Turfan
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Turfan [alt. Turpan] was a small Central Asian kingdom located along the northern track of the Silk Road through the Takla Makhan desert, in what is now the Chinese province of Xinjiang.[1] "This and other oasis kingdoms in Central Asia served as crucial stations in the transmission of Buddhism from India to China. Buddhism had a strong presence in Turfan from the seventh century through the fourteenth century, with important texts being translated, cave temples built, and works of art produced."[1]
The Turfan manuscripts were discovered by German researchers in a series of expeditions between 1902 and 1914. These are the oldest physical manuscripts of the Indian Buddhist tradition, dating from the fourth to fifth centuries CE.[1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. Turfan
Further reading
Turpan, Wikipedia- Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. Turfan
