Gazi Türkiyat

Öz

The cosmos, which is supposed to have a beginning and an end, has an unprecedented design waiting to be discovered and expounded. Nothing in the cosmos happens without a reason. Everything is in a state of constantly changing and transforming. According to Buddhist doctrine, on the other hand, the cosmos represents a place existing with karmas, protected by them, shattered by their actions, and ruled by living things. The term Lokaprajñapti, which is used in Buddhism to refer to “knowledge of the world” and is the focus of this study, tells that the cosmos did not suddenly originate by itself; instead, it consists of the sum of the interdependent occasions or relations. The interdependent occasions are known in Buddhist doctrine as “dependent origination” and form a critical basis of Buddhist metaphysics. After enlightening, Buddha aspires to help his friends, articulating that he knows the nature of dependent origination, its cause, and ways to annihilate it so that they do not wander in saṃsāra and suffer more. This article will publish four fragments of the Old Uighur Lokaprajñapti, preserved in the Berlin Turfan Collection, with a volume of 89 lines. The archive numbers of these fragments are as follows: U 5340, U 5349, U 5637 and U 6004. This article aimed to reveal the transcription, transliteration, translation into Turkish language, explanations, and index/dictionary of this fragment that has yet to be published.