Bachelor 2023/2024

Research Seminar Parallel Buddhist texts in Mongolian and Tibetan languages

Type: Compulsory course (Mongolia and Tibet)

Area of studies: Asian and African Studies

Delivered by: Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies

Where: Faculty of Humanities

When: 4 year, 3, 4 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Yana Leman

Language: English

ECTS credits: 4

Contact hours: 76

Course Syllabus

Abstract

In the corpus of Buddhist writings there are canonical and non-canonical texts. Mongolians translated texts of both kinds and most of them more than once. Parallel reading and comparing various Mongolian translations with their Tibetan originals, their textological, linguistic, philological analysis and historical description can contribute to such researching issues as the formation of Mongolian corpus of Buddhist terms, the influence of translations on literary language and help to trace the development of Mongolian language for seven centuries.