Rawak Vihara

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Rawak Vihara , the ruins of the Buddhist monastery town of Rawak ( Chinese  热 瓦克 佛寺 遗址 , Pinyin Rèwǎkè Fósì Yízhǐ ), are located about 40 km northeast of Hotan in the Taklamakan Desert, in Lop County in the Hotan administrative district of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the west of the People's Republic of China .

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In the center there was a 12 m high stupa with a cruciform, rectangular floor plan. It probably belongs to the reliquary type. The complex is reminiscent of stupas of the Gandhara style in Peshawar and Balkh . The archaeologist Aurel Stein , who toured the site in 1901 and 1906, found remains of 91 Buddha and Bodhisattva figures , often of considerable size, often destroyed by the wind , and these too are reminiscent of those from Gandhara. Wall paintings were also discovered there. Chinese archaeologist Huang Wenbi inspected the site in 1929.

Rawak Vihara is dated to the Southern and Northern Dynasties and was part of the Kingdom of Hotan . Sculpture motifs were taken up again in Dunhuang , e.g. B. an aureole formed from radially arranged Buddhas around a central figure. The site has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China in Xinjiang (5-140) since 2001 . Some works of art from Rawak can be found in the Trinkler collection in the Überseemuseum Bremen .

literature

  • Aurel M. Stein: Ancient Khotan: Detailed report of archaeological explorations in Chinese Turkestan. 2 vols. Clarendon Press. Oxford 1907. [1]
  • Peter Hopkirk : The Silk Road. In search of lost treasure in Chinese Central Asia . rororo, Reinbek near Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-499-18564-4 .
  • Gerd Gropp: Archaeological finds from Khotan, Chinese East Turkestan. The Trinkler Collection in the Übersee-Museum, Bremen. Bremen 1974 (= Monographs of Wittheit zu Bremen, 11 (= Scientific results of the German Central Asia Exped. 1927/28, Part 3))

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://www.uygur.org/de/turkistan/28.html
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.htww.gov.cn
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.htww.gov.cn
  4. ↑ http://www.uygur.org/de/turkistan/28.html

Coordinates: 37 ° 20 ′ 46 ″  N , 80 ° 9 ′ 49 ″  E