{"id":1758,"date":"2020-03-29T18:52:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T18:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2020-04-12T21:58:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T21:58:22","slug":"uyghur-legitimation-and-the-role-of-buddhism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/?p=1758","title":{"rendered":"Uyghur Legitimation and the Role of Buddhism  &#8212; Yukiyo Kasai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Introduction<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle1\">In the middle of the 8th century, Uyghurs, a Turkic speaking nomadic tribe, established their Empire, the East Uyghur Kaganate (ca. 744\u2013840), in Mongolia. After the demise of this Kaganate, most of them moved into the eastern part of the Tianshan (<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle3\">\u5929\u5c71<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle1\">) area, where they founded a new kingdom, the West Uyghur Kingdom (second half 9th c.\u201313th c.). This kingdom continued to exist even after the rise of \u010cinggiz Khan (1162?\u20131227), to whom the Uyghur king at that time voluntarily submitted. Throughout this extended period, the Uyghurs experienced many cultural, religious, and political changes that had an impact on representations of their rulers\u2019 power. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle1\">This chapter discusses how the Uyghur rulers officially tried to legitimate their power based on their different beliefs and political relationships.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click<strong>\u00a0<span class=\"fontstyle0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/9789004415621-Buddhism-in-Central-Asia-I-Uyghur-Legitimation-and-the-Role-of-Buddhism.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here<\/a><\/span><\/strong> for Full Text.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<strong><span class=\"fontstyle0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brill.com\/view\/book\/edcoll\/9789004417731\/BP000004.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buddhism in Central Asia I, Chapter 3<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1759\" style=\"width: 1731px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Uyghur-Legitimation-and-the-Role-of-Buddhism-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1759\" class=\"wp-image-1759 size-full\" title=\"Chapter 3: Uyghur Legitimation and the Role of Buddhism\" src=\"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Uyghur-Legitimation-and-the-Role-of-Buddhism-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1721\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Uyghur-Legitimation-and-the-Role-of-Buddhism-scaled.jpg 1721w, https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Uyghur-Legitimation-and-the-Role-of-Buddhism-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Uyghur-Legitimation-and-the-Role-of-Buddhism-689x1024.jpg 689w, https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Uyghur-Legitimation-and-the-Role-of-Buddhism-768x1142.jpg 768w, https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Uyghur-Legitimation-and-the-Role-of-Buddhism-1033x1536.jpg 1033w, https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Uyghur-Legitimation-and-the-Role-of-Buddhism-1377x2048.jpg 1377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1721px) 100vw, 1721px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chapter 3: Uyghur Legitimation and the Role of Buddhism &#8212; Yukiyo Kasai<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction In the middle of the 8th century, Uyghurs, a Turkic speaking nomadic tribe, established their Empire, the East Uyghur Kaganate (ca. 744\u2013840), in Mongolia. After the demise of this Kaganate, most of them moved into the eastern part of the Tianshan (\u5929\u5c71) area, where they founded a new kingdom, the West Uyghur Kingdom (second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uyghur-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1774,"href":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions\/1774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}