PD Dr. Yukiyo Kasai

Research Associate BuddhistRoad

Research Associate Buddhist Road (since 02/2018)
KHK Visiting Research Fellow (08/2017-01/2018)

Yukiyo Kasai started her Ph.D studies at Osaka-University (2001-2002) and specialized in the field of History of Uyghur Buddhism. She completed her dissertation at the Institute for Turkology of Free University Berlin (2002-2005) and participated in the 'Akademienvorhaben Turfanforschung' at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. After gaining her Ph.D., Yukiyo Kasai did research as a Fellow at Fritz Thyssen foundation (2006-2007) and DFG (2008). From 2008 to 2016, she was a researcher in the Academy project Turfan Studies at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and was rewarded with "Preis für Geisteswissenschaften" in 2011 at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Her cumulative post-doctoral thesis, submitted to the Faculty of East Asian Studies at RUB in 2021, focuses on religions in pre-Islamic Uyghur society (8th-14th centuries).

Most recently she has been working on Uyghur manuscripts from the 9th-14th centuries. Since Buddhism was introduced into the Uyghurs, a Turkish speaking tribe, it became their main religion. After their conversion, the Uyghurs produced many Buddhist texts in their own language (Old Uyghur) and also left inscriptions in different Buddhist sites. They are one of the most important materials which teach us the activities of the Uyghur Buddhists

Office Hours

on appointment

Education

Ph.D., „Die historische Analyse der uigurischen buddhistischen Kolophone“, Free University Berlin, 2005

M.A., „The Old Turkish Xuanzang-Biography - Analysis of the 7th and 8th volumes. Comparison with the Chinese original“, Osaka-University, 2001

B.A., East Asian History, Central Asian History, Osaka-University, 1998

Publications

2023

Doney, Lewis, Carmen Meinert, Henrik Hjort Sørensen, and Yukiyo Kasai. 2023. ‘The Meeting of Religious Traditions and of Beliefs in Eastern Central Asia’. In Buddhism in Central Asia III, edited by Carmen Meinert, Henrik Hjort Sørensen, Lewis Doney, and Yukiyo Kasai, 14:1–10. Leiden/Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004687288_002.

Kasai, Yukiyo. 2023a. ‘Prostration as Wuti Toudi 五體投地 or Wulun Toudi 五輪投地? : A Possible Trace of Contacts between Certain Uyghur Translators and Esoteric Buddhism’. In Buddhism in Central Asia III, edited by Carmen Meinert, Henrik Hjort Sørensen, Lewis Doney, and Yukiyo Kasai, 14:350–72. Leiden/Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004687288_012.

———. 2023b. ‘Manichaeism and Buddhism in Contact: The Significance of the Uyghur History and Its Literary Tradition’. Entangled Religions 14 (2). https://doi.org/10.46586/er.14.2023.9645.

———. 2023c. ‘Review: Avalokiteśvara-Sūtras. Edition altuigurischer Übersetzungen nach Fragmenten aus Turfan und Dunhuang.: by Kara, György; Zieme, Peter; Tugusheva, Lilia’. Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 118 (2): 142–45. https://doi.org/10.1515/olzg-2023-0049.

Meinert, Carmen, Henrik Hjort Sørensen, Lewis Doney, and Yukiyo Kasai, eds. 2023. Buddhism in Central Asia III: Impacts of Non-Buddhist Influences, Doctrines (version Publisher’s Version). Dynamics in the History of Religions 14. Leiden/Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004687288.

2022

Kasai, Yukiyo. 2022a. ‘Central Asian and Iranian Influence in Old Uyghur Buddhist Manuscripts: Book Forms and Donor Colophons’. In The Syntax of Colophons, edited by Nalini Balbir and Giovanni Ciotti, 27:373–97. Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110795271-013.

———. 2022b. ‘The Avalokiteśvara Cult in Turfan and Dunhuang in the Pre-Mongolian Period ’. In Buddhism in Central Asia II, edited by Henrik Hjort Sørensen and Yukiyo Kasai, 12:244–69. Leiden: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004508446_009.

———. 2022c. ‘Dynamics, Stability & Tradition: The Role of the Religions of Iranian Speakers in Central and Eastern Asia’. Entangled Religions 11 (6). https://doi.org/10.46586/er.11.2022.9771.

Kasai, Yukiyo, Henrik Hjort Sørensen, and Haoran Hou. 2022. ‘Introduction Central Asia: Sacred Sites and the Transmission of Religious Practices ’. In Buddhism in Central Asia II, edited by Henrik Hjort Sørensen and Yukiyo Kasai, 12:1–13. Leiden: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004508446_002.

Sørensen, Henrik Hjort, and Yukiyo Kasai, eds. 2022. Buddhism in Central Asia II: Practices and Rituals, Visual and Material Transfer (version Publisher’s Version). Dynamics in the History of Religions 12. Leiden: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004508446.

2021

Esler, Dylan, and Yukiyo Kasai. 2021a. ‘Introduction: Buddhist Rituals and Practices in Central Asia’. Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 44: 405–8. https://doi.org/10.2143/jiabs.44.0.3290297.

———. 2021b. ‘Introduction—Buddhist Rituals and Practices in Central Asia: Texts and Material Culture’. Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 44: 405–8. https://doi.org/10.2143/jiabs.44.0.3290297.

Kasai, Yukiyo. 2021a. ‘Old Uyghur Translations of Buddhist Texts and Their Usage’. In Premodern Translation, edited by Sonja Brentjes and Alexander Fidora, 2:13–31. Turnhout: Brepols Publ.s. https://doi.org/10.1484/m.cat-eb.5.122132.

———. 2021b. ‘Talismans Used by the Uyghur Buddhists and Their Relationship with the Chinese Tradition’. Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 44: 527–56. https://doi.org/10.2143/jiabs.44.0.3290301.

2020

Kasai, Yukiyo, ed. 2020a. Dynamics, Stability and Tradition: The Role of the Religions of Iranian Speakers in Central and Eastern Asia (version Publisher’s Version). Entangled Religions 11. Bochum: Ruhr-Universität-Bochum. https://doi.org/10.46586/er.11.6.2022.

———. 2020b. The Bodhisattva Mañjuśrī, Mt. Wutai, and Uyghur Pilgrims (version Publisher’s Version). BuddhistRoad Paper, 5.4. Bochum: BuddhistRoad, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Center for Religious Studies (CERES ). https://doi.org/10.13154/rub.br.131.118.

———. 2020c. ‘Uyghur Legitimation and the Role of Buddhism’. In Buddhism in Central Asia I, edited by Carmen Meinert and Henrik Hjort Sørensen, 11:61–90. Leiden, Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004417731_005.

2019

Kasai, Yukiyo. 2019. Five Old Uyghur Abhidharma Texts Containing Brāhmī Elements (version Publisher’s Version). BuddhistRoad Paper, 1.1. Bochum: BuddhistRoad, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Center for Religious Studies (CERES ). https://doi.org/10.13154/rub.br.112.98.

2018

Kasai, Yukiyo. 2018. ‘Jens Wilkens: Buddhistische Erzählungen aus dem alten Zentralasien. Edition der altuigurischen Daśakarmapathāvadānamālā. 3 volumes. (Berliner Turfantexte.) xxxvii, 1688 pp. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2016. €200. ISBN 978 2 503 56776 1.’ Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x18000381.

Meinert, Carmen, Henrik Hjort Sørensen, Erika Forte, and Yukiyo Kasai. 2018. ‘Dynamics in Buddhist Transfer in Eastern Central Asia 6th-14th Centuries: A Project Report by BuddhistRoad Team’. Medieval Worlds 8 (November): 126–34. https://doi.org/10.1553/medievalworlds_no8_2018s126.

2017

Kasai, Yukiyo. 2017a. ‘Ein Erzähltext unter den alttürkischen Fragmenten mit Brāhmī-Elementen’. In Zur lichten Heimat, 25:253–58. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

———. 2017b. ‘Multiscripturality in Old Uyghur: Relationship between Scripts and Religions’. In Silk Road Cultures, edited by Barbara Meisterernst, 4:191–210. London: Routledge.

———. 2017c. ‘The Old Uyghur Extract of the Za Ahan Jing (T. 99). The Third of Three Folios Preserved in the Hedin Collection (1935.52.0011)’. In The Old Uyghur Āgama Fragments Preserved in the Sven Hedin Collection, Stockholm, edited by Yukiyo Kasai, Simone-Christiane Raschmann, Håkan Wahlquist, and Peter Zieme, 15:177–96. Turnhout: Brepols Publ.s.

———. 2017d. ‘The Old Uyghur Extract of the Zhong Ahanjing (T. 26). Three of Eight Folios Preserved in the Hedin Collection (1935.52.0004-0006)’. In The Old Uyghur Āgama Fragments Preserved in the Sven Hedin Collection, Stockholm, edited by Yukiyo Kasai, Simone-Christiane Raschmann, Håkan Wahlquist, and Peter Zieme, 15:73–112. Turnhout: Brepols Publ.s.

Kasai, Yukiyo, and Hirotoshi Ogihara. 2017. Die altuigurischen Fragmente mit Brāhmī-Elementen (version Publisher’s Version). Berliner Turfantexte 38. Turnhout: Brepols Publ.s.

Kasai, Yukiyo, Simone-Christiane Raschmann, Håkan Wahlquist, and Peter Zieme, eds. 2017. The Old Uyghur Āgama Fragments Preserved in the Sven Hedin Collection, Stockholm (version Publisher’s Version). Silk Road Studies 15. Turnhout: Brepols Publ.s.

2016

Kasai, Yukiyo. 2016a. ‘Vogel, Hans Ulrich: Marco Polo Was in China. New Evidence from Currencies, Salts and Revenues. Leiden / Boston: Brill 2013. XXXII, 643 S.’ Orientalistische Literaturzeitung. Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/olzg-2016-0020.

———. 2016b. ‘Zur Verwendung und Verbreitung der altuigurischen buddhistischen Literatur’. In Eine hundertblättrige Tulpe, edited by Ingeborg Hauenschild, Matthias Kappler, and Barbara Keller-Heinkele, 224–31. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag.

———. 2016c. ‘聖人の布施を讃える古ウイグル語讃歌’. In シルクロードと近代日本の邂逅, edited by Masaharu Arakawa and Mikio Shibata, 277–93. Tōkyō: Bensei Shuppan.

2015

Kasai, Yukiyo. 2015a. ‘Sanskrit Word Forms Written in Brāhmī Script in the Old Uyghur Buddhist Texts’. Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 38: 401–22. https://doi.org/10.2143/jiabs.38.0.3134550.

———. 2015b. ‘Stifter in alttürkischen buddhistischen Texten aus dem 10. bis 14. Jahrhundert’. In Stiftungen zwischen Politik und Wirtschaft, edited by Sitta von Reden, 66:141–56. Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110400007-008.

———. 2015c. ‘The Old Turkish Explanation on Buddha’s Reunion with His Father Śuddhodana’. In Tocharian Texts in Context, edited by Melanie Malzahn, Michae͏̈l Peyrot, Hannes Fellner, and Theresa-Susanna Illés, 99–108. Bremen: Hempen Verlag.

———. 2015d. ‘The Old Turkish Text Based on the Abhidharmakośa-Bhāsya’. In 西域-中亚语文学研究, edited by Abdurishid Yakup, 251–63. Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe.

———. 2015e. ‘Zum Gebrauch der Brāhmī-Schrift in alttürkischen buddhistischen Texten’. In Kutadgu nom bitig, edited by Elisabetta Ragagnin, Jens Wilkens, and Gökhan Şilfeler, 87:225–35. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

———. 2015f. ‘ウイグル仏教における弥勒信仰－その起源と発展への試論－’. In アジア諸地域における仏教の多様性とその現代的可能性の総合的研究, 2014:181–200. Kyōto: 龍谷大学アジア仏教文化研究センター, Research Center for Buddhist Cultures in Asia. http://barc.ryukoku.ac.jp/research/upfile/2014年度研究報告書.pdf.

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2014

Kasai, Yukiyo. 2014a. ‘Journal Review of the Studies on the Inner Asian Languages Vol. 28, 2013’. Orientalistische Literaturzeitung. Berlin: De Gruyter.

———. 2014b. ‘One Further Fragment of the Old Turkish Commentary on the Vimalakīrtinirdeśa-Sūtra’. In Semih Tezcan’a Armağan, 199–206.

———. 2014c. ‘Stark, Sören: Die Alttürkenzeit in Mittel- und Zentralasien: Archäologische und historische Studien, 2008, Wiesbaden’. Orientalistische Literaturzeitung. Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/olzg-2014-0135.

———. 2014d. ‘The Chinese Phonetic Transcriptions of the Old Turkish Words in the Chinese Sources from 6th -9th c.–Focused on the Original Word of Tujue 突厥’. Studies on the Inner Asian Languages 29: 57–135.

———. 2014e. ‘有关‘十二缘起: 的回鹘语佛经’. In 西域考古・史地・语言研究新视野　黄文弼与中端西北科学考査团国际学术研讨会论文集, edited by Xinjiang Rong, Yuqi Zhu, Wenbi Huang, and 荣新江, 348–55. Beijing: Ke xue chu ban she.

2013

Kasai, Yukiyo. 2013a. ‘Der Ursprung des alttürkischen Maitreya-Kults’. In Die Erforschung des Tocharischen und die alttürkische Maitrisimit, edited by Yukiyo Kasai, Abdurishid Yakup, and Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst, 17:67–104. Turnhout: Brepols Publ.s.

———. 2013b. ‘Journal review of the Studies on the Inner Asian Languages Vol. 27, 2012’. Orientalistische Literaturzeitung. Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1524/olzg.2013.0044.

Kasai, Yukiyo, Abdurishid Yakup, and Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst, eds. 2013. Die Erforschung Des Tocharischen Und Die Alttürkische Maitrisimit: Symposium Anlässlich Des 100. Jahrestages Der Entzifferung Des Tocharischen, Berlin, 3. Und 4. April 2008 (version Publisher’s Version). Silk Road Studies 17. Turnhout: Brepols Publ.s.

Kudara, Kogi. 2013. ‘Das uigurische Yuanjuejing und sein Kommentar’. Translated by Yukiyo Kasai. http://edoc.bbaw.de/volltexte/2013/2383/.

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2012

Kasai, Yukiyo. 2012a. ‘Die alttürkischen Wörter aus Natur und Gesellschaft in chinesischen Quellen (6. und 9. Jh.): der Ausgangsterminus der chinesischen Transkription tū jué 突厥’. In Die Wunder der Schöpfung, edited by Brigitte Heuer, Barbara Kellner-Heinkele, and Claus Schönig, 9:81–141. Würzburg: Ergon-Verlag.

———. 2012b. ‘Raschmann, Simone-Christiane; Wilkens, Jens (Eds.): Fragmenta Buddhica Uigurica. Ausgewählte Schriften von Peter Zieme, 2009, Berlin’. 仏教学研究. Kyōto: Bukkyō-Gakkai.

———. 2012c. ‘The Edition of the Old Turkish Commentary on the Vimalakīrtinirdeśa-Sūtra’. In 首届中国少数民族古籍文献国际学术研讨会论文集, edited by Jianming Huang, Hongyin Nie, and Lan Ma, 401–9. Beijing: Min zu chu ban she.

———. 2012d. ‘The Outline of the Old Turkish Commentary on the Vimalakīrtinirdeśa-Sūtra’. In Dunhuang Studies, edited by Irina Popova and Yi Liu, 106–11. St. Petersburg: Slavia.

———. 2012e. ‘Journal review of the Studies on the Inner Asian Languages Vol. 26, 2011’. Orientalistische Literaturzeitung. Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1524/olzg.2012.0051.

2011

Kasai, Yukiyo. 2011a. Der alttürkische Kommentar zum Vimalakīrtinirdeśa-Sūtra (version Publisher’s Version). Berliner Turfantexte 29. Turnhout: Brepols Publ.s.

———. 2011b. ‘Die uigurischen buddhistischen Kolophone’. Jahrbuch der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 2011 (1): 202–6. https://doi.org/10.1515/jbg-2011-0017.

———. 2011c. ‘Studies on the Inner Asian Languages Vol. 25, 2010’. Orientalistische Literaturzeitung. Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1524/olzg.2011.0042.

———. 2011d. ‘The Non-Chinese Materials in the Berlin Turfan Collection and Their Edition’. In 中央アジア出土の仏教写本, edited by Ryojun Hakubutsukan and Ryūkoku Daigaku, 133–43.

———. 2011e. ‘古ウイグル語仏典奥書−その起源と発展’. In ソグドからウイグルへ−シルクロード東部の民族と文化の交流, edited by Takao Moriyasu, 301–34. Tōkyō: Kyūko Shoin.

———. 2011f. ‘Mirsultan, Aysima: Die alttürkische Xuanzang-Biographie X. Nach der Handschrift von Paris, Peking und St. Petersburg sowie nach dem Transkript von Annemarie v. Gabain ediert, übersetzt und kommentiert. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2010. 360 S.’ Orientalistische Literaturzeitung. Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1524/olzg.2011.0052.

2009

Kasai, Yukiyo. 2009a. ‘Der Einfluß der Vijñānavāda-Schule im alttürkischen Kommentar zum Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa-Sūtra’. In 突厥語文学研究−耿世民教授80華誕記念論文集, edited by Dingjing Zhang and Yakup Abdurishid, 298–316. Beijing: Zhongyang minzu daxue chubanshe.

———. 2009b. ‘Knüppel, Michael/Winkler, Eberhard (Hrsg.): Ungarn, Türken und Mongolen. Kleine Schriften von Hansgerd Göckenjan, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2007’. Orientalistische Literaturzeitung. Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1524/olzg.2009.0046.

———. 2009c. ‘国際学会　トカラ語研究と古代トルコ語 Maitrisimit−トカラ語解読百周年を記念して’. Tōhōgaku 117: 212–16.

2008

Kasai, Yukiyo. 2008a. ‘Die uigurische Überlieferung der Legende von der Gründung des Tempels Baimasi’. In Aspects of research into Central Asian Buddhism, edited by Peter Zieme, 16:77–93. Turnhout: Brepols Publ.s.

———. 2008b. Die uigurischen buddhistischen Kolophone (version Publisher’s Version). Berliner Turfantexte 26. Turnhout: Brepols Publ.s.

Yoshida, Yutaka, Yukiyo Kasai, and Christiane Reck. 2008. ‘Die buddhistischen sogdischen Texte in der Berliner Turfansammlung und die Herkunft des buddhistischen sogdischen Wortes bodhisattva: zum Gedenken an Prof. Kōgi Kudaras Arbeiten an den sogdischen Texten’. Acta orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 61 (3): 325–58. https://doi.org/10.1556/aorient.61.2008.3.3.

2007

Kasai, Yukiyo. 2007. ‘Semet, Ablet: Lexikalische Untersuchungen zur uigurischen Xuanzang-Biographie. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005. 239 S.’ Orientalistische Literaturzeitung. Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1524/olzg.2007.102.2.182.

2006

Kasai, Yukiyo. 2006. ‘トカラ語より翻訳された未比定のウイグル語仏典註釈書’. Studies on the Inner Asian languages 21: 21–47. https://ir.library.osaka-u.ac.jp/repo/ouka/all/16208/.

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2004

Kasai, Yukiyo. 2004. ‘Ein Kolophon um die Legende von Bokug Kagan’. Studies on the Inner Asian languages 19: 1–27. https://ir.library.osaka-u.ac.jp/repo/ouka/all/17161/sial19-001.pdf.

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Projects and Affiliations

Associate Professor of Central Asian History of Religions and Center for Religious Studies

Coordinator of RELIGUR

Member of Quality Improvement Commission

Former Projects and Affiliations

Individual Researcher of Uyghur Donors and Old Uyghur Texts

Research Associate of BuddhistRoad

Fellow of Käte Hamburger Kolleg