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Religion and State in the Altaic World
Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC), Friedensau, Germany, August 18–23, 2019
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Religion and State in the Altaic World
Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC), Friedensau, Germany, August 18–23, 2019
About this book
This collection of papers presented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference explores the complex relations of religion and state in history, language and society of Altaic cultures, reflecting the unique interdisciplinary approach of the PIAC. It examines aspects of shamanism, religious belief, totemism and religious influences on contracts in historical literary monuments as well as in contemporary sources.
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From the Sanskrit-Tibetan transliteration system to the Mongolian and the Manchu ali-gali script
Kao Hsiang-Tai
Introduction
Buddhism has influenced East Asia as well as Inner Asia in many aspects for thousands of years. Its influence is evident not only in how religious spirituality still permeates the culture, but also in many traits of the language itself. In fact, translation techniques of Buddhist texts have developed across a variety of languages, including Chinese, Tibetan, Mongolian, and Manchu.
The Manchu ali-gali script was inspired by the Mongolian ali-gali script, which had been created and shaped from the Sanskrit-Tibetan transliteration system. These three transliteration systems all served a religious purpose, i.e. translating Buddhist texts.
While the Sanskrit-Tibetan transliteration and the Mongolian ali-gali script are quite well known among scholars, the Manchu ali-gali script has only recently started being re-studied. This is largely due to the fact that Manchu ali-gali script is exclusively used for transliterating Sanskrit and Tibetan texts.
History of the three scripts
The Tibetan script is an abug...
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Material Culture: Shagreen in the Bābur-nāma
- Polysemy of the Word “Täŋri”
- Return of State-Supported Buddhist Rituals to Modern Mongolia
- Disasters — Acts of Heaven? Records of Disasters in the Draft History of Qing
- Totemism of the peoples of Altai origin
- From the Sanskrit-Tibetan transliteration system to the Mongolian and the Manchu ali-gali script
- Moghul Tribal Traditions in Mirza Haydar Dughlat’s Tarikh-i Rashidi
- Two Primary Accounts on the Sino-Mongolian Negotiation (1449–1450)
- On the Buddhist Feature of the Uighur Pintung Documents
- An Old Uyghur text fragment related to the Tocharian B “History of Kuchean kings”
- Shamanism in the Secret History and the Kojiki
- Tibetan Buddhism and Nomadic Mongolian Regimes
- Old Turkic runic inscriptions in the Altai Mountains and their reflection of traditional beliefs and religion of the ancient Turkic population: the case of the inscription Kuttuu-I
- State and Church in Mongolia, a multidimensional relationship
- Роль мечетей Кыргызстана в религиозном воспитании молодежи
- Tengrism in the life of Turkic peoples
- “Meskhetian Turks”: an analysis of their ethnic self-identification and religion based on a sociolinguistic survey in 2013–2018
- Polyglot Names of Imperial Horses and Dogs
- A New Analysis of the Kalbak Taš XV (A-33) Inscription