Moriyasu Takao. A Study on the History of Uighur Manichaeism: Research on Some Manichaean Materials and their Historical Background

Osaka : Faculty of Letters, Osaka University, 1991. — 250 p. — (Memoirs of the Faculty of Letters, Osaka University 31/32).This PDF is for personal research only and not for any commercial use.
Please go to the publisher's website to order a paper copy of this book.The most important Japanese study on the history of Uyghur Manichaeism provides new insights into the history of the Uyghurs and Manichaeism on the basis of a detailed analysis of Manichaean wall paintings from the cave temples of Bäzäklik and a decree on the administration of Manichaean monasteries. In the first chapter, the volume contains detailed image analyses as well as the transcription and the philologically and historically detailed annotated translation of the aforementioned decree in the second chapter. The last chapter summarizes the individual results with regard to their significance for the image of Uyghur history. The appendix contains an explanatory chronology of the Uyghur khans, the transcription and annotated translations of two spiritual Uighur text fragments.