Old Uyghur Sitātapatrā dhāraṇī fragments preserved in the State Hermitage Museum

Abstract

Due to the publication of N. Pchelin and S.-C. Rashmann “Turfan manuscripts in the State Hermitage —a rediscovery” was published (2016), it became obvious that some some fragments of manuscripts and blockprints in different languages originally discovered during the four German Turfan expeditions (1902–1914) and later housed in the Museum fur Volkerkunde (Berlin) for exhibition reasons, are preserved nowadays in the depot of the State Hermitage Museum. The present article deals with two Old Uyghur fragments of Sitātapatrā dhāraṇī blockprinted during the Yuan era. This paper presents codicological description of the fragments, and transcription, transliteration, translation and facsimiles of the preserved parts of text