回鹘文《大白莲社经》一叶残卷研究

Study on the Uighur Text Abitaki

写本为残卷。根据存有叶码的残叶来判断,它似为一多达四卷的佛经。在中国的这一叶属第三卷。根据写本的语言特点,该书成书或译成回鹘文在10—11世纪。但根据其字体和正字法特点,此写本则属于较后的13—14世纪。在某些叶的背面左方,用回鹘小字写有abitaki几卷几叶的字样。Abitaki应为汉文"阿弥陀经"的回鹘文拼音。经过与汉文《阿弥陀经》对照后,证明此书与《阿弥陀经》无关。而敦煌藏有回鹘文残片,左方除用回鹘文写有小字abitaki外,旁边尚用红墨写有五个汉字"大白莲社经",所以此书应为《大白莲社经》的回鹘文译本。

Recently we found 25 folios of the so-called Abitaki Uighur text in the Beijing National Library. The word ＂Abitaki＂ （〈Chinese ＂Amituojing/Amitaking=Sanskrit Amitabhā-sūtra＂） is used only as a code name written in small letter on the left side of some folios of the manuscript. But it has no thing to do with the famous scripture ＂Amitabha-sutra＂（one chapter, translated into Chinese by the famous Uighur scholar Kumarajiva in the 4th century AD）. I hold that it belongs to a lost Buddhist Chinese book called ＂Da Bai Lian She Jing＇（ The Great Lotus Society Sutra） consisting of 4 chapters of the Pure Land School and it was copied in Yuan Dynasty （1279-1368 AD）. Here I study and publish anotherl folio （belonging to 3^rd chapter） of the text.