Thousand Buddha Caves of Kumtura
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| Location: | County Kuqa in the administrative district of Aksu in Xinjiang ( China ) | |
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41 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ N , 82 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Thousand Buddha Caves of Kumtura (Qumtura) ( Chinese 库 木 吐 喇 千佛洞 , Pinyin Kùmùtǔlā Qiānfódòng , English Kumtura Thousand Buddha Caves ) in the district of Kuqa (also Kucha, Kutscha etc., 库车 县 ) in the Uyghur Autonomous Region Xinjiang is 25 km west of Kuqa on the left bank of the Muzart River ( Weihe ).
The earliest were dug in the 4th century. They are famous for their ancient Qiuci (Kucha) style Buddhist murals .
A distinction is made between three construction phases in the construction of the caves: 5th – 7th. Century, 8th – 9th centuries and 10. – 11. Century.
The caves have been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (1-42) since 1961 and UNESCO has provided funds for their restoration.
At the beginning of the 20th century they were visited by Japanese, German, Russian and French expeditions.
literature
- Zhongguo shiku : Kumutula shiku [Kumutula Rock Caves], Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe 1985
- Zhongguo da baike quanshu : Kaoguxue [Great Chinese Encyclopedia: Volume Archeology]. Beijing: Zhongguo da baike quanshu chubanshe, 1986
- Yan Shen: " Conventional Donor Custome of Cave 79 of Kumtura Grottoes ", Asian Social Science , Vol. 5, No. January 1, 2009
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.chinaculturemall.com/crafts/article.aspx?id=761 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Zhongguo da baike quanshu: Kaoguxue, p. 262
- ↑ http://www.unesco.emb-japan.go.jp/htm/kumtura.htm Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 14, 2006 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.
