Zieme P. Maitreya and the Religious Situation according to Two Old Uighur Poems of Yuan Dynasty. Edition of SI 4485 and SI 4958 // Pis'mennye pamiatniki Vostoka. Vol. 18, no. 3 (46), 2021, pp. 5–16.
This paper offers the edition of SI 4485 and SI 4958, two manuscripts of the Old Uighur
section of the Serindia Collection of the IOM written in alliterating verses. Their contents are praises
on Maitreya, the future Buddha. The author tries to show why praises on Maitreya like the two presented
here were written. He argues that it was to advocate the preservation of Buddhism through
proving the superiority of the Maitreya cult over other religions in the current viral times of the Yuan.
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