Siglinde Dietz, Arzu Kaygusuz

Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, Jahrgang 173 (2023), Ausgabe 2, Seite 379 - 410

The names of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas play an important role in Buddhism and have been translated into many different languages. The purpose of this study is to compare 100 names of Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and other saints in Chinese, Tibetan, Sanskrit, and Old Turkic. We have selected only names that contain metaphors or that are formed with certain terms in metaphor such as “fragrance,” “flower,” etc. (about 25 terms) in order to bring out the analogies and differences among the Buddha names and to deal with their various semantic, semiotic, and translation methodological features.

Arzu Kaygusuz

Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, Jahrgang 172 (2022), Ausgabe 2, Seite 429 - 438

The Turkic lexem yapaku (and similar forms) “plucked wool” is documented in the Divanu Lugat-it Türk of the eleventh century and in several recent Turkic idioms, including Republican Turkish. The lexeme has not yet been found in the Old Uighur sources, but a word previously interpreted as vapxau in an Old Uighur text should, in the author’s opinion, be read as yapaku. This is palaeographically very possible and also fits the context, in which an interesting metaphorical picture now emerges.

This article is written in German.