Study of Another Two Folios of the Uighur Text “Abitaki”
Study of Another Two Folios of the Uighur Text “Abitaki”

Summary/Abstract: Recently we found 25 folios of the so-called Abitaki Uighur text in the Beijing National Library. The word “Abitaki”(<Chinese “Amituojing/Amitaking = Sanskrit Amitābha-sūtra) is used only as a code name written in small letter on the left side of some folios of the manuscript. But it has nothing to do with the famous scripture “Amitābha-sūtra”(one chapter, translated into Chinese by Kumārajīva in the 4th century AD). I hold that it belongs to a lost Buddhist Chinese book called “Da Bai Lian She Jing”(The Great Lotus Society Sutra) consisting of four chapters of the Pure Land School and it was copied during the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368). Here I am studying and pub­lishing another two folios (belonging to the 3rd chapter) of the text.

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