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Kumtura Caves
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Description
Kumtura Caves
The
Kumtura Thousand Buddha Caves
(
Chinese
:
库
木
吐
喇
千
佛
洞
;
pinyin
:
Kùmùtǔlǎ Qiānfódòng
) (also Qumtura) is a Buddhist cave temple site in the
Autonomous Region
of
Xinjiang
, China. The site is located some 25 km west of
Kucha
,
Kuqa County
, on the ancient
Silk Road
.
[1]
[2]
112 cave temples survive, dating from the fifth to the eleventh centuries. Damaged during the
Islamic conquests
and subsequently by occasional habitation after abandonment of the site, Kumtura was visited by a number of the early foreign expeditions to Chinese Central Asia, including the
1902 Ōtani expedition
,
Oldenburg
, and
Le Coq
.
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
The last
detached several wall paintings
and took them back to Berlin (now at the
Museum für Asiatische Kunst
).
[7]
References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumtura Caves
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