The Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves (Chinese: 柏孜克里克千佛洞; pinyin: Bózīkèlǐkè Qiānfódòng, Uyghur: بزقلیق مىڭ ئۆيى ) is a complex of Buddhist cave grottos...
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the Bezeklik caves and Mogao grottoes. Old Uyghur king from Turfan, from the murals at the Dunhuang Mogao Caves. Old Uyghur prince from the Bezeklik murals...
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Iroungou cave Mbenaltembe cave Faucon cave Enkapune Ya Muto Kitum Cave Leviathan Cave Mau Mau Caves Njoro River Cave Paradise Lost Caves Kome Caves Ain Zayanah...
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Kucha (section Kucha and the Kizil Caves)
The Kizil Caves lie about 70 kilometres (43 mi) northwest of Kucha and were included within the rich fourth-century kingdom of Kucha. The caves claim origins...
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List of Tocharian (Agnean-Kuchean) peoples Tocharian clothing Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves Sogdia Takhar Province (Afghanistan) "Most of the Scythians...
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Buddha Caves Western Thousand Buddha Caves Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves Kumtura Thousand Buddha Caves Kizil Caves or Kizil Thousand Buddha Caves This...
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Buddhas of Bamiyan (section Adjoining caves)
Cave G, Bamyan (detail) Reconstructed mural of Cave G, Bamyan After the destruction of the Buddhas, 50 more caves were revealed. In 12 of the caves,...
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interdicted by the paramilitary organization Celestial Being. Bezeklik Caves – Buddhist cave grottos in Xinjiang, China Cities along the Silk Road List of...
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as physically East Eurasian, giving as an example the images in the Bezeklik Caves at temple 9, of the Uyghur patrons, until they began to mix with the...
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Guiyi Circuit (section Mogao Caves)
Yulin caves were also frequently visited by members of the Cao family, as it is attested by the many surviving donor images. For example, in Cave 16 the...
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Uyghurs sponsored the construction of many of the temple-caves in what is now called the Bezeklik Caves. Although they retained some of their culture, they...
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柏孜克里克第48窟中的凤首箜篌 公元十世纪 (translation: Figure 4 The phoenix-headed Konghou in Cave 48, Bezeklik, 10th century AD) [1] Archived May 18, 2007, at the Wayback Machine...
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Kucha Kizil Caves Kizilgaha caves Kumtura Caves Subashi Temple Dunhuang Miran Niya Rawak Mogao Caves Tumshuq Bezeklik Caves Dunhuang Caves Loulan Khotan...
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from the Bezeklik caves and Mogao grottoes. Uyghur woman from the Bezeklik murals Uyghur princesses Uyghur donors Uyghur prince from the Bezeklik murals...
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written in Chinese. These three Chinese writings, all found at the Mogao Caves among the Dunhuang manuscripts, and all written before the 9th century,...
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Kucha Kizil Caves Kizilgaha caves Kumtura Caves Subashi Temple Dunhuang Miran Niya Rawak Mogao Caves Tumshuq Bezeklik Caves Dunhuang Caves Loulan Khotan...
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long-distance trade routes, cave temples spread from South Asia to Central and East Asia. In Southeast Asia, natural caves were predominantly used as underground...
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Possible Bactrians revelling, on the ceiling of the central hall of Cave 1 of Ajanta caves, India (460–480 CE). The name of "Tocharians" was mistakenly applied...
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The Mogao Caves, also known as the Thousand Buddha Grottoes or Caves of the Thousand Buddhas, form a system of 500 temples 25 km (16 mi) southeast of the...
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Kucha Kizil Caves Kizilgaha caves Kumtura Caves Subashi Temple Dunhuang Miran Niya Rawak Mogao Caves Tumshuq Bezeklik Caves Dunhuang Caves Loulan Khotan...
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position of the caves from West to East. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kizil Caves. Ah-ai Grotto Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves Kumtura Thousand...
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Ah-ai Grotto (redirect from Ah-ai Cave)
famous sites in Xinjiang, such as Bezeklik Caves or Kizil Caves, the small Ah-ai Grotto is not widely known. The cave murals have suffered from vandalism...
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centuries A.D. in the Mogao Caves (Caves 327 and 465) and Yulin Caves in Dunhuang, China, and the Kizil Caves and Bezeklik Caves (cave 438) in Xinjiang, China...
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Kucha Kizil Caves Kizilgaha caves Kumtura Caves Subashi Temple Dunhuang Miran Niya Rawak Mogao Caves Tumshuq Bezeklik Caves Dunhuang Caves Loulan Khotan...
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