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Although the development of Buddhism among Turks occurred in the Western Uyghur Khanate, Turks’ first encounter with Buddhism is thought to date back much earlier. Chinese sources often mention Turks as having had an interest in Buddhism however, no data is found on Buddhism in the inscriptions from the Turkish khaganates in Mongolia. In any case, the Buddhist Uyghur literature is the result of an intense translation activity in the Western Uyghur Khaganate. Despite the difficulty of discussing a Buddhist Uyghur canon through the written sources from the Western Uyghur Khaganate, the Uyghurs are understood to have belonged to certain schools of Buddhism. While some of the Uyghurs’ written sources are complete, others have survived to the present day in fragments. This study concerns the edition of seven fragments (archival numbers: Mainz 281, U 1206, U 1762, U 4997, U 5468, U 244, and U 5012) preserved in the Berlin Turfan Collection regarding different issues related to the Old Uyghur literature such as meditation, saṃsāra [the material world’s cycle of death and rebirth], and confession. This article consists of these fragments’ transcription, transliteration, translation into Turkish, explanations, and a glossary/index.

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