Notes to Inner Asian Mediaeval Musical Terminology and Related Buddhist Art
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Music was important part of Inner Asian religious and public festivities. In 2001, György Kara published an article about Late Mediaeval Turkic Elements in Mongolian. It also contains chainloans for musical instruments which are connected not only to Mongolian and Turkic world, but in fact, to multilingual Tarim Basin, where especially Kuchean music was famous and highly developed tradition mediating the influences from India and Kashmir. In the first part, this paper will enrich terminological connections with data from Tocharian A, Tocharian B and other Inner Asian languages. In the second part other archaeological data and especially Inner Asian mediaeval Buddhist art will be presented in and an attempt to illustrate how oral and textual traditions were interconnected with Buddhism, worldly persons and royal families in the area, where also directly depicted Mongols accessed and practiced Buddhism already at the beginning of the second millennium AD. |
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