An Oirat literary collection from the Aldan-Maadyr National Museum of the Tuva Republic
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https://doi.org/10.25178/nit.2019.4.5Keywords:
Oirat literature; literary collection; Clear Script; Buddhist literature; National Museum of the Tyva Republic; TuvaAbstract
The article introduces into scientific discourse the text of one Oirat literary collection contained in the Aldan-Maadyr National Museum the Tuva Republic. This is the only known manuscript copy of the Oirat collection which includes two famous works related to the same literary genre — precepts or instructions (Mong. сургаал) — though essentially different.
The first text is a small work which reveals a quintessence of the Buddhist teaching through a dialogue between the Buddha and a Brahmin. The story is referred to under different names, including as ‘The Tale of the Buddha and the Brahmin’. The text of this novel is known in its Clear Script version only, and currently there is no data regarding any Classical Mongolian versions.
The second work is widely known in Old Mongolian literature as ‘The Tale of the Boy Riding the Black Bull’. In Oirat Clear Script literature, the text is known as ‘The Tale of the Three-Year-Old Boy’.
The article provides a transliteration of the Oirat text accompanied by a Russian translation and respective comments.
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Бичеев Б. А., Бичелдей К. А. Ойратский литературный сборник из фондов Национального музея Тувы [Электронный ресурс] // Новые исследования Тувы. 2019, № 4. URL: https://nit.tuva.asia/nit/article/view/883 (дата обращения: дд.мм.гг.). DOI: 10.25178/nit.2019.4.5
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Baazr A. Bicheev, Kalmyk Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences
Doctor of Philosophy, Leading Research Associate, Department of Mongolian Philology, Kalmyk Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Postal address: 8 Ilishkin St., Elista 358000 Russian Federation.
Tel.: +7 (84722) 3-55-06.
Email: baazr@mail.ru
Kaadyr-ool A. Bicheldey, Aldan-Maadyr National Museum of the Republic of Tuva
Doctor of Philology, Professor, Director, Aldan-Maadyr National Museum of the Republic of Tuva.
Postal address: 30 Titov St., 667000 Kyzyl, Russian Federation.
Tel.: +7 (394-22) 2-28-04.
E-mail: bka.hural@mail.ru
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