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As a Buddhist term, sūtras are defined as Buddhist discource books. Together with the abhidharma and the vinaya, sūtras form the Sanskrit Buddhist canon known as the tripiṭaka “three baskets”. Sūtras have a very important place in the Uyghur literature that developed on the basis of Buddhism. In the Buddhist Uyghur literature, besides the complete and voluminous sūtras, there are also sūtra texts that have survived to the present day in smaller volumes, sometimes only in fragments. Works such as Altun Yaruk Sudur, Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra, Vimalakīrtinirdeśasūtra, Abitaki Sudur, Vajracchedikāsūtra, Insadisūtra, Buddhāvataṃsakasūtra and Säkiz Yükmäk Sudur can be mentioned among the prominent among the Old Uyghur sūtras. In addition to these works, there are other sūtras of the Sanskrit Buddhist canon identified in the Old Uyghur literature. However, some fragments whose location has not been identified in the Buddhist corpus today are thought to be fragments of sūtras. This study focuses on unpublished fragments of Old Uyghur sūtras. For this purpose, the philological edition of the following six fragments, all of which are preserved in the Berlin Turfan Collection, is presented in the article: U 2080 (o. F.); U 2212 (TI 141); U 2386 (T I μ 512); U 3519 (o. F.); U 3898 (T III S 313) and U 4943 (T II S 21; T II 973; T II S 20.973). This article deals with the transcription, transliteration, translation into Turkish, explanations, and the dictionary and index of the fragments in question.

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