耿世民先生与回鹘佛教研究

耿世民先生是著名的回鹘文研究专家，对西域敦煌出土的回鹘文佛教文献进行了多方面的研究，成就卓著，为国际学术界所推重。他率先刊布了中国收藏的众多回鹘文文献，如《弥勒会见记》、《十业道譬喻蔓经》、《八十华严》、《大白莲社经》、《阿毗达磨俱舍论》等，极大地促进了世界突厥学界对回鹘文文献进行全面研究的工作。同时，他还以回鹘文佛教文献为基础，系统论述了佛教在回鹘中的传播及影响，具有重要学术意义，被称作中国突厥学的代表人物。

Prof. Geng Shimin and His Studies on the Old Uighur Buddhism

Prof. Geng Shimin, a famous Uighur expert who was in esteem by international academic community. He conducted extensive research into the Western and Dunhuang Buddhism literature unearthed Uighur, and got the outstanding achievement. He published numerous akarmapath~tvad~mam~tl~t, Buddh~tvata sakamah~t greatly promoted the research work on the world ature, he systematically studied the spread and Old Uighur Buddhist texts kept in China, such as Maitrisimit, Das＂ - vaipulyasatra, Abitaki, and Abhidharmakosa - s＇~tstra and so on, thus Uighur -Turkic literature. Meanwhile, based on Uighur Buddhist liter- influence of Buddhism on the Uighurs.