Misspelling “Buddha”: The officially commissioned Tibetan Aparimitāyur-nāma mahāyāna-sūtras from Dunhuang and the study of Old Tibetan orthography
Misspelling “Buddha”: The officially commissioned Tibetan Aparimitāyur-nāma mahāyāna-sūtras from Dunhuang and the study of Old Tibetan orthography
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拼写错误的“佛陀”：官方委托敦煌藏文《阿波罗蜜多佛名大乘经》与古藏文正字法研究
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10.1017/s0041977x15000981
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2016
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Brandon Dotson
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Brandon Dotson
本文通过对现存于大英图书馆的敦煌藏书《āyur-nāma mahāyāna-Sūtra》1,600余册的档案研究，揭示了中古藏文文字的正字法规范。本文在编校的基础上，以近200个抄本外文为语料库，将这组经文的正字规范与其他古代藏文手稿和碑文的正字规范进行了比较。它提出，古藏文文字年代的最重要标志之一是在10世纪越来越多地使用i(S)形式的所有格和作格助词作为单独的音节，以及在中古藏文文字中相对缺乏终结词的tu形式。此外，本研究还对藏语格助词的各种形式的发展提出了建议。
Abstract Drawing on the archival study of over 1,600 copies of the Tibetan Aparimitāyur-nāma mahāyāna-sūtra (Tib.: Tshe dpag du myed pa'i mdo) produced in Dunhuang from the 820s to the 840s and now kept in the British Library, this article sheds light on the orthographic norms of Middle Old Tibetan writing. Based on editors' corrections, and on a corpus of nearly 200 transcribed explicits, the article compares the orthographic norms of this group of sutras with those of other dated Old Tibetan manuscripts and inscriptions. It proposes that among the most important markers for dating Old Tibetan writing are the increased use in the tenth century of the ’i(s) form of the genitive and ergative particles as a separate syllable, and the relative absence of the tu form of the terminative particle in Middle Old Tibetan writing. Additionally, the study offers suggestions concerning the development of the various forms of Tibetan case particles.