Buddhist Indian Loanwords in Sogdian and the Development of Sogdian Buddhism

Buddhist Indian Loanwords in Sogdian and the Development of Sogdian Buddhism

Buddhist Sogdian texts contain about 300 loanwords of Indian origin excluding the ones that are known also in Manichaean, secular, or Christian Sogdian texts. About sixty percent of these can easily be seen to be borrowed from Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit. A further twenty percent or so are not so easil...

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Main Author: Pavel B. Lurje
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: CERES / KHK Bochum 2021-11-01
Series:Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer
Subjects:
Buddhist Sogdian texts
Sogdiana
Old and Middle Indo-Aryan
Middle Iranian
Chinese Tripiṭaka
translation technique
Online Access:https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/article/view/9279

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