Development of the Database for Catalogue of Old Uighur Manuscripts brought back by the Otani Expeditions

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K02049
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Chinese philosophy/Indian philosophy/Buddhist studies
• Research Institution: Ryukoku University
• Principal Investigator: KITSUDO KOICHI 龍谷大学, 公私立大学の部局等, 研究員 (00598295)
• Research Collaborator: Zieme Peter ; Raschmann Simone=Christiane ; MATSUI Dai
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 大谷探検隊 / ウイグル語 / 写本 / 仏教

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The fragments of old Uighur manuscripts brought back by the Otani expeditions amount about 3,000 items. 90% of them are Buddhist texts. The Catalogue of the manuscripts written in Old Uighur script brought back by the Otani expeditions was published by Haneda Akira and Yamada Nobuo in 1961. This is fundamental catalogue to study these fragments. However, along with the development of linguistic study of Old Uighur language and Budhist study, the catalogue is to be correct today. In this project, I, the applicant, visited several institutes in German and Russia where have the collection of Old Uighur from Turfan region. Comparing them with the fragments of the Otani expeditons, I could identify the content of about sixty fragments. I published a part of the fruits in the journals. This project can provide fundamental data for the cataloguing work.

Free Research Field

仏教史