Sanskrit in Tibet: Language in the Context of Cultural Reception

Authors

  • Павел Леонович Гроховский St. Petersburg State University, 7–9, Universitetskaya nab., St. Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation

Abstract

The article is devoted to main trends of Indian influence on the Tibetan language, literature and traditional sciences. Achievements of modern Tibetan studies are used to analize the word formation models in the Tibetan language which evolved under Sanskrit influence, the organization of Buddhist text corpus, translated from Sanskrit, including works dealing with traditional Buddhist sciences. The author states the prevailing importance of the Indian cultural influence upon the development of the Tibetan language, literature and traditional sciences (predominantly grammar and poetics).

Keywords:

tibetan language, Sanskrit, word formation, Buddhist canonical literature, Indo-Tibetan Buddhist sciences

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Published

2009-09-21

How to Cite

Гроховский, П. Л. (2009). Sanskrit in Tibet: Language in the Context of Cultural Reception. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, (3), 113–122. Retrieved from https://aasjournal.spbu.ru/article/view/1714

Issue

No. 3 (2009): Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Series 13. Asian Studies. African Studies

Section

Linguistics

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Articles of "Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies" are open access distributed under the terms of the License Agreement with Saint Petersburg State University, which permits to the authors unrestricted distribution and self-archiving free of charge.

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