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Zieme Z. The Layman İndu and an Old Uighur Poem // Written Monuments of the Orient. No. 1(9), 2019. P. 39—48.


Edition of an Old Uighur poem preserved on the verso side of SI 4959 (Kr I 18) of the Serindia Collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts. The fragment contains twelve stanzas а four lines. The contents is difficult to define, It is assumed that stanzas I to VI refer to an unnamed young boy who may be a Buddhist novice, while stanzas VII to XII emphasise the importance of doing puṇya, good deeds. The layman İndu is presented as a model. In stanza IX he vows to encounter with Maitreya expressed in an indirect way. Similar verses are known from Maitreya poems. The paper presents a full edition of this fragment with some notes on problematic words and phrases.

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Buddhism in Central Asia
Buddhist culture
Old Uighur manuscripts
puṇya

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