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    The Kizil Caves (also romanized as Qizil or Qyzyl; Uyghur: قىزىل مىڭ ئۆي, lit. 'The Thousand Red Houses'; Chinese: 克孜尔千佛洞; lit. 'Kizil Caves of the Thousand...
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    The Kizil Caves lie about 70 kilometres (43 mi) northwest of Kucha and were included within the rich fourth-century kingdom of Kucha. The caves claim...
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    ruled, such as Sogdiana, Bamiyan or Kucha in the Tarim Basin (Kizil Caves, Kumtura Caves, Subashi reliquary). In these areas appear dignitaries with caftans...
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    Other famous sites nearby are the Kizilgaha caves, the Kizil Caves, Subashi Temple and the Simsim caves. 112 cave temples survive, dating from the fifth to...
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    Ajanta have also suggested in the Kizil Caves of the Tarim Basin, in particular in early caves such as the Peacock Cave. The rediscovery of ancient Indian...
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    The Mogao Caves, also known as the Thousand Buddha Grottoes or Caves of the Thousand Buddhas, form a system of 500 temples 25 km (16 mi) southeast of the...
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  • ruled, such as Sogdiana, Bamyan or Kucha in the Tarim Basin (Kizil Caves, Kumtura Caves, Subashi reliquary). In these areas appear dignitaries with caftans...
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  • Look up Kızıl or kızıl in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kizil may refer to: Bahar Kizil (born 1988), German singer-songwriter Kizil Caves, Buddhist...
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    Cave 69 of the Kizil Caves, with an inscription in Brahmi script on his halo: "Temple Constructed for the Benefit of Suvarnapuspa by His Son" — Cave 69...
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    for illustrations of the Morgan Bible from the 13th century. In the Kizil Caves in the Tarim Basin, knights wearing segmented pear-shaped helmets are...
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    www.iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 2019-03-28. Earliest paintings from Kizil Caves with Tocharian inscriptions, now carbon dated to AD 245-340, see Waugh...
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    swords with Hunnish cloisonné designs, can be seen in the "Cave of the Painters" at the Kizil Caves, and are dated to the 5th century CE. Lamellar helmets...
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    The Spitzer Manuscript is a collection of palm leaf fragments found in Kizil Caves, China. They are dated to about the 2nd century CE and are Sanskrit's...
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  • Buddha Caves Western Thousand Buddha Caves Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves Kumtura Thousand Buddha Caves Kizil Caves or Kizil Thousand Buddha Caves This...
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    the cave go back to the 5th century CE. Other famous sites nearby are the Ah-ai Grotto, Kizil Caves, Kumtura, Subashi Temple and the Simsim caves. Kizilgaha...
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    sites nearby are the Ah-ai Grotto, Kizilgaha caves, the Kumtura Caves, the Kizil Caves and the Simsim caves. These sites and others along the Silk Road...
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  • in the Mahabharata. In the 2nd-century CE Spitzer Manuscript found in Kizil Caves, China, which includes a table of contents of the Mahabharata, there...
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    Grotto Mogao Caves Kizil Caves Tianlongshan Grottoes Silk Road transmission of Buddhism German Turfan expeditions "Bizaklik Thousand Buddha Caves". travelchinaguide...
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    Bulayïq Kucha Kizil Caves Kizilgaha caves Kumtura Caves Subashi Temple Dunhuang Miran Niya Rawak Mogao Caves Tumshuq Bezeklik Caves Dunhuang Caves Loulan Khotan...
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    half of the 6th century CE. He appears in a mural of the Maya Cave of the Kizil Caves, with his wife Svayamprabhā, accompanied by two monks and other...
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  • Jiangzhou Cave System Jiguan Cave Kizil Caves Kumtura Caves Lobster Cave Longgu Cave Longyou Caves Luobi Cave Macaque Cave Reed Flute Cave San Wang Dong...
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    form of a pile of more than 1,000 palm leaf fragments in the Ming-oi, Kizil Caves, China during the third Turfan expedition headed by Albert Grünwedel...
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    Sogdian style castle." Williams et al. 2018. Kubik, Adam (2018). "The Kizil Caves as an terminus post quem of the Central and Western Asiatic pear-shape...
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    is a fragment of a love poem in Tocharian B (manuscript B-496, found in Kizil): Language families and languages Tocharians Tocharian and Indo-European...
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    CE). In this context, parallels have been drawn with the figures from Kizil Caves in Chinese Turkestan, which seem to wear broadly similar clothing. The...
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    clothing worn by the Tocharians. A series of murals from Kizil, Kizilgaha and Kumtura caves depicting Kuchean royalties, knights, swordsmen and donors...
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    Mural from Cave 198, Kizil Caves, 6th century CE...
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    ISBN 81-7646-353-1. Santoro, Arcangela (2003). "GANDHĀRA AND KIZIL: THE BUDDHA'S LIFE IN THE STAIRS CAVE" (PDF). Rivista degli studi orientali. 77 (1/4): 117...
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    Bulayïq Kucha Kizil Caves Kizilgaha caves Kumtura Caves Subashi Temple Dunhuang Miran Niya Rawak Mogao Caves Tumshuq Bezeklik Caves Dunhuang Caves Loulan Khotan...
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    Other famous sites nearby are the Ah-ai Grotto, Kizil Caves, the Kizilgaha caves, the Kumtura Caves, and Subashi Temple. Howard, Angela; Vignato, Giuseppe...
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