MONGOLIAN BIOGRAPHY OF ZANABAZAR (1635-1723), THE FIRST MONGOLIAN JETSUNDAMPA - A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF THE MANUSCRIPT FROM THE KOTWICZ COLLECTION

• Authors: Bareja-Starzynska Agata
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper investigates a manuscript of an untitled Mongolian biography of Zanabazar, the First Khalkha Jetsundampa (1635-1723), preserved in the Archives of Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences in Kraków, in the collection of Wladyslaw Kotwicz. The same text of the biography of Zanabazar was studied and translated to English by Charles Bawden in his work 'The Jebtsundamba Khutukhtus of Urga. Text, Translation and Notes' in 1961. The Modern Mongolian version based on several manuscripts of the biography preserved in Ulan Bator was published by Dashbadrakh in 1995.The present paper provides main information about the manuscript kept in the Kotwicz Collection together with its comparison to the fragments of other copies of the biography used by Bawden and Dashbadrakh for their studies. he

Keywords

EN

KOTWICZ COLLECTION (KRAKÓW); ZANABAZAR - FIRST KHALKHA JETSUNDAMPA (MONGOLIAN BIOGRAPHY)

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Rocznik Orientalistyczny
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 63
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 31-43
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Bareja-Starzynska Agata

• Agata Bareja-Skarzynska, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydzial Orientalistyczny, Zaklad Turkologii i Ludów Azji Srodkowej, ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA08781