国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
『東洋文庫所蔵』貴重書デジタルアーカイブ

The three foregoing Toyuk examples have nothing to indicate their connexion
with Buddhism. They are more likely to be Manichaean, a sect of which there
had been a considerable community in Turfân from a period long before the
probable date of these paintings. From the same shrine, however, comes the
painted domed ceiling, reproduced in plate x, wherein there seems to be nothing
relating to Manichaeism. But the early followers of Mani are said to have
believed also in the doctrine of the Buddha, and it is not improbable that a vacant
Buddhist shrine should have been appropriated for Manichaean worship and that
the paintings executed for the former tenant, being free of anything offensive to
the Manichaean conscience, should have been left undisturbed.
The contours of these three paintings are in black and show considerable freedom
in drawing, with a proper understanding of folds in drapery, although the details
of the patterns do not conform to the accidents of the folds.

Toy. VI. 0145
The young, clean-shaven monk on this fragment wears a buff-coloured robe
figured with red-brown bars. He is rather Mongolian in type, with a dome-shape
top to his head and normal ears. He carries a large, golden censer from which
ascending smoke is shown in black, wavy lines. To the right, on a pink-buff
ground, appears the egg-shape top of the bald head of a man, probably carrying
a lotus flower which is seen above on the end of a wavy stalk. Five vertical lines
of an inscription in Uigur are neatly written behind the shoulder of the young
monk. To the right of these are other inscriptions in Uigur, Hsi-hsia (?), and
Chinese.

PAINTED FRAGMENT FROM TOYUK, SHRINE V

Like most of the Toyuk shrines, this one, cut into the rock, had been ransacked
by local villagers for saleable material, and its walls completely stripped of paint-
ings. The piece here reproduced was purchased by Sir Aurel Stein from a man who
asserted that it came from this shrine.

Toy. V. 068
Seems to be part of the figure of a richly dressed female, of whose garments the
lower edge of a short tunic and part of the skirt only are present. The pendent left

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