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Sagang Sechen’s Teachings Reconsidered
Sagang Sechen’s Teachings Reconsidered

Author(s): György Kara
Subject(s): Cultural history
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Mongol gnomic poetry; its Indo-Tibetan sources; Mongol versification; alliteration; parallelism; anaphora; anastrophe; enjambement; pre-classical lexical

Summary/Abstract: This is a revision of J.R. Krueger’s reading and translation of the Ordos Prince Sagang Sechen’s moralistic poem written in 1662 in seventy-nine alliterative quatrains attached to his Erdeni-yin tobči, the Jewel Summary, the ‘classical’ chronicle of pre-modern Mongol historiography. A new reading and interpretation is offered with ample commentary.

  • Issue Year: 74/2021
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 267-324
  • Page Count: 58
  • Language: English