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1. Sogdian

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   Religious Literature
   The most substantial surviving corpus of Sogdian literature derives from religious traditions, reflecting the cosmopolitan nature of Sogdiana. Major textual discoveries come from Buddhist caves near Dunhuang, Christian (Nestorian) documents, and Manichaean fragments recovered from Turfan.
   Sogdian Buddhist texts, translated from Sanskrit and Prakrit, often display a unique theological flavor where concepts like nirvana are rendered with terms that emphasize the *absen…