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SUMMARY:Newly Discovered Old Uyghur Manuscripts: Practice and Rituals of t
 he Uyghur Buddhists
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DESCRIPTION:BuddhistRoad Guest Lecture by Ma Fu (Beijing)\n\nThe lecture w
 ill be available online on Zoom. Please pre-register until 16 May 2023\, 1
 2 pm. Zoom lecture times 2: 2 pm (Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Rom\, Vienna)\; 8 p
 m (Beijing)\; 8 am (East Cost)\n\nDue to the lack of literary records\, bo
 th the private religious practices and the public rituals of the Uighur Bu
 ddhist communities can mainly be traced in unearthed manuscripts. Recent e
 xcavations in important Buddhist sites in Turfan such as Tuyuq have brough
 t about significant new material on the everyday life of Buddhist monks an
 d practitioners of the Old Uyghur time. Practice and ritual texts in Old U
 yghur have also been re-discovered in public and private collections in Ch
 ina these days\, revealing various aspects of the religious life of the Ol
 d Uyghur Buddhists in their homeland and in China proper.\n\nMa Fu is a Hi
 storian. He is Assistant Professor of Chinese History at Beijing Universit
 y and specialises in the History of Pre-Islamic Eastern Central Asia and t
 he Silk Road. His recent publications include Fu Ma 付馬\, Sichou zhilu 
 shang de Xizhou Huihu wangchao: 9~13 shiji Zhongya dongbu lishi yanjiu 絲
 綢之路上的西州回鶻王朝: 9–13 世紀中亞東部歷史研究. 
 [The West Uyghur Kingdom on the Silk Road: Study on the History of Eastern
  Central Asia during 9th–13th Centuries] (Beijing: Social Science Academ
 ic Press\, 2019) and Ma Fu\, “Buddhist and Christian Relay Posts on the 
 Silk Road (9th–12th c.)”\, Central Asiatic Journal 63.1–2 (2021): 23
 9–255.\n\nTo join the lecture\, please register at https://ruhr-uni-boc
 hum.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Eod-ispzIpH9Y6W94lHyB61Tq52_9Y7MvI
LOCATION:Online Event
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/newly-discovered-old-uyghur-manuscripts
 -practice-a/
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