The verso of a scroll of the Old Uyghur version of the Säkiz yükmäk yaruk
sudur contains an Old Uyghur translation of the Kaimeng yaoxun 開蒙要訓, a textbook
for learning Chinese which is known from the Dunhuang finds only. The Uyghur fragments
of this version are preserved in the Serindia Collection of the Institute of Oriental
Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences as well as in the Turfan Collection of
the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In this paper one section
is given in transliteration, transcription and in translation based on the Chinese Vorlage.
On October 2, 2023, the Department of Far Eastern Studies, IOM RAS, will hold the “Ideology of Traditional China” Conference dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the outstanding Russian Sinologist Alexander S. Martynov (1933–2013).
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