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SUMMARY:Religious and Linguistic Exchanges Between the North and the South
  of the Tarim Basin: Tocharians and Khotanese in Contact (5th–10th C.)
DTSTART:20230125T130000Z
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DESCRIPTION:BuddhistRoad Guest Lecture by Federico Dragoni (Leiden)\n\nThe
  lecture will be available live at Zoom. Please pre-register until 24 Janu
 ary\, 12 pm. Zoom lecture times: 2 pm (Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Rom\, Stockhol
 m\, Vienna)\; 8 pm (Peking)\; 8 am (East Coast)\n\nRecent research on the 
 linguistic contacts between Tocharian and Khotanese has uncovered a new co
 rpus of Khotanese loanwords in Tocharian. The majority of the loanwords ca
 n be dated before the diffusion of Buddhism in the Tarim Basin. Another gr
 oup of loanwords\, however\, can be traced back to the historical period o
 f attestation of Tocharian and Khotanese manuscripts (5th–10th c.). In t
 his group\, several Buddhist technical terms of Khotanese origin are to be
  found. The overall aim of this talk is to sketch possible scenarios of tr
 ansfer between the North and the South of the Tarim Basin: why were these 
 words borrowed into Tocharian and under what historical circumstances? Can
  they tell us something on the transfer of religious practices from Khotan
  into Tocharian speaking territories? To answer these questions\, I will f
 irst test the hypothesis that these linguistic traces of religious exchang
 e may be connected with the alleged presence of a Khotanese religious miss
 ion in Šorčuq around the 5th c. Successively\, I will examine several Kh
 otanese manuscript fragments of religious content that were found in Šor
 čuq itself and in the Kuča area.\n\n\nFederico Dragoni holds a PhD in Li
 nguistics from Leiden University and an MA in Iranian Studies from the Fre
 ie Universität Berlin. He is currently employed at the Leiden University 
 Centre for Linguistics as a Postdoc researcher and specialises in Khotanes
 e\, Tocharian and historical contact linguistics. His recent publications 
 include: Federico Dragoni\, “Materia medica Tocharo-Hvatanica\," Bulleti
 n of the School of Oriental and African Studies 84.2 (2021): 295–319\; F
 ederico Dragoni\, “The Tumshuqese Year of the Goat and the Fremdzeichen 
 x6\," Journal Asiatique 308.2 (2020): 215–223.\n\n\n 
LOCATION:Online Event
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/religious-and-linguistic-exchanges-betw
 een-the-nor/
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