Sogdian Texts
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Recent papers in Sogdian Texts
Translation and commentary of the political Sogdian documents from the Mount Mugh (early720's)
This paper aims to discuss the philological ‘mechanisms’ used in translating Christian texts into Sogdian. In particular, it focuses on how different Christian theological and ecclesiological vocabularies were translated from Syriac.... more
This paper, published in two parts, presents the results of joint work on several Sogdian fragments recently discovered in the Serindia Collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IOM, RAS),... more
Sogdština byla jedním z významných jazyků středoasijské trasy Hedvábné stezky. V tomto jazyce se zachovala celá řada různorodých textů – osobní korespondence, diplomatická pošta, smlouvy různého charakteru, účetní záznamy, překlady... more
This paper, published in two parts, presents the results of joint work on several Sogdian fragments recently discovered in the Serindia Collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IOM, RAS),... more
The paper gives a survey of the codicological variety of the Sogdian manuscripts in Manichaean script of the Berlin Turfan Collection. Book formats, paper/silk/leather type, re-used paper, scripts and plurilingualism will be examined and... more
Abstract The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of Sogdian Buddhist monks in the spread of Buddhism in southern China. Sogdians played an important role in promoting Buddhism because they knew Chinese and Hindi, and they... more
Středoasijský Turkestán by se dodnes dal nazvat Babylonem jazyků – nejinak tomu bylo i v předislámském období. Zejména z oblasti Turfanské oázy v Ujghuristánu pochází celá řada textů v různých jazycích (íránských, indoárských,... more