Abstract:

The Ancient Uyghur Turkish, which is the developing hand of the Turkish language on the basis of the Buddhism and Manichism-based doctrines, is a period in which a religious literature gives rich materials that reflect the philosophies of these doctrines. Specifically according to Buddhism, with works translated from languages such as Sanskrit, Chinese, Toharca to Ancient Uyghur Turkish, the texts that reflect Buddhist understanding have been written in the Turkish language. The translation of Buddhist and Manichaist works from various languages in the ancient Uighur Turkish, according to Buddhism, was carried out by Buddhist Uighur priests. The Uighur priests, who wanted to translate beliefs based on these doctrines in the language they would understand, provided the processing of the Turkish language with the religious terminology they developed. The religious terms in the texts translated from foreign languages to Ancient Uyghur Turkish, the Uyghur priests who entered the search for Turkishization, combined the idea of faith they possess, with language consciousness. In this direction, the shareşti bayagut expression seen in the ancient Uyghur Turkish texts is one of the examples of the understanding of Turkishization against the Buddhist and Manichaist terms we are talking about. For the first time seen in Ancient Uyghur Turkish, the shereasti and bayagut expressions consisting of the shereasti bayagut twilight is a religious term that tells the "tuccar class" with important tasks within the Buddhist community. With this study, he was shareed and the shareed that formed this binary structure by placing the texts in which the bayagut expressions were first witnessed, and in the linguistic and religious assessments of the bayagut words, the value of the expressions in the Turkish language and culture will be revealed. From these expressions, in particular, a different version of the word bayagut in Islamic Turkish texts will be attempted to determine the conceptual value that the concept represents in both Buddhist and Islamic culture.