Site of the Buddhist temple in Shikshin

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The site of the Buddhist temples in Shikshin ( Chinese  七个 星 佛寺 遗址 , Pinyin Qīgèxīng Fósì yízhǐ ) in the old Karashahr region is a predominantly Tang-temporal complex of cave temples ( 锡克 沁 千佛洞 , Xīkèqìn Qiānfódòng , English Xikeqin-Buddha caves  - "Shikshin-thousand Buddha caves") and temple ruins in the Autonomous district Yanqi the Hui , about 30 km southwest of the seat of county government the greater community Yanqi (Karashahr) in the Uygur Autonomous region of Xinjiang in western China , on the northeast edge of the Tarim Basin . The site has been on the List of Monuments of the People's Republic of China (5-139) since 2001 .

literature

  • Chao, Huashan: "The Xigexing caves and temple ruins in Yanqi county, Xinjiang." In: Land Routes of the Silk Roads and the Cultural Exchanges between the East and West before the 10th century. (Desert Route Expedition International Seminar in Urumqi [Aug 19-21, 1990]). Beijing: New World Press 1996.
  • NV Diakonova: Šikšin: materialy Pervoj Russkoj Turkestanskoj ėkspedicii akademika SF Olʹdenburga, 1909–1910 gg. (Shikshin. Materials of the first Russian Turkestan expedition from SF Oldenburg , 1909–1910), Moskva: Izdat. Vostočnaja Literatura company, 1995.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ There are several spellings: Shikchin, Shikshin, Šikšin, Xikeqin, Xigexing, Qigexing.

Coordinates: 41 ° 56 ′ 43.8 "  N , 86 ° 20 ′ 2.8"  E