Studies on Old Turkish Daśakarmapathāvadānamālā (3)
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Studien zur alttürkischen Daśakarmapathāvadānamālā (3) Die Erzählung vom Muttermörder Kāmapriya
Studies on Old Turkish Daśakarmapathāvadānamālā (3) The story of matricide Kāmapriya

Author(s): Jens Wilkens
Subject(s): Theology and Religion, Comparative Studies of Religion, Turkic languages
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Old Turkic; Daśakarmapathāvadānamālā; Buddhist narrative literature; Turfan; Central Asia;

Summary/Abstract: In the present article fourteen fragments of the cycle of stories Daśakarmapathāvadānamālā 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”.

  • Issue Year: 60/2007
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 273-302
  • Page Count: 30
  • Language: German