Religion and State in the Altaic World
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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

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Die Reihe SSGKT wurde 1980 vom ungarischen Turkologen György Hazai im Klaus Schwarz Verlag gegründet und widmet sich der Sprache, Kultur und Geschichte der Turkvölker. Geographisch nehmen die einzelnen Bände sowohl Zentral-, Nord-, West- und Ostasien als auch Teile Europas in den Blick. Dabei wird der zeitliche Bogen von den ersten Zeugnissen im 6. Jahrhundert bis in Moderne und Gegenwart gespannt.

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2022
ISBN
9783110730630
Edition
1

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

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Material Culture: Shagreen in the Bābur-nāma
  6. Polysemy of the Word “Täŋri”
  7. Return of State-Supported Buddhist Rituals to Modern Mongolia
  8. Disasters — Acts of Heaven? Records of Disasters in the Draft History of Qing
  9. Totemism of the peoples of Altai origin
  10. From the Sanskrit-Tibetan transliteration system to the Mongolian and the Manchu ali-gali script
  11. Moghul Tribal Traditions in Mirza Haydar Dughlat’s Tarikh-i Rashidi
  12. Two Primary Accounts on the Sino-Mongolian Negotiation (1449–1450)
  13. On the Buddhist Feature of the Uighur Pintung Documents
  14. An Old Uyghur text fragment related to the Tocharian B “History of Kuchean kings”
  15. Shamanism in the Secret History and the Kojiki
  16. Tibetan Buddhism and Nomadic Mongolian Regimes
  17. 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
  18. State and Church in Mongolia, a multidimensional relationship
  19. Роль мечетей Кыргызстана в религиозном воспитании молодежи
  20. Tengrism in the life of Turkic peoples
  21. “Meskhetian Turks”: an analysis of their ethnic self-identification and religion based on a sociolinguistic survey in 2013–2018
  22. Polyglot Names of Imperial Horses and Dogs
  23. A New Analysis of the Kalbak Taš XV (A-33) Inscription