and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume continues the detailed examination of the British Library Kharosthi scrolls--extremely fragile and brittle fragments of manuscript on birch-bark rolls. Although their provenance is uncertain, there are strong indications that they came from Hadda in eastern Afghanistan and were most likely written in the early first century A.D. during the reign of the Saka rulers, making them the oldest known Buddhist manuscripts. Fragments 16 and 25 are two long, relatively narrow fragments that obviously belong to the same scroll. Two texts were written on the scroll, each by a different scribe. The first text, referred to as the Gandhari London Dharmapada, represents an anthology of verses well known in the Buddhist tradition. The second text is a series of stories concerning previous births of the Buddha and of some of his disciples. For more information go to the Early Buddhist Manuscript Project web site at http://www.ebmp.org/
Download or read book The Literature of Pre Islamic Iran written by Ronald E. Emmerick and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-31 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia and been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others. Yet Persian literature has never received the attention it truly deserves."A History of Persian Literature" answers this need and offers a new, comprehensive and detailed history of its subject. This 18-volume, authoritative survey reflects the stature and significance of Persian literature as the single most important accomplishment of the Iranian experience.The main object of this companion volume is to provide an overview of the most important extant literary sources in Old and Middle Iranian languages - the languages of the Achaemenid, Parthian and Sasanian periods culminating in the rich resource of Pahlavi Persian which fed so directly into the language of the later great Persian poets. It will be an indispensable source for the literary traditions of pre-Islamic Iran and an invaluable guide to the subject.
Download or read book Indo Scythian Studies Being Khotanese Texts Volume VI Volume 6 Prolexis to the Book of Zambasta written by H. W. Bailey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1967-10 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A close commentary on the establishment of the Khotanese text, The Book of Zambasta.
Download or read book Once Upon a Future Time written by Jan Nattier and published by Jain Publishing Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth study of Buddhist theories of the decline and disappearance of their own religion. Nattier's work challenges previous assumptions on this topic and focuses on the critical study of the "Kausambi Story, " a Buddhist prophecy of decline, in its Tibetan, Central Asian, and Chinese variants.
Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Download or read book A Century of British Orientalists 1902 2001 written by C. Edmund Bosworth and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-10-25 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolution of Oriental Studies in Britain over the last century is traced in thirteen essays on key figures (twelve of them Fellows of the British Academy). They exemplify the outstanding contribution of British scholars to Oriental scholarship, within the general trend in the West to understand and interpret the civilisations of the East sympathetically. Through the careers and achievements of these influential scholars these essays shed light on studies ranging from Ancient Egyptian and Hebrew, through Arabic, Persian and Turkish, to Indology, Chinese and Japanese. With important changes of methodology and approach to the cultures and religions of Asia, the twentieth century has been an exciting and fruitful period for Oriental Studies in Britain.
Download or read book Tibetan Texts Concerning Khotan written by R. E. Emmerick and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manuscripts and Travellers written by Sam van Schaik and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is based on a manuscript which was carried by a Chinese monk through the monasteries of the Hexi corridor, as part of his pilgrimage from Wutaishan to India. The manuscript has been created as a composite object from three separate documents, with Chinese and Tibetan texts on them. Included is a series of Tibetan letters of introduction addressed to the heads of monasteries along the route, functioning as a passport when passing through the region. The manuscript dates to the late 960s, coinciding with the large pilgrimage movement during the reign of Emperor Taizu of the Northern Song recorded in transmitted sources. Therefore, it is very likely that this is a unique contemporary testimony of the movement, of which our pilgrim was also part. Complementing extant historical sources, the manuscript provides evidence for the high degree of ethnic, cultural and linguistic diversity in Western China during this period.
Download or read book Middle Iranian Studies written by Wojciech Skalmowski and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the proceedings of a conference organized in a manner that the papers should cover most areas of research in the field of Middle Iranian. Several contributions contain surveys, summaries, methodological notes or proposals for new research. In this respect the volume may serve as a partial guide to the present state of research. Special attention is paid to Middle Persian, particularly to Pahlavi. Several articles deal with or are devoted to Khotanese.
Download or read book The Silk Road written by British Library and published by Serindia Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ReOrienting Histories of Medicine written by Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is rarely appreciated how much of the history of Eurasian medicine in the premodern period hinges on cross-cultural interactions and knowledge transmissions. Using manuscripts found in key Eurasian nodes of the medieval world – Dunhuang, Kucha, the Cairo Genizah and Tabriz – the book analyses a number of case-studies of Eurasian medical encounters, giving a voice to places, languages, people and narratives which were once prominent but have gone silent. This is an important book for those interested in the history of medicine and the transmissions of knowledge that have taken place over the course of global history.
Download or read book Iranian Languages and Texts from Iran and Turan written by R. E. Emmerick and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2007 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Memorial Volume is dedicated to one of the most prolific and renowned scholars in the field of Iranian Studies, the late Professor Ronald E. Emmerick, who held the chair of Iranian Studies in Hamburg until his untimely death in 2001. The volume consists of thirty-three papers, written by some of the foremost scholars in the field of Iranian Studies. The articles are essentially concerned with Old, New and especially Middle Iranian languages and texts, reflecting the predominant scholarly interests of Ronald Emmerick, whose reasearches were also directed towards Indian and Tibetan Studies. Nine papers deal with the Khotanese and Tumshuquese language, one of Emmericks main ? elds of research. The volume is accompanied by an updated Bibliography and Indices of quotations and of words.
Download or read book Tang China and the Collapse of the Uighur Empire written by Michael Drompp and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the Tang response to the collapse of the Uighur steppe empire in 840 C.E. and the large number of refugees who fled to China's northern frontier. It examines the workings of late Tang bureaucracy through translations of some seventy relevant Chinese documents.
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Iran written by William Bayne Fisher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys Iranian history and culture and its contribution to the civilization of the world. Covers religious, philosophical, political, economic, scientific and artistic elements in Iranian civilization.
