A translation attempt on the old Uyghur Book of the Dead

This study, which has been prepared as a master thesis, is based on the first part, between lines 1-236, of the text which found by Aurel Stein in Dunhuang and registered at the Aurel Stein Manuscript Collection in Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books of the British Library with number Or. 8212 (109). The text was previously published by P. Zieme and G. Kara in 1978 by name Ein Uighurisches Totenbuch with its transcription, German translation, notes, and dictionary. In this study, translation of the Text A (which has the same name with entire study), transcription of Uyghur text which is based on original text and explanations, especially in the explanations section, translated on the basis of the study cited above. This study consists of 6 chapters. In chapter ''1. Introduction'' writing which is the topic of this study and work done on the writing, the method of the study and properties of the writing are mentioned. In chapter ''2. Text' 'text translation and letter translation of the text which is the topic of this study are mentioned. Translation of the text into modern Turkish is mentioned in chapter ''3. Translation''. Explanations of the previous publication and translations of these explanations, adding and corrections to these explanations are mentioned in chapter ''4. Explanations''. Two indexes are prepared in chapter ''5. Index'': ''5.1 Index in Uighur '' and ''5.2 Index of Reduplications''. In chapter ''5.1 Index in Uighur'' headwords are in old Uighur and meanings are in modern Turkish. In Uighur index Chinese, Tibetan and Sanskrit translations of some words are also given. In chapter '' 5.2 Index of Reduplication'' repetitions on this study and meanings of these reduplications are mentioned. Closing chapter is ''6. Conclusion''. In addition to these chapters, the original text which is used in this study can be found in adding the chapter.