Turfan Revisited: The First Century of Research into the Arts and Cultures of the Silk Road

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Colophon Group photo Vorwort / Preface Table of Contents / Inhaltsverzeichnis Grußwort _ Volker Gerhardt Von der Turfanexpedition zur Turfanedition _ Peter Zieme Passports to the Other World: Transformations of Religious Beliefs among the Chinese in Turfan (Fourth to Eighth Centuries) _ Masaharu Arakawa Vaiśravaṇa and the lokapālas: Guardian Figures in the Art of Ihrfan and Beyond _ Janet Baker The Cantillated Manichaean Meal Hymns of the Turfan Collection _ Jason David BeDuhn Some Unique Iconographic Features in Turfan Temple Banners _ Chhaya Bhattacharya-Haesner Turfan and the Grape _ Martha L. Carter Die Veränderung des Erhaltungszustandes der an der nördlichen Seidenstraße (Xinjiang) gelegenen Tempelanlagen in den letzten einhundert Jahren _ Chao Huashan The Sanskrit Abhidharma Fragments from the Ihrfan Oasis _ Siglinde Dietz F.W.K. Müller’s Work on Iranian Languages _ Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst Segmentum and Clavus in Manichaean Garments of the Thrfan Oasis _ Jorinde Ebert Tumshuk, its Importance According to the French and German Excavations _ Laure Feugere The Spitzer Manuscript (SHT 810)-A Philosophical Manuscript from the Kuṣāṇa Period _ Eli Franco The Study of Uighurica from Turfan and Dunhuang in China _ Geng Shimin Text and Image in Manichaean Book Art: A Preliminary Study on Contextual Cohesion _ Zsuzsanna Gulacsi Chinese Passports for the German Turfan Expeditions _ Cordula Gumbrecht Remarks Concerning Turfan Stake Inscription III _ James Hamilton Buddhism along the Silk Road - On the Relationship between the Buddhist Sanskrit Texts from Northern Thrkestan and those from Afghanistan _ Jens-Uwe Hartmann Annemarie von Gabain - Gedanken zu ihrem Wirken in der Berliner Thrfanforschung _ György Hazai The Artistic Pattern of the Kizil Caves and its Influence on Other Sites _ Huo Xuchu Zur Funktion des Beginns von Manis Gigantenbuch _ Manfred Hutter New Prehistoric Finds in the Turfan Basin - The Paleolithic Locality in the Jiaohe Gouxi Tableland _ Idiris Abdurusul An Old Tibetan Fragment on Healing from the Sutra of the Thousand-Eyed and Thousand-Handed Great Compassionate Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara in the Berlin Turfan Collection _ György Kara The Manichaean Text T II D and Ïrq Bitig XIX _ Sergej G. Klyashtornyj Uigur and Tibetan Translations of “The History of the Buddha Statue of Sandalwood in China” _ Kōgi Kudara Turfan und Xixia _ Evgenij I. Kyčanov Pasāgrīw - „Thronfolger“ Manis _ Claudia Leurini The Representation of jātakas in the Kizil Caves _ Li Chongfeng From Turfan to Dunhuang: Manichaean Cosmogony in Chinese Texts _ Samuel N.C. Lieu Zu einem Textfragment des Da Tang Xiyu ji aus dem 7. Jh. und seinem historischen Hintergrund _ Liu Hongliang On the Cultural Transformation in the Area of Eastern Tianshan between the Tang and Song Periods _ Liu Yingsheng The Manuscript T III S 16: Its Importance for the History of Khotanese Literature _ Mauro Maggi The Murals of Sogdiana in Comparison with the Turfan Texts _ Boris I. Marshak Unification of Weights and Measures by the Mongol Empire as Seen in the Uigur and Mongol Documents _ Dai Matsui Some Uighur Elements Surviving in the Mongolian Buddhist Sūtra of the Great Bear _ Takashi Matsukawa Konows Zeichen Nr. 10 _ Dieter Maue The Fragments of Chinese Manichaean Texts from the Turfan Region _ Gunner B. Mikkelsen Manichaean Middle Iranian Incantation Texts from Turfan _ Enrico Morano From Silk, Cotton and Copper Coin to Silver.Transition of the Currency Used by the Uighurs during the Period from the 8th to the 14th Centuries _ Takao Moriyasu A Divination Text Regarding Solar Eclipses, Lunar Eclipses and Earthquakes Based on the Correlation with Days in the Twenty Eight Lunar Mansions _ Tsuneki Nishiwaki Strategies of Manichaean Religious Propaganda _ Antonio Panaino Zum Tocharischen in der Turfanforschung _ Georges-Jean Pinault Maitreya-Buddhismus zwischen Hināyāna und Mahāyāna _ Klaus Röhrborn Juqu Anzhou’s Inscription and the Daliang Kingdom in Turfan _ Rong Xinjiang Praṇidhi _ Maria Rudova Linguistic Particularities in the Middle Mongol Alexander Romance _ Volker Rybatzki Two Fragments of Luxury Cloth Discovered in Turfan: Evidence of Textile Circulation from West to East _ Kazuko Sakamoto Ernst Waldschmidt’s Contribution to the Study of the "IXirfan Finds” _ Lore Sander Indo-Tocharica Die Bedeutung anderssprachiger Parallelversionen für die Erschließung des tocharischen Schrifttums _ Klaus T. Schmidt Die große Handschrift der Xuanzang-Biographie: Neue Erkenntnisse über Fundort und Textbestand _ Ablet Semet Zu Personen- und Ortsnamen in uigurischen Gelddokumenten _ Osman Fikri Sertkaya Digitization of the Berlin Turfan Collection _ Ramin Shaghaghi How Were Chinese Characters Read in Uighur? _ Masahiro Shōgaito Two Bactrian Fragments from Yar-khoto _ Nicholas Sims-Williams The Chinese Language in Turfan with a Special Focus on the Qieyun Fragments _ Tokio Takata Sociolinguistic Implications of the Use of Tibetan in East Turkestan from the End of Tibetan Domination through the Tangut Period (9th-12th c.) _ Tsuguhito Takeuchi Über die ursprüngliche Bedeutung von bodun _ Semih Tezcan Die Briefe Albert von Le Coqs an Willi Bang-Kaup im Archiv der Löwener Universität _ Alois Van Tongerloo A Fragment of a Draft of an Early Medieval Uighur Verse Text _ Lilia Yu. Tugusheva The Uyghur Document SI 4b Kr. 71 Concerning the Sale of a Slave and the Loan of Silver _ Hiroshi Umemura The Role of N.F. Petrovsky in the Formation of the Central Asiatic Manuscript Collection of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies _ Margarita I. Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya Albert Grünwedel - Leben und Werk _ Hartmut Walravens Ch 3586 — ein khitanisches Fragment mit uigurischen Glossen in der Berliner Turfansammlung _ Wang Ding Die zentralasiatischen Sanskrit-Fragmente in der Sammlung der Istanbuler Universitätsbibliothek _ Klaus Wille Nugae Sogdicae 2 _ Ilya Yakubovich On a Newly Unearthed Uyghur Letter from Dunhuang _ Abdurishid Yakup An Examination of the Mural Paintings of Visualizing Monks in Toyok Cave 42: In Conjunction with the Origin of Some Chinese Texts on Meditation _ Nobuyoshi Yamabe Chamuk A Name Element of Some Sogdian Rulers _ Yutaka Yoshida Die uigurische Übersetzung des Bhaiṣajyagurusūtra nach einem Blockdruck aus Turfan _ Israpil Yüsüp The Double Sense of Sogdian δyw _ Zohreh Zarshenas Verification of the Original Locations of the Murals from Caves in Kizil Kept in the Museum für Indische Kunst, Berlin _ Zhao Li Die Bedeutung der Turfanfunde für die Indogermanistik With an English Summary _ Stefan Zimmer Contributors’ Addresses / Kontaktadressen der Autoren Colour plates / farbtafeln