Kalai Kafirnigan
Kala-i Kafirnigan | |
  Shown within West and Central Asia  Kalai Kafirnigan (Bactria)  Kalai Kafirnigan (Tajikistan) | |
| Location | Tajikistan |
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| Coordinates | 37°53′51″N 68°15′46″E / 37.897429°N 68.262701°E |
| Type | Buddhist cloister |
Kalai Kafirnigan, also Kala-i Kafirnigan was a Buddhist temple in the region of Tokharistan (Classical Bactria), dated to the 7th-8th century CE. Buddhism in Tokharistan is said to have enjoyed a revival under the Western Turks (known as Tokhara Yabghus in Tokharistan). Several monasteries of Tokharistan dated to the 7th-8th centuries display beautiful Buddhist works of art, such as Kalai Kafirnigan, Ajina Tepe, Khisht Tepe or Kafyr Kala, around which Turkic nobility and populations followed Hinayana Buddhism.[1]
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![Buddhist mural from Kalai Kafirnigan, Museum of National Antiquities, Dushanbe, Tajikistan. 7th-early 8th century.[1][2]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Mural_from_Kalai_Kafirnigan%2C_Museum_of_National_Antiquities%2C_Dushanbe%2C_Tajikistan.jpg/200px-Mural_from_Kalai_Kafirnigan%2C_Museum_of_National_Antiquities%2C_Dushanbe%2C_Tajikistan.jpg)
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![Female devotee in Kalai Kafirnigan. 7th-early 8th century.[1]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Kalai_Kafirnigan_woman.jpg/200px-Kalai_Kafirnigan_woman.jpg)
Female devotee in Kalai Kafirnigan. 7th-early 8th century.[1] -
Mural of a male figure
![Buddhist mural from Kalai Kafirnigan, Museum of National Antiquities, Dushanbe, Tajikistan. 7th-early 8th century.[1][2]](/wiki/File:Mural_from_Kalai_Kafirnigan,_Museum_of_National_Antiquities,_Dushanbe,_Tajikistan.jpg)
![Female devotee in Kalai Kafirnigan. 7th-early 8th century.[1]](/wiki/File:Kalai_Kafirnigan_woman.jpg)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Baumer, Christoph. History of Central Asia, The: 4-volume set. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 203–204. ISBN 978-1-83860-868-2.
- ^ Litvinskij, B. A. (1981). "Kalai-Kafirnigan Problems in the Religion and Art of Early Mediaeval Tokharistan" (PDF). East and West. 31 (1/4): 35–66. ISSN 0012-8376.