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″N68°15′46″E/ 37.897429°N 68.262701°E |
| Type | Buddhist cloister |
Kalai Kafirnigan,alsoKala-i Kafirniganwas a Buddhist temple in the region ofTokharistan(ClassicalBactria), dated to the 7th-8th century CE. Buddhism inTokharistanis said to have enjoyed a revival under theWestern Turks(known asTokhara Yabghusin 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 orKafyr Kala,around which Turkic nobility and populations followedHinayanaBuddhism.[1]
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![Buddhist mural from Kalai Kafirnigan, Museum of National Antiquities, Dushanbe, Tajikistan. 7th-early 8th century.[1][2]](https://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]](https://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]](/translate/en.wikipedia.org?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AMural_from_Kalai_Kafirnigan%2C_Museum_of_National_Antiquities%2C_Dushanbe%2C_Tajikistan.jpg&t=vi)
![Female devotee in Kalai Kafirnigan. 7th-early 8th century.[1]](/translate/en.wikipedia.org?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AKalai_Kafirnigan_woman.jpg&t=vi)
References[edit]
- ^abcBaumer, Christoph.History of Central Asia, The: 4-volume set.Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 203–204.ISBN978-1-83860-868-2.
- ^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.ISSN0012-8376.