敦煌莫高窟北区B464窟出土有大量汉文、西夏文、回鹘文、藏文、蒙文、梵文文献及回鹘文木活字等,而更为重要的是,该窟中室、后室甬道和后室中写满了回鹘文经文题记.如此众多的回鹘文题记,在已发现的敦煌石窟中尚属首例.通过对回鹘文题记的释读,一方面可修正以往学界对窟内善财童子五十三参等壁画内容的解读;另一方面,可推知B464窟现存壁画应出自回鹘人之手,该窟时间下限可定为元代,是元代回鹘洞窟.%Many wooden block printed manuscripts in Chinese, Tangut, Uighur, Tibetan, Mongolian, San-skrit, and Uighur have been found in Cave B464 of the Northern Area at Mogao, the most significant of which are several inscriptions in Uighur written on the walls of the middle chamber, the connecting corridor, and the back chamber of this cave. Among the Mogao caves found so far, this is the only one with so many Uighur in-scriptions. Deciphering these inscriptions not only revises the previous interpretations of Mogao wall paintings, including a relevant image of the Pilgrimage of Sudhanakumara, but also helps researchers to infer that the extant murals could only have been completed no later than the Yuan dynasty, meaning that this particular cave was built sometime during the Yuan dynasty.
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