Old Turkic; Da?akarmapathāvadānamālā; Buddhist narrative literature; Turfan; Central Asia
摘要
In the present article fourteen fragments of the cycle of stories Da?akarmapathāvadānamālā in Old Turkic which are housed in Berlin and St. Petersburg are identified as belonging to a story which was formerly unknown in Turkic literature but can now be related to several parallel versions in Sanskrit, Tibetan and Chinese Buddhist works. Whereas the overall story in the Avadāna is similar to the other versions, the Old Turkic legend shows several unique features. The main character Kāmapriya, who has killed his own mother, tries to annihilate his misdeed by entering the Buddhist community but is subsequently discovered by a young arhat who possesses the “eye of meditation”.
目次
I. 273 II. 278 III. 281 Zuweisung der Handschriften 295 Nachbemerkung 295 Abkürzungen und Literatur 296
