Bäzäklik Thousand Buddha Caves

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Uighur name
Latin (Yengi Yeziⱪ) : Bezəklik ming'өyi
other spellings: Bäzäklik, Bezeklik
Chinese name
Abbreviation : 柏孜克里 千佛洞
Transcription in Pinyin : Bózīkèlǐ qiānfódòng
Wade-Giles transcription : Po-tzŭ-k'o-li
Bäzäklik caves

The Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves (caves also Bezeklik, chin. Bozikeli Qianfodong柏孜克里克千佛洞) are a complex of Buddhist cave temples from the 5th to 9th centuries by the ancient people of the Tocharer was built .

location

The site is located 30 km east of the city of Turpan (Turfan) and 50 km west of Shanshan ( Loulan ) in the northeast of the Taklamakan Desert near the ruins of Gaochang , Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region , China .

The grottos are located at the top of a steep wall in the rock on the west side of the Mutou Valley below the Flaming Mountains .

meaning

Significant Buddhist wall paintings can be seen in the approximately 60 well-preserved caves .

At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, the place was the destination of German ( Albert von Le Coq ), English ( Aurel Stein ), Japanese and Russian expeditions.

The site was added to the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China in Xinjiang (2-14) in 1982.

See also

Web links

Commons : Bäzäklik Thousand Buddha Caves  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Internet Archive: The Tarim mummies: ancient China and the mystery of the earliest peoples from the West . New York, NY: Thames & Hudson, 2000 (archive.org [accessed November 23, 2019]).

Coordinates: 42 ° 57 ′ 19.9 ″  N , 89 ° 32 ′ 22.6 ″  E