With this the first Buddhist monastery in Khotan was erected in 211 B.C. Thus, during the Ashokan period, Buddhism emerged as a distinct religion with great potential for expansion.

In his writings, Polo noted Khotan’s wealth as an outpost on the Silk Road, the route that once carried trade between China and the Mediterranean world. On January 14, 1896, a caravan left from ...

In the process, Meinert will study questions such as: How did Buddhism spread in multi-cultural, multi-linguistic and multi-religious Central Asia? Which local cultures were influenced by Buddhist ...

The southern route around the Tarim Basin led to the Buddhist kingdom of Khotan (now in Xinjiang, China). Indian pothi leaves ...

Khotan is now in western China, but it was then a separate kingdom and the beating heart of the Silk Road, ... and it was found in a small abandoned Buddhist shrine in Khotan.

The painting comes from a Buddhist shrine in Khotan in Central Asia. This was just one of many oasis cities along the Silk Road. Silk and other goods were traded along this route from China to ...

According to historical records, around the fifth century, the Oddiyana tooth relic was brought to Khotan, an ancient central Asian Buddhist kingdom. In 475 AD, Faxian, a determined Chinese monk ...

Buddhism travelled from Gandhara to Khotan, Yarkand, Kashgar and west of China. It was during this period a large number of Buddhist monasteries and Stupas erected in the region and apparently ...